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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"temporal expressions"”.
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Implementing a digital calendar in a portfolio management context using temporal expressions
Different systems implement digital calendars according to their context-specific needs. In the case of a portfolio management system for the financial industry, a digital calendar needs to keep track of financial events that can be both recurring and nonrecurring as well as provide business …
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Temporal Processing of News: Annotation of Temporal Expressions, Verbal Events and Temporal Relations
The ability to capture the temporal dimension of a natural language text is essential to many natural language processing applications, such as Question Answering, Automatic Summarisation, and Information Retrieval. Temporal processing is a ¯eld of Computational Linguistics which aims to access …
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DEVELOPING THINKING IN L2 SPEAKING: EVIDENCE FROM SPATIAL-TEMPORAL SYSTEM IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH LEARNERS
<p>Spatial and temporal expressions cross-linguistically are metaphorical can present a difficult challenge during second language acquisition. This dissertation expands on Slobins (1996) study of 'first-language thinking in second-language speaking,' and applies linguistic relativity theory and …
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Temporal Information Extraction and Knowledge Base Population
<p>Temporal Information Extraction (TIE) from text plays an important role in many Natural Language Processing and Database applications. Many features of the world are time-dependent, and rich temporal knowledge is required for a more complete and precise understanding of the world. In this thesis …
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Time gestures : time conceptualisation in English with evidence from gestures in a multimodal corpus
… database, to investigate co-speech gestures for temporal expressions in English. This research investigates time conceptualisation by studying gesture patterns that co-occur with temporal linguistic expressions. While much has been written about time conceptualisation based on linguistic …
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Temporal Design: <i>design for a multi-temporal world</i>
… humanities. The world is comprised of multiple temporal expressions, which con- tinue to play important roles in our lives, despite being disregarded within dominant narratives. <br/><br/>This thesis analyses the role of these narratives as well as different approaches to time in design. It …
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The Expression of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 and -2 in Olfactory Injury and Recovery
… and recovery. To address the role of MMPs, the temporal expressions of MMP-9 and MMP-2 were examined in 3 olfactory injury models: nerve transection (NTx), methyl bromide gas (MeBr) exposure, and nerve transection with Teflon barrier (NTx-TB). Each injury model represents a different degree of …
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Shallow Water Wave Propagation in Open Channel Flow
… is implemented to obtain analytical spatio-temporal expressions of upstream and downstream channel responses, facilitating a critical comparison of the physical characteristics among different waves. In addition, linear stability analysis is introduced to discuss the free surface stability …
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The Latter Days and the Time of the End in the Book of Daniel
<p>This study attempts to investigate the two temporal expressions <em>b</em><em><em>e'a</em>harit </em><em>hayyamim </em>(the latter days) and <em>cet qes</em> (the time of the end) in the book of Daniel. Its main objective is to determine the precise meanings ofthese phrases and the relationship …