Context and Meaning
Titi semantics : context and meaning in Titi monkey call sequences
... call meaning, rules of competition among calls, and non-trivial properties of the environmental ...environmental context are crucial to obtain an appropriate ...of meaning enrichment comparable to ...
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Shades Of Meaning: Capturing Meaningful Context-Based Variations In Neural Patterns
... by meaning frequency, such that activity here was greater for subordinate-biasing versus dominant-biasing ...disambiguating context was delayed ...of context position emerged for subordinate-biasing ...
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Word Meaning and Context: a Critical Examination of Contrasting Perspectives
... Both Langacker (1999: 23) and Jackendoff (2002: 418) envisage a division of labour within the field of language research, where individual linguists are free to concentrate on describing the "mental adjustments" ...
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Modeling Word Meaning in Context with Substitute Vectors
... our meaning in- context methods show significant additional gains in performance on LS07, with top-1000 pruning per- forming a little better than ...
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Taking meaning out of context : essays on the foundations of natural language semantics
... the context – what makes it the case that Kaplan is the referent in the context in which (22) was uttered is the fact that Kaplan is the agent of that ...formal context represent utterance events per ...
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WiC: the Word in Context Dataset for Evaluating Context Sensitive Meaning Representations
... The Stanford Contextual Word Similarity (SCWS) dataset (Huang et al., 2012) comprises 2003 word pairs and is analogous to standard word similarity datasets, such as RG-65 (Rubenstein and Goode- nough, 1965) and SimLex ...
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Improving Coordination on Novel Meaning through Context and Semantic Structure
... if context is (at least partially) shared, informative, and cheap, less information needs to be carried by ...a meaning t ∈ T with and without context K using Shannon en- tropy (Shannon, ...is, ...
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Word Meaning in Context: A Simple and Effective Vector Model
... modeling context-sensitivity in a distributional framework has first been addressed in the seminal paper of Schütze (1998), who uses second-order bag-of-words vectors for the task of word sense ...the ...
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Painted Early Cycladic Figures: An Exploration of Context and Meaning
... Difficult to explain, however, is the dearth of surface embellishment on the decreased number of anthropomorphic figures recovered from sites dating to the Final Neolithic ([r] ...
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Contrast explanation in economics its context, meaning, and potential
... As with van Fraassen, for Garfinkel any non-trivial why question requiring a causal answer involves at least an implicit contrast. For example, a student is a member of a class, the class is graded according to a ...
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Hyperemesis Gravidarum in the context of migration: when the absence of cultural meaning gives rise to “blaming the victim”
... Results: With the exception of a few women whose mothers suffered from HG, immigrant women and their loved ones did not have cultural knowledge to attribute meaning to HG symptoms. This left them vulnerable to ...
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Architecture as Communication: A Study of the role of Form, Function and Context in evoking Meaning
... Furthermore, the physical presence of the sign leaves little room for Parole. The context for architectural interpretation is too complex. Umberto Eco, an Italian Semiotician, in his famous essay Function and ...
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The meaning of independence in the context of audit : demand and supply side interpretations
... The final study that can be considered to have provided a foundation for application of the measurement of meaning framework to accounting and auditing concepts is Houghton (1987a). Utilising 22 of the semantic ...
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Towards an ecology of context and communication: negotiating meaning and language education.
... Though few meaning negotiations were necessary at code level, in each of the interviews recorded teachers and students performed less negotiation of meaning at a level carrying the hig[r] ...
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Context, meaning, and interpretation, in a practical approach to linguistics.
... 3) In order for such Statements to be used in evaluations of specific events, they must at the same time be context-sensitive. Useful context-independent formulations of functional prope[r] ...
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Building Semantic Perceptron Net for Topic Spotting
... which context is used to select the exact meaning of a ...the context and co-occurrence statistics, and by looking up thesaurus, it is able to group the distributed but semantic related words ...
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Semantic Shift in the Kenyan Prison Argot
... Just like any other slang, the Kenyan prison argot contains words which have been formed by changing the meaning of words from the standard language. The prisoners use the words from the standard Swahili language ...
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A comparison of models of word meaning in context
... This paper compares a number of recently pro- posed models for computing context sensitive word similarity. We clarify the connections between these models, simplify their formula- tion and evaluate them in a ...
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Guessing the Meanings of Words From Context: Why and How
... in context will enable students to improve their ...in context and students are more likely to deduce meaning from a ...the context will help make the item more memorable and aid ...in ...
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“Formulae” in Coherent Text: Linguistic Relevance of Symbolic Insertions
... The meaning is ascribed ta a formula by the context... For example, i'n the expression 'set R' the formula.[r] ...
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