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Dynamic expressions
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Choosing referring expressions
… the use of pronouns (relative to more explicit expressions) is affected by the referent’s salience in the prior linguistic context, but much less is known about how non-linguistic context affects the referent’s salience and the choice of expression. Recent research has suggested that the …
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Seismic Expressions of Paleokarst
… and below by Miss Lime indicate two seismic expressions are probable: a strong negative amplitude when Chat thickness is above tuning and a weak or non-existent amplitude associated with small impedance contrast between Chat and overlying Pennsylvanian shale. This analysis suggests both the …
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Paired Expressions in Homer
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Embodied multimodal referring expressions generation
… SCMRE, a situated corpus of multimodal referring expressions (MREs) intended for training generative AI systems in multimodal IVA, focusing on multimodal referring expressions. Our contributions include: 1) Developing an IVA platform that interprets human multimodal instructions and responds with …
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Living expressions: An initial understanDing
Living Expressions is a term that was created to describe a unique, formalized process of interpersonal communication, in which individuals share often unexpressed feelings of appreciation with one another. This qualitative study explored a single case, single process event, based on interviews …
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Child acquisition of referring expressions
Children, like adults, use referring expressions to refer to specific objects, events, or people. Research has provided insights into how children use referring expressions and the appearance of forms developmentally (Radford, 1990; Abu-Akel, et al., 2004; Pine & Lieven, 1997). This study examined …
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Indexical Expressions: Syntax and Context
<p>Indexicals are those expressions in natural language–such as I, you, here, and now–whose reference varies with occasion of use, picking out individuals in virtue of their contextual roles. Although analyses of the semantics of indexicals have been advanced–most notably by Kaplan–their syntax has …
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Semantic representations for spatial expressions
… or even pronouns (here, there). In English, expressions containing prepositional phrases representing spatial relations such as inclusion, contact, or contiguity are prime examples of spatial expressions. The meaning expressed by a spatial preposition indicates how its arguments physically …
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Recognition of handwritten mathematical expressions
… the recognition of handwritten mathematical expressions has received an increasing amount of attention in pattern recognition research. The diversity of approaches to the problem and the lack of a commercially viable system, however, indicate that there is still much research to be done in …
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Automatic Creation of Evocative Witty Expressions
… and memorable, based on variations of well-known expressions, using the optimal innovation hypothesis as a frame of reference. In particular, these witty expressions can be used for evoking a given concept, improving its memorability, or for other pragmatic goals.
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Student Expressions of Aesthetic Learning Experiences
… been applied broadly within education, student expressions of such experiences have been neglected. This poses a problem of equity both ethically in that the suppression of student voice is perpetuated and pragmatically in that the range and form of aesthetic learning expressed by students is …
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Communication error detection using facial expressions
… for detecting communication errors using facial expressions during the system's turn. This is useful as it detects communication problems before the user speaks a reply. To detect communication problems accurately and efficiently we develop novel extensions to hidden-state discriminative methods. …
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An expectation model of referring expressions
… EMRE, an expectation-based model of referring expressions. EMRE is proposed as a model of non-syntactic dependencies - in particular, discourse-level semantic dependencies that bridge sentence gaps. These include but are not limited to anaphora (references to noun phrases in previous sentences) …
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Intervening to Increase Expressions of Gratitude
… interventions to increase the frequency of expressions of gratitude by psychology students in two classes of a psychology course at a large university in southwest Virginia. Studies 1 and 4 included signing a paper when declaring an intention to express gratitude to people behaving …
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Automatic identification and translation of multiword expressions
Multiword Expressions (MWEs) belong to a class of phraseological phenomena that is ubiquitous in the study of language. They are heterogeneous lexical items consisting of more than one word and feature lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic idiosyncrasies. Scholarly research on MWEs benefits …
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Aesthetic expressions: punk dress and the workplace.
… These individuals negotiate between aesthetic expressions of their subcultural identity and the role they believe they are expected to play at work. An online survey with 208 individual participants identified interview candidates. Participant suitability was based on fulltime employment, …
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The function of pronominal expressions in Puxian
… to examine aspects of the grammar of pronominal expressions in Puxian, focusing especially on three prominent issues in the linguistic literature, viz. impersonality, reflexive markings and Person effects on linearization. The investigation of impersonality has been built on the latest …
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