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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"aboutness"”.
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Case Grammar And Functional Relations In Aboutness Recognition And Relevance Decision-making In The Bibliographic Retrieval Environment
… determine whether one definition of relevance, 'aboutness', can be based, at least in part, on textual characteristics of queries and abstracts. To this end, this study was conducted to determine to what extent a set of functional relations based on Fillmore's case grammar theory could be used to …
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The Semantics of Russian 'About' Prepositions: A Corpus-Based Study
… prepositions occur—associated with the four ‘aboutness’ prepositions, in sample texts written between 1890 and 2009, from the Russian National Corpus. The quantitative study consists of Fisher’s Exact tests performed on approximately 7,000 tokens (which consist of argument phrases with the …
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Understanding and Interpreting Japanese NP1 WA NP2 DA Sentences: Mechanism and Contextual Factors
… results also reveal a new understanding of the 'aboutness' relation, a notion that accounts for the non-syntactic connections between the topic and the predicate. Specifically, in the process of understanding NP1 wa NP2 da sentences, establishing an 'aboutness' relation refers to the process of …
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Extraction from relative clauses in Swedish
… in the clause, the preposed phrase is often an aboutness topic. It can also be the information focus of the sentence, but not a scene-setter. An in-depth study of extraction of both adjuncts and arguments from RCs shows that A ́-movement from RCs is more restricted than A ́-movement in the local …
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Problems of the 'Political' in British Avant-Garde Poetry and Poetics, 2003-2012
… poetic statements, and the question of ‘aboutness’.
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Negotiation-as-active-knowing: an approach evolved from relational art practice.
… Shotter (2005) differentiates between aboutness-thinking and withness-thinking. Kester (2011) describes the dynamic between the one and the many in the reciprocal creative labour of collaborative art practice. This literature yields three core qualities that are relevant to …
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A Comparison of Descriptive Tagging Practices by Library, Archive, and Museum Professionals Using an Inter-Indexing Consistency Approach
… (2) the digital surrogate; (3) the objects aboutness; (4) the technique and materials used to make the physical object, and; (5) written text. Data analysis also indicates there was a significant difference between means in the total number of descriptive tags and in the number of exact …
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Maʿnā, Shuʿūr and Mental Existence: Avicenna’s Theory of Intentionality
… ‘the existential account of intentionality’. Aboutness, for Avicenna, is primarily a feature of a fundamental way of existence. Third, I explore whether Avicenna’s existential account of intentionality is committed to a naturalistic or phenomenal consciousness approach. I argue that neither …
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Using Web Archives to Enrich the Live Web Experience Through Storytelling
… archived copies of a page) based on the page’s aboutness. Based on a dynamic slicing algorithm, we divide the collection and cluster the pages in each slice. We then select the best representative page from each cluster based on different quality metrics (e.g., the replay quality, and the …
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Out of Order
'Out of Order' proposes that the perception of a work’s expression is the sense of its disorder. The dissertation proceeds from theory to history, and analysis, before bringing the argument to bear with regards to contemporary practice. The theory draws heavily on the work of Harold Bloom (ch. 2). …