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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Lexicons"”.
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The Production and Comprehension Lexicons: What Is Shared and What Is Not
One of the long-standing questions in psycholinguistics has been the relationship between comprehension and production. Theories of language production and comprehension typically propose that word retrieval involves the selection of at least two levels of lexical information, semantic …
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The representation of clitics in the lexicons of English-speaking learners of French
… of French clitics as they are represented in the lexicons of English-speaking students of French. The study involved 198 adult learners of French at a small, private American university. Subjects were drawn from intact groups of students enrolled in first, second, third and fourth semester French. …
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A semic-automatic system for the syllabification and stress assignment of large lexicons
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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On the Optimality of the Lexicon
… impact of such a pressure in natural languages' lexicons. We investigate the existence of this pressure by (i) estimating what optimal word lengths would be using coding theory, (ii) proposing pressure-free baselines and estimating their word lengths, and then (iii) comparing natural lexicons to …
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Representation and learning schemes for argument stance mining.
… a stance lexicon, we find that optimising such lexicons using an empirical risk minimisation framework allows us to regularise them to a higher degree than competing probabilistic techniques, which helps us learn better lexicons from noisy data. We also conclude that adding local context …
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Pronunciation learning for automatic speech recognition
… that uses speech data to learn stochastic lexicons, thereby taking a step towards alleviating the need for manual intervention and automnatically learning high-quality baseform pronunciations for words. We test our model on a variety of domains: an isolated-word telephone speech corpus, a …
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Acquiring minimalist grammars via constraint satisfaction
… then developed that (a) map Minimalist Grammar lexicons to be Collections of Constraints, (b) map Collections of Constraints to Minimalist Grammar lexicons and (c) may combine two or more Collections of Constraints into a single Collection of Constraints. The thesis then demonstrates via a …
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Contextual lexicon-based sentiment analysis for social media.
… for sentiment analysis. Typically, sentiment lexicons that capture term-sentiment association knowledge are commonly used to develop sentiment analysis systems. However, the nature of social media content calls for analysis methods and knowledge sources that are better able to adapt to …
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Domain-specific lexicon generation for emotion detection from text.
… due to reliance on general purpose emotion lexicons that have static vocabulary and sentiment lexicons that can only interpret emotions coarsely. Thus emotion detection from text calls for methods and knowledge resources that can deal with challenges such as dynamic and informal vocabulary, …
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The Lexicon is Shaped for Incremental Processing in a Noisy Channel
… and there is a great deal of evidence that the lexicons of the world’s languages are structured to be similar to abstract, maximally efficient communicative codes (e.g., Zipf 1935; Ferrer-i Cancho and Solé 2003; Piantadosi et al. 2009, 2011; Mahowald et al. 2018. In this dissertation, I will …
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Data-Driven Language Understanding for Spoken Dialogue Systems
… to automatically induce domain-specific semantic lexicons, which are typically hand-crafted to handle lexical variation and account for a plethora of system failure modes. The results highlight the deficiencies of distributional word vectors which must be overcome to make them useful for …
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THE LATERALIZATION OF THE WORD FREQUENCY EFFECT
… results would support proposals of multiple lexicons in lexical retrieval models. The first was a small-n experiment varying visual angle of presentation, signal to noise ratios, visual field and word class (noun/verb) while using high frequency word and nonword items. The purpose of this …
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Cognitive and communicative pressures in natural language
… demands strongly influence the structure of the lexicons of natural languages. It is known that words in natural language are distributed such that shorter words are more frequent and occur after more predictive contexts. I provide evidence that, at least in part, this pattern is driven by word …
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Eish - when to use -ish-: a study in the verbalization of English lexical items in spoken Xhosa
… incorporate verbs of English origin into their lexicons with a specific focus on the -ish- suffix. The study deals with historical treatments of this phenomenon and debates its relevance and applicability to current scholarship on lexical borrowing. To ensure a wide range of data sources I used …
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Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, and the Motivations for Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism
… 6, both named after influential Latin language lexicons, articulates among other things a response to his one-time headmaster, the education-reformer Richard Mulcaster, who advocated lexicography as a model activity for shaping official English. This late attention to lexicons stems from an …
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An ethnographic and socio-semantic analysis of lexis among working-class Afrikaans-speaking coloured adolescent and young adult males in the Cape Peninsula, 1963-1990
… communal identities and corresponding lexicons within the working-class dialect: the respectable, disreputable, delinquent and outcast, constituting a religio-political hierarchy construed in terms of cosmically and socially ordained intracommunal stratification, social status, …
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Autonomous learning of action-word semantics in a humanoid robot
… a method for online learning of word and action lexicons based on the hidden Markov model. The model is then evaluated through action-word learning experiments implemented on a humanoid robot.
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Metaphoric perspective theory: Language to action for the self, individuals, communities, and culture
… at scholarly understanding to postmodern lexicons of metaphor theory in two-dozen disciplines, the understanding of this lingual phenomenon has evolved and grown over arguably the entire length of human history. Communication scholars note the presence and prevalence of tropic language in …
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Unsupervised Morphological Word Clustering
… is tested on the CELEX English, German and Dutch lexicons and its performance is evaluated against the set of conflation classes extracted from the CELEX morphological database (Baayen, et al., 1993). The system performance is compared to that of other systems: Morfessor (Creutz and Lagus, 2005), …
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Presenza e significato della κίνησις nelle Enneadi di Plotino
… in Plotinus' Enneads. The employment of the lexicons has allowed me to pick up a catalog of around eight hundred occurrences of the term κίνησις. I have identified two tematic areas for the use of κίνησις, one regarding the sensible reality, the other the intelligible reality. In the first …
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