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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"encyclopedic knowledge"”.
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Extraction and representation of encyclopedic knowledge from a dictionary
… theory to the representation of world or encyclopedic knowledge. The tool is designed to extract such knowledge from dictionary entries and to represent it in a network of frames. An application needing encyclopedic knowledge would rely on some separate utility program to draw information …
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English Goal Infinitives
… of goal, and therefore need not be stipulated. Knowledge of goal relations is part of the encyclopedic knowledge that language users acquire through observation of situations. Given that the grammar represents a speaker's knowledge of a language, an analysis in which constraints on modified …
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Human-competitive automatic topic indexing
… on statistical, semantic, domain-specific and encyclopedic knowledge. They are combined using a machine learning algorithm that models human indexing behavior from examples. This approach is evaluated by comparing automatically generated topics to those assigned by professional indexers, and by …
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Homer and the Art of Performative Technical Communication
… was used in primary oral societies as encyclopedic knowledge, one that was taught from the primary educators of early Hellas—the poets—to their audiences. The results of this study suggest that the boundaries of the discourse map of technical communication be expanded to include not …
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La representación de la variación contextual mediante definiciones terminológicas flexible
… resource as well as a privileged medium for knowledge representation since they offer a direct natural-language explanation of the content of a concept. The adequacy of the definitions thus largely determines the overall usefulness of the terminological resource for the user. This study has …
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The Trouble with Knowing: Wikipedian consensus and the political design of encyclopedic media
… negotiate the middle ground between incompatible knowledge systems while also performing as dream machines that explore the political outlines of an enlightened society. Building upon the insights from critical feminist theory, media archaeology, and science and technology studies, the …
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Stakeholders' voices : A socio-cultural approach to describing and extending an understanding of primary education in Mauritius
… instructional methods, the valuing of encyclopedic knowledge, hard work and uniformity and the practices of 'ability privileging' and 'differential treatment' of pupils as prominent characteristics of Mauritian primary education. They also revealed a polarisation between the 'official' …
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Exploiting knowledge in NLP
… by expressions such as ""we present a knowledge-lean approach"", which have been traditionally viewed as a positive statement, one that will help papers get into top conferences. This thesis suggests that it is essential to use knowledge in NLP, proposes several ways of doing it, and …