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Choosing referring expressions
… interference affects the choice of referring expressions. Pronouns are less frequent when discourse entities are similar in terms of their inherent conceptual properties as well as extrinsic properties, suggesting that the more similar the competitor to the referent, the stronger the …
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Embodied multimodal referring expressions generation
… introduce SCMRE, a situated corpus of multimodal referring expressions (MREs) intended for training generative AI systems in multimodal IVA, focusing on multimodal referring expressions. Our contributions include: 1) Developing an IVA platform that interprets human multimodal instructions and …
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Child acquisition of referring expressions
Children, like adults, use referring expressions to refer to specific objects, events, or people. Research has provided insights into how children use referring expressions and the appearance of forms developmentally (Radford, 1990; Abu-Akel, et al., 2004; Pine & Lieven, 1997). This study examined …
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Cardiologists referring patients for periodontal evaluation
<p>"The association of periodontal disease and atherosclerotic vascular disease is proven in current scientific literature, however there is no empirical evidence that suggests cardiologists recognize this association or collaborate with dentists to address this association for patients. This study …
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An expectation model of referring expressions
… introduces EMRE, an expectation-based model of referring expressions. EMRE is proposed as a model of non-syntactic dependencies - in particular, discourse-level semantic dependencies that bridge sentence gaps. These include but are not limited to anaphora (references to noun phrases in previous …
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Referring expressions in Chinese and English discourse
… attempts to account for the use of such referring expressions in Chinese, based on Gundel, Hedberg and Zacharski's (1993) Givenness Hierarchy, and compares the discourse use of Chinese referring expressions with those of English. The Givenness Hierarchy is given below: THE GIVENNESS …
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Pragmatic referring functions as Montague semantic operators
In this dissertation, the thesis is defended that lexical semantics is not a subdomain of semantics, but rather a subdomain of pragmatics. That is, knowledge about the meaning of words is not part of one's knowledge of the language, but rather part of one's knowledge of the world. This distinction …
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Generating and interpreting referring expressions in context
Referring expressions with vague and ambiguous modifiers, such as "a quick visit" and "the big meeting," are difficult for computers to interpret because their meanings are defined in part by context. For the hearer to arrive at the speaker's intended meaning, he must consider the alternative …
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Weakly supervised learning from referring expression: Challenge and directions
… methods of weakly supervised learning from referring expression. Unlike traditional fully supervised semantic segmentation of object recognition tasks, in which a a small set of discrete class bases is provided, the referring expression task is performed associated with a sentence phrase, …
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The prominence of referring expressions: message and lexical level effects
… language production system and the prominence of referring expressions. In particular, this thesis focuses on the effect of processing at the message and lexical levels of language production. Across seven experiments, I examine three factors that affect prominence: predictability, repetition, and …
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Elevated Blood Glucose Levels in the Emergency Department: Missed Opportunity for Informing and Referring
… Department provider patterns for informing and referring discharged Emergency Department patients for follow-up of elevated random blood glucose levels. A descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional design, with purposive sample was used. Retrospective chart review was done for patients age 18 …
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Impact of the type of referring expression on the acquisition of word order variation
… dissertation examines the impact of the type of referring expression on the acquisition of word order variation in German-speaking preschoolers. A puzzle in the area of language acquisition concerns the production-comprehension asymmetry for non-canonical sentences like "Den Affen fängt die Kuh." …
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Proposing Design Guidelines of Insa-dong by Referring Design Guidelines of Old City Historic District
… design guidelines of Insa-dong, Seoul by referring the design guidelines of Old City Historic District, Philadelphia. Insa-dong is the first Cultural District in South Korea and it has many historical and cultural properties within the area. Insa-dong and Old City Historic District have …
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The effect of HIV status on perinatal outcome at Mowbray Maternity Hospital and referring MOUs
Background: 33,4 Million people were living with the Human Immune Deficiency virus by the end of 2009 with sub-Saharan Africa the most affected region. Maternal HIV infection is the leading cause of maternal and child morbidity and mortality in South Africa. A meta-analysis of world literature …
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Assessment of Referring Providers Use and Perceptions of the Burnett Burn Assessment and Management Tool for Estimating Burn Size
… Tool (BBAMT), which was recently distributed to referring hospitals and clinics. The purpose of this project was to assess the knowledge and perceived needs of outside providers of the burn wound triage and referral process, by evaluating 1) the implementation of the evidence based BBAMT with …
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An audit of the workload of an acute surgery unit in a tertiary academic hospital before and after the closure of a referring community hospital
Aim: An audit of the workload of an Acute Care Surgery Unit in a Tertiary Academic Hospital and an assessment of the impact on this Unit by the closure of a busy Community Hospital. Background: The primary mission of the Acute Care Surgery service is to provide timely surgical assessment, operative …
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The dissonance of guilt : an examination of the human condition's fundamental dynamic of guilt feelings, referring to psychological and religious discourse and how they could be combined to facilitate mental health
Feeling guilty is an experience we all know. It is a condition that ensures we remain cognisant of our obligations to our- selves and to others so that we live within the bounds of appropriate behaviour. When obligations are violated and deviance is evident, the resultant dissonance between …
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Music as a Memory Enhancer in Healthy, Young Adults: An Event-Related Potential Investigation
… have better discrimination for the pictures referring to the sung lyrics than for the pictures referring to the spoken lyrics. In Experiment 1, pictures referring to sung recordings showed a higher discrimination rate than pictures referring to the spoken recordings as predicted. The …
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Representing meaning: a feature-based model of object and action words
… majority of studies have been limited to words referring to concrete objects. The aim of the present work is to provide a theoretically and neurally plausible model of lexical-semantic representations, not only for words referring to concrete objects but also for words referring to actions and …
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An audit of referring patterns for cancer patients to the Palliative Care Unit in 2 Military Hospital, by means of a retrospective evaluation of the percentage of referrals adhering to a given standard, and evaluation of possible barriers
… to identify possible barriers to referral within referring doctors and to promote the role of the palliative care unit.
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