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Showing 1 to 20 of 614 for “"grounding"”.
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Grounding Techne
"Technê is the ancient Greek word for ""both a practical skill and for the systematic knowledge or experience which underlies it"" (Aristotle and Tarán, 2000). Landscape architects have delegated the tool-making aspects of the technê of landscape design to others. By not taking full responsibility …
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Grounding pluralism
My dissertation consists of a series of papers on grounding pluralism, the broad view that there are multiple kinds of metaphysical grounding relations. Specifically, I argue that there are three species of grounding: why-grounding (which tells us why things are the case), how-grounding (which …
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Grounding language in events
Broadcast video and virtual environments are just two of the growing number of domains in which language is embedded in multiple modalities of rich non-linguistic information. Applications for such multimodal domains are often based on traditional natural language processing techniques that ignore …
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Grounding the theory of virtue.
… concepts have been granted a philosophical grounding and definitional framework upon which contemporary insights are built, and conflicting interests are reconciled. After recasting Aristotle's theory of virtue in this fashion, it is possible to direct this conceptual lens to the study of …
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Grounding interprofessional education in scholarship
i) Summary The 18 papers submitted are a cross-section of my publications in interprofessional education (IPE) since becoming actively engaged in that field in 1989. They comprise four themes. Each is updated and complemented by additional conceptualisations. Together, they point to the need to: …
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Grounding language in spatial routines
This thesis describes a spatial language understanding system based on a lexicon of words defined in terms of spatial routines. A spatial routine is a script composed from a set of primitive operations on sensor data, analogous to Ullman's visual routines. By finding a set of primitives that …
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Geospatial phrase grounding and disambiguation
… GeoCoder improves upon previous systems by grounding and disambiguating at the phrase level, interpreting parses with rules that match mid level structure patterns, expressing disambiguation heuristics in ontologies, and improving scalability by separating grounding from reasoning about …
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Are Grounding and Naturalness Related?
Grounding and Naturalness have been two important concepts in the Metaphysician's toolbox. They are both used to cash out the notion of fundamentality; that is, proponents of both concepts propose certain criteria for counting a property/fact as more fundamental than another. In this paper, I will …
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Grounding Architecture: Reading the Landscape
Ground, construction, light and weather: all of these elements when compounded create architecture. What is the built? What is the unbuilt? How can we merge the two? How can we architect a future where buildings are so contextually true to their site that the boundary of what was traditionally …
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Quaternary grounding-line fluctuations in Antarctica
… than today due to a dynamic instability at the grounding line, where the ice sheet goes afloat over seawater. However, there is to-date no conclusive evidence that the ice sheet has gone away in last few million years. Thus, characterizing and understanding the transitions between the glacial …
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The Grounding Of Effective Aristotelian Law
… to Aristotelian scholarship by articulating the grounding of effective law. The grounding of law is the reason for which law’s efficacy can be explained. Two popular contenders for this explanation are natural law theory and legal positivism; however, this paper will build off the work of Donald …
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An analysis of the grounding relation
This dissertation is an analysis of the grounding relation and its use in contemporary metaphysics. In the first three chapters, I consider the relation itself and its formal features. In the first chapter, I argue that there is such a grounding relation and that it is distinct from other …
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Indexical grounding for a mobile robot
… mobile robotics research. The theme of grounding-mapping linguistic references to the corresponding real-world entities-runs throughout our approach. After the parser simplifies linguistic symbols and structures, we must connect them to the basic concepts that they represent, and then to …
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Grounding linguistic analysis in control applications
This thesis addresses the problem of grounding linguistic analysis in control applications, such as automated maintenance of computers and game playing. We assume access to natural language documents that describe the desired behavior of a control algorithm, either via explicit step-by-step …
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Domain knowledge acquisition via language grounding
This thesis addresses the language grounding problem at the level of word relation extraction. We propose methods to acquire knowledge represented in the form of relations and utilize them in two domain applications, high-level planning in a complex virtual world and input parser generation from …
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Physical risk analysis of ship grounding
… an analysis on the factors contributing to groundings when ships transit in and out of ports. The study has been part of a three-year project on "Ship Transit Risk". By verifying the grounding location database generated during the first two years of the project against the United States …
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Grounding natural language with autonomous interaction
The resurgence of deep neural networks has resulted in impressive advances in natural language processing (NLP). This success, however, is contingent on access to large amounts of structured supervision, often manually constructed and unavailable for many applications and domains. In this thesis, I …
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On the Intelligibility of Grounding Autonomy
Metaphysical grounding has received a great deal of attention in the metaphysics literature within the last decade, offering what many see as an attractive theoretical alternative to other attempts to analyze the nature of fundamentality, e.g., dependence, supervenience, identity, conceptual …
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Concept and entity grounding using indirect supervision
… text. In this thesis, we consider the problem of grounding concepts and entities mentioned in text to one or more knowledge bases (KBs). A well-studied scenario of this problem is the one in which documents are given in English and the goal is to identify concept and entity mentions, and find the …
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Grounding for a computational model of place
… the user to recreate it from disparate data. By grounding a human place-sense for machine interpretation, new presentations of space can be presented that more accurately mirror human cognitive conceptions. By using measures of semantic distance a user can observe the proximity of place not only …
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