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Showing 1 to 20 of 2744 for “"textual"”.
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Context Aware Textual Entailment
… semantic aspects of sentences, as well as textual contexts and context elements. The method can offer both graph representation and First-Order-Logic representation of the text. This research also extracts a First-Order Logic (FOL) and XML representation of a text or series of texts. The …
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The reader and the page : textual gaps, textual arrangements and images in prose fiction
… of this thesis explore the implications that textual gaps,textual arrangements and visual images have on the reading process. Each chapter isdevoted to exploring the different effects of each of these three types of device on thereader, and constructs a new critical vocabulary for the analysis …
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Psycho-analysis and textual production
… methodology. It should be noted that the 'textual production' to which I refer in the title should not suggest a Marxist-based analysis. Instead, it refers to the activation of the text in conjunction with its encounter with the reading subject. As such, it does not refer to the creation of …
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Textual criticism and medieval Irish studies
Many textual scholars will be aware that the title of the present thesis has been composed in a conscious revisionary relation to Tim William Machan’s influential Textual Criticism and Middle English Texts. (Tim William Machan, Textual Criticism and Middle English Texts (Charlottesville, 1994)). …
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Literapolis: The Post-Internet Textual City
… the post-Internet city towards advocating the textual production of its citizens. It reacts to the precarious agency, accessibility, and heterogeneity caused by disenfranchising screen environments. In response, the thesis frames the city as a 'born-digital living literary,' whose spaces of …
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Textual entailment from image caption denotations
Understanding the meaning of linguistic expressions is a fundamental task of natural language processing. While distributed representations have become a powerful technique for modeling lexical semantics, but they have traditionally relied on ungrounded text corpora to identify semantically similar …
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Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands
… reading of J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands (1974) the textual dymamic that impels the two narrator-protagonists toward the solipsist position - the ground of the true Cartesian. I show how Eugene Dawn and Jacobus Coetzee are presented as products of Western print culture and children of René …
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Bracket study : textual, computational, and digital
Bracket system is an important and characteristic component in the traditional Chinese architecture. Much has been studied about the system - its origin, historical evolution, structure, and composition - in the traditional way: documents, hand drawings, and physical models. In this thesis, …
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Hemingway and the textual struggle of paternity
Ernest Hemingway bears the legendary reputation of a hyper-masculine hunter, drinker, and womanizer, though much criticism has sought to complicate notions of gender in the author's life and fiction. This research project considers fatherhood in particular, one aspect of masculinity that was never …
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Symbolic Ethnicity: A Non-Textual Translation Process
… phenomena can be considered a process of non-textual translation. To do this, I draw on Maria Tymoczkos notion of the cluster concept in order to explore the similarities and overlaps between translation and symbolic ethnicity. Furthermore, the images depicting ethnic symbols are examined …
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Locating performance : textual identity and the performative
The thesis Locating Performance: Textual Identity and the Performative takes the form of a self-interview, which by identifying itself as a performance, points to `the interview' as a structure with both a temporal and physical location beyond the page. Presented in this way the thesis examines the …
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Linking Textual Resources to Support Information Discovery
… of information is today stored in the form of textual documents, many of which are available online. These documents come from different sources and are of different types. They include newspaper articles, books, corporate reports, encyclopedia entries and research papers. At a semantic level, …
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Automated assessment of non-objective textual submissions.
… of automated marking of non-objective textual submissions. In so doing he tasked himself to discover how far automated assessment of text could be applied in the range of submissions from the single word to a multi-sentence, multi-paragraph piece of text. In the course of his research, …
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Case reuse in textual case-based reasoning.
Text reuse involves reasoning with textual solutions of previous problems to solve new similar problems. It is an integral part of textual case-based reasoning (TCBR), which applies the CBR problem-solving methodology to situations where experiences are predominantly captured in text form. Here, we …
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Processing Writing: From Text to Textual Interventions
… comprises the main bulk of the critical and textual work I have researched and developed over the last five years. Throughout this period, I have been particularly interested in exploring issues of interdisciplinarity for writers and text-practitioners, at both a critical and a methodological …
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Page Indexing for Textual Information Retrieval Systems
… retrieve from very large natural language textual databases. This thesis discusses conventional approaches to the design of such systems. The notion of page indexing is introduced as a new scheme for doing information retrieval from natural language full-text databases.
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Textual analysis, information diffusion, and asset returns
… methods of news analytics are used to quantify textual information. Text sentiment extracts text’s attitude by counting negative words and has proved extremely useful in a variety of contexts. The literature interprets it in three ways: quantitative information, soft news, and psychological …
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