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Showing 1 to 20 of 361 for “"lexicon"”.
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The Lexicon Graph Model : a generic model for multimodal lexicon development
Das Lexicon Graph Model stellt ein Modell für Lexika dar, die korpusbasiert sein können und multimodale Informationen enthalten. Hierbei wird die Perspektive der Lexikontheorie eingenommen, wobei die zugrundeliegenden Datenstrukturen sowohl vom Lexikon als auch von Annotationen betrachtet werden. …
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On deriving the lexicon
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1985.
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Phonetics Information Base and Lexicon
In this dissertation, I investigate the linguistic and technological challenges involved in creating a cross-linguistic data set to undertake phonological typology. I then address the question of whether more sophisticated, knowledge-based approaches to data modeling, coupled with a broad …
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Communicative efficiency in the lexicon
… and the global organization of the phonological lexicon as a whole facilitate the efficient communication of intended messages from speaker to listener. Specifically, I show that the occurrence probabilities of different grammatical structures render natural language phonology an efficient code …
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A lexicon for Camera Obscura
… and easier to grasp than reality itself. A Lexicon for Camera Obscura is a survey of facts and lore about the author's use-of camera obscura as a metaphorical vehicle to comment about reality.
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On the Optimality of the Lexicon
… impact of such a pressure in natural languages' lexicons. We investigate the existence of this pressure by (i) estimating what optimal word lengths would be using coding theory, (ii) proposing pressure-free baselines and estimating their word lengths, and then (iii) comparing natural lexicons to …
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On the organization of the lexicon.
Thesis. 1980. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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Contextual lexicon-based sentiment analysis for social media.
… for sentiment analysis. Typically, sentiment lexicons that capture term-sentiment association knowledge are commonly used to develop sentiment analysis systems. However, the nature of social media content calls for analysis methods and knowledge sources that are better able to adapt to …
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Lexicon of bedrock stratigraphic names of North Dakota
<p>This lexicon of bedrock stratigraphic names of North Dakota consists of a general definition of each unit as well as the history of stratigraphic nomenclature, An attempt was made to include all units for North Dakota whether formally or informally named, or cur rently being used in the state. …
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Towards an Integrated Model of the Mental Lexicon
… been proposed attempting to describe the mental lexicon-the abstract organization of words in the human mind. Numerous studies have shown that by representing the mental lexicon as a network, where nodes represent words and edges connect similar words using a metric based on some word feature, a …
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Towards multilingual lexicon discovery from visually grounded speech
In this thesis, we present a method for the discovery of word-like units and their approximate translations from visually grounded speech across multiple languages. We first train a neural network model to map images and their spoken audio captions in both English and Hindi to a shared, multimodal …
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On the relationship of the lexicon to syntax
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1982.
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Semantic Representation of L2 Lexicon in Japanese University Students
In a series of studies using semantic relatedness judgment response times, Jiang (2000, 2002, 2004a) has claimed that L2 lexical entries fossilize with their equivalent L1 content or something very close to it. In another study using a more productive test of lexical knowledge (Jiang 2004b), …
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Domain-specific lexicon generation for emotion detection from text.
… due to reliance on general purpose emotion lexicons that have static vocabulary and sentiment lexicons that can only interpret emotions coarsely. Thus emotion detection from text calls for methods and knowledge resources that can deal with challenges such as dynamic and informal vocabulary, …
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Language as Microaggression: the New Lexicon of American Racism
There are countless occasions where marginalized groups bear witness to language-based discriminatory practices. Language, as defined here, is a species of symbolism. After reviewing the sociological literature, the term "microaggressions" appears to best describe the phenomena in its everyday …
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Systematic Polysemy in Arabic: A Generative Lexicon-based Account
… applicability of Pustejovsky’s (1995) Generative Lexicon (the GL) in accounting for the various Arabic data on polysemy. The study found that nearly every regular polysemous pattern observed in English was also present in Arabic, albeit with a few attested differences. For example, the regular …
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Deverbal nominals in Kiswahili: Underspecification morphology and the lexicon
This study provides an explicit account of the lexical entries and rules required to generate five common types of Kiswahili nouns based on verbal roots and stems, as illustrated by the data below, all derived from -kata 'cut'. (UNFORMATTED TABLE OR EQUATION …
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Data-Efficient Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Pretrained Language Models
… specifically focuses on the task of Bilingual Lexicon Induction (BLI) and proposes a series of innovative data-efficient BLI approaches aimed at automatically inducing high-quality bilingual dictionaries in low-data scenarios, thereby bridging the lexical gaps between languages. While previous …
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Lexicon and Poetic Meaning in the Poetry of German Bleiberg
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