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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"language description"”.
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Dynamic analyses of malware
… on detection rates. AV labels offer an English-language description of the malware type, whereas it is found that using an assembly language description is more beneficial in malware triaging. Third, the machine learning techniques are applied to ransomware run-traces, which has not been …
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The automatic extraction of linguistic information from text corpora
… human researcher. Instead, methods from natural language processing are suggested as a way to analyse large amounts of corpus data without any human intervention. Human involvement hinders scalability and introduces a bias which prevents studies from being completely replicable. The fundamental …
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Concepts from unclear textual embeddings for text-to-image synthesis
… generating images based on a natural language description is a challenging problem with several key applications in the fields of retail, marketing, education and entertainment. In the last few years, some progress has been made in this direction specifically by using Generative …
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Natural language and spatial reasoning
Making systems that understand language has long been a dream of artificial intelligence. This thesis develops a model for understanding language about space and movement in realistic situations. The system understands language from two real-world domains: finding video clips that match a spatial …
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Using Qualitative Preferences to Guide Schedule Optimization
… that incorporates the subtleties of a natural language description. A human, given a purely quantitative encoding, may have difficulty intuiting trends or generating a plan without a computation aid. These discrepancies in priority interpretation may lead to a plan that only one class of agent …
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Simulation and mathematical notation of alarms unit for computer assisted resuscitation algorithm
… was written which relates the English language description of the alarms unit and the alarms finite state machine. The Design Oriented Verification and Evaluation [DOVE] tool [5] was used to prove that the extended finite state machine satisfies the mathematical specification. The …
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Weakly supervised learning from referring expression: Challenge and directions
… to perform segmentation with only image level language descriptions. Under our weakly supervised setting, we are only provided with input images and the corresponding sentence descriptions, without the pixel level labeling for each image as ground truth. In order to get supervision only from …
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Fostering Engagement for Students From Low-Socioeconomic Status Backgrounds Using Project-Based Mathematics
… a picture or model of the event, intuitive language description of this event and symbolic representation of the event (Moses, Kamii, Swap, & Howard, 1989). My research has examined if teaching through standards based projects promotes engagement for this population of students and indicates …
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Investigating the Impact of a Mentor Text Inquiry Approach to Narrative Writing Instruction on Attitude, Self-Efficacy, and Writing Processes of Fourth Grade Students in an Urban Elementary School
… Most students improved in the areas of language conventions and organization. The quality of content, including measures of figurative language, description, and dialogue, did not improve during the 6-week treatment period.
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A documentation and description of Yelmek
Yelmek is a small endangered language spoken in the south-west of New Guinea. It is a member of the Yelmek-Maklew family, a maximal clade language family, which has less than a thousand fluent speakers by my estimation. The present work is the first in-depth description of any variety of this …
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A documentation and description of Yelmek
Yelmek is a small endangered language spoken in the south-west of New Guinea. It is a member of the Yelmek-Maklew family, a maximal clade language family, which has less than a thousand fluent speakers by my estimation. The present work is the first in-depth description of any variety of this …
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Applications of relevance theory to the description of Galician and Spanish and to translation
… (as a theory of verbal communication) to the description of Galician and Spanish, and to translation. The phenomena studied within these areas are examined from the point of view of language use. This allows us to see them together as instantiations of language and thus as being theoretically …
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Unsupervised Learning of Morphology and the Languages of the World
This thesis presents work in two areas; Language Technology and Linguistic Typology. In the field of Language Technology, a specific problem is addressed: Can a computer extract a description of word conjugation in a natural language using only written text in the language? The problem is often …
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Purepecha Aspirated Consonants and Their Phonetic Variants
<p>This study describes phonetic realizations of aspirated phonemes in Purepecha [pua] from Azajo. The distribution of aspiration in Purepecha is limited to roots, a small number of spatial suffixes, one argument structure changing suffix, and clitics. Aspiration is never contrastive for …
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Searching for the semantic boundaries of the Japanese colour term 'ao'
The Japanese language has a colour term, 'ao' (or 'aoi'), which is usually referred to in bilingual dictionaries as being the equivalent of English 'blue'. Very often, however, it is used to describe things which English speakers would describe as being green. Granny Smith apples are 'ao', so are …
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Table of the Sun
<p>My creative thesis is a 48-page collection of poems titled Table of the Sun. Each poem is an intimate interrogation of varied ecological, romantic, and/or political disasters ranging from the Dakota Access Pipeline, cruel love, and Donald Trump. Some poems are reckonings, and others work to heal …
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Variation in Past Counterfactual Constructions
The two past counterfactual constructions under investigation in this study are the past counterfactual conditional (Type 3) and the past counterfactual <em>wish</em> complement clause (PCWCC). Each of these has both a standard and variant form. The verb in the standard forms is <em>had</em> + past …
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Defining Primary and Academic Discourse through Instructional Methods in a Single Junior High Classroom
… by Gee (1996) and focuses on his idea of Social languages.</p> <p>Using a microethnographic study, I develop the idea of how the teacher related to her students and how a single educator felt about the purpose of academic discourse in relation to the students she teaches in an urban junior high …
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The Sound Patterns of Kachok in the Context of Bahnaric and North-Bahnaric Studies
<p>This dissertation presents a description of the sound patterns of Kachok, Austroasiatic language spoken in northeastern Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia. The language is spoken by approximately 3000 people and is considered endangered (Simons & Fennig, 2018). Kachok is undocumented, and this …
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Komnzo: A language of Southern New Guinea
… provides an introduction to Komnzo, a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea. Komnzo is spoken by around 200 people in the village of Rouku and a couple of adjacent hamlets. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family, which is also known as the Morehead Upper-Maro group. …
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