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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"paraphrase"”.
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Diagnosing Reading strategies: Paraphrase Recognition
<p>Paraphrase recognition is a form of natural language processing used in tutoring, question answering, and information retrieval systems. The context of the present work is an automated reading strategy trainer called iSTART (Interactive Strategy Trainer for Active Reading and Thinking). The …
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Fifth-century CE Greek Christian verse paraphrase
… contextualising the production of verse paraphrases within its contemporary context and, specifically, the debates about the role of classical culture in a Christian ideology, this thesis focuses on three texts that were all written around the middle of the fifth century: the Metaphrasis …
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Inner healing : a contemporary and personal paraphrase of Augustine's soul-searching
The Confessions of Augustine was a dual conversation--on the one side, between Augustine and God; on the other between Augustine and his reader. This thesis seeks to make a connection to the inner-struggles openly exposed by St. Augustine in his writing Confessions and the inner-struggles we (and I …
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"Toward a New Edition of Themistius' Paraphrase of Aristotle's ""De Anima"""
Providing a new edition of Themistius' paraphrase of the de Anima is my ultimate objective. However, given the limited scope of a dissertation, I have restricted myself to an examination of only a portion of the paraphrase. The segment of the text under consideration, 3.4--3.8, is that which deals …
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Generating Paraphrases with Greater Variation Using Syntactic Phrases
Given a sentence, a paraphrase generation system produces a sentence that says the same thing but usually in a different way. The paraphrase generation problem can be formulated in the machine translation paradigm; instead of translation of English to a foreign language, the system translates an …
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Data Augmentation with Seq2Seq Models
Paraphrase sparsity is an issue that complicates the training process of question answering systems: syntactically diverse but semantically equivalent sentences can have significant disparities in predicted output probabilities. We propose a method for generating an augmented paraphrase corpus for …
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Merging corpus linguistics and collaborative knowledge construction
… discourse as a self-referential system that uses paraphrase as a key device to construct new knowledge. Knowledge is thus seen as the result of collaboration between the members of a discourse community. The thesis presents, in great detail, case studies of asynchronous computer-mediated …
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Franz Schubert’s Deutsches Stabat Mater, D. 383: Historical background and musical accessibility
… Latin text. The text Schubert uses is a German paraphrase of the Latin Sequence contrived by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) to allow Pergolesi’s Monumental setting to be sung in German during Protestant services. The text was also used by Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804) in his …
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Excavating
… I hope to tap into the common human yearning, to paraphrase my poem "The Fat Woman, " to be swallowed up by something, anything, bigger than ourselves.
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Psalm 108’s Canonical Placement and Use of Earlier Psalms
… specific superscription, its quotation and paraphrase of earlier psalmic material (Pss 57 and 60), and its canonical placement in Book V of the Psalter. Chapter 1 presents this study’s thesis along with three undergirding assumptions: (1) the Psalter is a book; (2) individual psalms should …
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Multilingual writers' unintentional plagiarism: action research in college composition
… given reading material and asked to cite and to paraphrase sentences and paragraphs. The data was analyzed, and the raters identified five categories of unintentional plagiarism. The results suggest that students, regardless of their academic and cultural history, need maximum opportunities to …
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Occurrence of plagiarism in the writing of international graduate business students and its detection by SafeAssign
… verbatim copying from sources and inappropriate paraphrase. Students also experienced significant challenges in following APA style conventions and made errors in punctuation and sentence structure when formatting in-text citations. An analysis of SafeAssign reports indicates that the percentage …
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Developmental Differences in Students’ Ability to Detect Underlying Structural Ambiguity
… However, the incidental findings showed that the paraphrase task was performed more successfully than the completion task. Also, the subjects recognized the gerund-type ambiguity more successfully than the participle-type ambiguity. These findings led the researcher to conclude that the subjects' …
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Liquid cinema and the re-creation of thought: towards a philosophy of filmind
… uniquely cinematic means (the ‘problem of paraphrase’). This literature review concludes by presenting and discussing filmosophy and its major tenets as both an appropriate extension of the current canon, and as a potentially productive new paradigm through which both film and philosophy …
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The Utility of Mathematical Symbols
… One way this can be accomplished is through a paraphrase interpretation of real number symbols where the symbols are taken to refer directly to the things in the world real numbers are supposed to represent. A platonist account of structural correspondence between structures of real numbers and …
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Piano and popular culture: how Snow White and Charlie Brown made it to the concert hall
… works from Mozart’s Rondo Alla Turca to Liszt’s paraphrase of Rigoletto, not to mention the myriad themes and variations from various composers drawing on popular melodies from folk songs to operas. Composers’ fascination with popular culture has only increased with the passage of time. This …
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USE OF LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE MATCHING AND RETRIEVAL IN TRANSLATION MEMORY
… retrieval. Two efficient approaches which use a paraphrase database to improve translation memory matching and retrieval are presented. Both automatic and human evaluations are conducted. The results on both evaluations show that paraphrasing improves matching and retrieval. An approach based on …
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Making the Significant Significant: A Discourse Analysis Examining the Teacher's Role in Negotiating Meaning of Text with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
… reproduction of meaning (including repetition, paraphrase, and citation), prosodic devices, questions, overt attention, life connection, and adjective labeling. In a macro level of analysis, I examine the content of the meanings the teacher negotiated, and find that situated meanings in her …
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paperPublics
… is formed as a set of texts that continually paraphrase, cite and indicate each other. The order given to the texts summarised below marks one possible passage through this research. It is an indicative choreography that welcomes improvisation and the as yet unsaid and unseen. Not aspiring to …
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Opus Ignotum
… oblivious to its disastrous potentiality, to paraphrase Chuck McGill, like chimps with machine guns. Language scares. Language intimidates. It stokes our most flammable insecurities, enforces self-exclusion, delimits thought, expression, and communication. Its very fumes intoxicate; a …
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