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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Semantic structure"”.
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Semantic structure of personal information
… decisions are earliest, followed by access to semantic information, followed by naming. To date, the stage involved in semantic decisions has received least attention. Thus, relatively little is known about how we store personal semantic information. More research into this stage is necessary …
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Semantic structure and language development
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1990.
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The Contribution of Semantic Structure to Retrieval From Episodic Memory.
In his classic "7, plus or minus 2" paper, Miller (1956) introduced a term to describe what he thought people do when trying to memorize lists of words or numbers. He suggested that people "chunk" small bits of information into larger sets which bear some internal order or whose members share …
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Syntax and Semantics of Path -Denoting Particles and Prepositional Phrases in German
This thesis analyzes the syntactic and semantic structure of German path-denoting expressions in combination with motion verbs. Path-denoting expressions include path-denoting prepositional phrases and path particles (separable prefixes). Descriptions of syntactic and semantic structure are …
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Event structure and the encoding of arguments : the syntax of the Mandarin and English verb phrase
… but also explicates interactions at the syntax-semantics interface, clarifying the relationship between surface form, syntactic structure, and logical form. A theory of argument structure grounded in independently-motivated syntactic constraints, on the one hand, and the semantic structure of …
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Differences in the comprehensibility of testimony : a comparative study of magistrate's credibility judgements, witnesses' ethnicity and court role
… demonstrated that the well-formedness of the semantic structure of testimony determines its credibility. It has been shown that the comprehensibility of narrative discourse (testimony) is a reliable indicator of its well-formedness (Thorndyke, 1977). This study aims to explore the …
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Factor analytic study of semantic differentiel ratings by bilinguals
The present study reports data on the semantic differential for French-English balanced bilinguals. Two hundred and sixty-five concepts varying on the abstractness-concreteness continuum were rated on 18 scales by 100 Ss. Profiles of mean scale values for each concept, factor scores and the …
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The Effect Of Word Sociality On Word Recognition
<p>While research into the role of semantic structure in the recognition of written and spoken words has grown, it has not looked specifically at the role of conversational context on the recognition of isolated words. This study was a corpus-based and behavioral exploration of a new semantic …
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A uniform representation for visual concepts
… models can be composed according to a sentence's semantic structure to efficiently recognize events in videos. We use a discriminative variant of Baum-Welch to learn the parameters for our word models, and demonstrate that our approach is able to learn words capturing appearance, spatial …
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A General Purpose Semantic Parser Using FrameNet and WordNet®.
… it is easy for computers to parse the syntactic structure of natural language text. Does meaning have structure as well? If it has, how can we analyze the structure? Previous systems rely on a one-to-one correspondence between syntactic rules and semantic rules. But such systems can only be …
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Learning semantic structures from in-domain documents
Semantic analysis is a core area of natural language understanding that has typically focused on predicting domain-independent representations. However, such representations are unable to fully realize the rich diversity of technical content prevalent in a variety of specialized domains. Taking the …
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Mantis: A Screen Magnification Tool for Diagram Traversal
… of spatial context and of the diagram’s overall structure is oftentimes lost, as magnifiers can only magnify a fraction of the screen at any given time. So, while sighted users have both clarity and full context simultaneously, screen magnifier users often have to choose or split their attention …
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Selection of programming languages for structural engineering
This thesis presents the concepts of structured programming and illustrates how they can be used to develop efficient and reliable programs and aid in language selection. Topics are presented and used to compare several languages with each other rather than with some abstract ideal. Structured …
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Analyse Morphosemantique et Contextuelle Du Mot et du Terme en Langue Generale et en Terminologie.
… words and terms is due to the morphological structure which they both have, resulting from the use of linguistic mechanisms and resources in the formation of terms. With regard to the difference between words and terms, terminological arguments present terms as monosemic units as opposed to …
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Diagnosing Reading strategies: Paraphrase Recognition
… and developed a means of representing the semantic structure of sentences. Paraphrases are recognized by transforming sentences into this representation and comparing them. To construct a precise semantic representation, it is important to understand the meaning of prepositions. Adding …
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Natural Arabic language text understanding
… especially the constituent and the functional structures, and models the completeness of relationships among the contents of each structure internally, as well as among the structures externally. The introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, such as knowledge representation and …
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A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic analysis of deaf reading practices in China: case studies using teacher interviews and classroom observations
… script. Given the more visual and semantic structure of Chinese, would reading Chinese be easier for deaf students than a sound-based system like English? Deaf readers in China are nevertheless required to learn two very different scripts- one alphabetic (Pinyin) and another …
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A Unified Theory of Representation Learning: How Hidden Relationships Power Algorithms that can Learn without Labels
… describes how algorithms can learn and discover structure in complex systems, like natural images, audio, language, and video - without human input. This class of algorithms has the possibility to extend our own understanding of the world by helping us to see previously unseen patterns in nature …
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Verbal Learning and Memory in Adults with Mild, Moderate and Severe Closed Head Injury
… learning trials, head injured groups used semantic clustering less than controls, but after equating groups in terms of the number of possible clustered responses the mild and moderate did not differ from severe or control groups. After a delay, the severe group used semantic clustering …
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A grammar of negation in Tonga.
… investigate the morphological, syntactic and the semantic structure of negation in Tonga. The objectives of the study were; to analyze the morphology of negation in Tonga, to examine the syntactic distribution and some semantic aspects of negation in Tonga. In particular, the study examined …
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