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Prior, Martin Hugh. "Syntactic universals and semantic constraints : statistical and other comparative evidence from the study of verbs and adjectives." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1985. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28975/.

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This study is concerned with the examination of word-order universals and the attempt to explain the diverse statistical patterns by means of a variety of semantic structures. Central to my study is a critique (a) of Hawkins's approach, the Universal Consistency Hypothesis, and its concentration upon apparently exceptionless universals, and (b) the Bartsch-Vennemann approach which breaks down structures generally into OPerator-Operand pairs. In Part I, I introduce a geographically and genetically representative sample of 75 languages, and show that not only are violations to be found to Hawkin

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Andersson, Karin. "'Consider' and its Swedish equivalents in relation to machine translation." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-771.

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<p>This study describes the English verb ’consider’ and the characteristics of some of its senses. An investigation of this kind may be useful, since a machine translation program, SYSTRAN, has invariably translated ’consider’ with the Swedish verbs ’betrakta’ (Eng: ’view’, regard’) and ’anse’ (Eng: ’regard’). This handling of ’consider’ is not satisfactory in all contexts.</p><p>Since ’consider’ is a cogitative verb, it is fascinating to observe that both the theory of semantic primes and universals and conceptual semantics are concerned with cogitation in various ways. Anna Wierzbicka, who i

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Juba, Brendan (Brendan Andrew). "Universal semantic communication." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62423.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2010.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-334).<br>Is meaningful communication possible between two intelligent parties who share no common language or background? We propose that this problem can be rigorously addressed by explicitly focusing on the goals of the communication. We propose a theoretical framework in which we can address when and to what extent such semantic communication is possible. Our starting point is a mathematica

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Chang, Tzy-hey H. "A universal relation data model with semantic constructs." Thesis, Boston University, 1988. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/38016.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>This thesis describes a modularized universal relation data model, called URMSC (Universal Relation Data Model with Semantic Constructs). This model incorporates concepts from the semantic data model, such as

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Bale, Alan Clinton. "The universal scale and the semantics of comparison /." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102479.

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Comparative constructions allow individuals to be compared according to different properties. Such comparisons form two classes, those that permit direct, comparisons (comparisons of measurements as in Seymour is taller than he is wide) and those that only allow indirect comparisons (comparisons of relative positions on separate scales as in Esme is more beautiful than Einstein is intelligent). Traditionally, these two types of comparisons have been associated with an ambiguity in the interpretations of the comparative and equative morphemes (see, Bartsch & Vennemann, 1972; Kennedy, 1999). In

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Swan, Karen Esther. "Borrowing the Essentials: A Diachronic Study of the Semantic Primes of Modern English." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4249.

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In order for communication to take place, there must be a set of core concepts that are universal to all speakers. Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) has proposed an inventory of these concepts, called semantic primes, and uses them as universal concepts in the explication and exploration of cultural values. The English semantic primes, while the majority are Anglo-Saxon, contain words that have been borrowed from Latin, Old Norse, and French. Borrowing lexical items into core vocabulary has many implications. First, the primes are not entirely stable or immune to foreign influence, even the

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Docherty, Liam S. "An ontology based approach towards a universal description framework for home networks." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2014.

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Current home networks typically involve two or more machines sharing network resources. The vision for the home network has grown from a simple computer network, to every day appliances embedded with network capabilities. In this environment devices and services within the home can interoperate, regardless of protocol or platform. Network clients can discover required resources by performing network discovery over component descriptions. Common approaches to this discovery process involve simple matching of keywords or attribute/value pairings. Interest emerging from the Semantic Web community

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Vazzata-Dias, Juçá Fialho. "Sentenças com quantificação universal no português do Brasil." Florianópolis, SC, 2001. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/82203.

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Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-19T12:49:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0Bitstream added on 2014-09-25T22:02:29Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 178680.pdf: 4527923 bytes, checksum: 37c4b76a3add24d16a994285e236034c (MD5)<br>Esta tese tem por objetivo examinar o estatuto semântico de sentenças com quantificação universal no PB, mostrando que há dois tipos de expressões universalmente quantificadas: a quantificação lawlike e a quantificação neutra para lawlikeness. Buscamos também dar um tratamento formal e

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Henriksson, Jakob. "A Lightweight Framework for Universal Fragment Composition." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-ds-1231251831567-11763.

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Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are useful tools for coping with complexity in software development. DSLs provide developers with appropriate constructs for specifying and solving the problems they are faced with. While the exact definition of DSLs can vary, they can roughly be divided into two categories: embedded and non-embedded. Embedded DSLs (E-DSLs) are integrated into general-purpose host languages (e.g. Java), while non-embedded DSLs (NE-DSLs) are standalone languages with their own tooling (e.g. compilers or interpreters). NE-DSLs can for example be found on the Semantic Web where th

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Henriksson, Jakob. "A Lightweight Framework for Universal Fragment Composition." Doctoral thesis, Technische Universität Dresden, 2008. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A25043.

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Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are useful tools for coping with complexity in software development. DSLs provide developers with appropriate constructs for specifying and solving the problems they are faced with. While the exact definition of DSLs can vary, they can roughly be divided into two categories: embedded and non-embedded. Embedded DSLs (E-DSLs) are integrated into general-purpose host languages (e.g. Java), while non-embedded DSLs (NE-DSLs) are standalone languages with their own tooling (e.g. compilers or interpreters). NE-DSLs can for example be found on the Semantic Web where th

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Rammé, Valdilena. "Mudança semântica no PB : reanálise restringida pela hierarquia funcional-conceitual universal." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/47405.

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Orientadora : Profa. Dra. Teresa Cristina Wachowicz<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras. Defesa: Curitiba, 23/03/2017<br>Inclui referências : p.230-236<br>Área de concentração : Estudos linguísticos<br>Resumo: A proposta desta tese é analisar e discutir as mudanças semânticas que os verbos e preposições envolvidos na expressão do deslocamento espacial podem ter sofrido no Português Brasileiro (PB) entre os séculos XVIII e XXI. Colocando-se na interface da semântica e da sintaxe, este trabalho busca na Nanossintaxe

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Ortín, Nadal Anna Pilar. "Mental activity in Descartes' causal-semantic model of sensory perception." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31538.

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The aim of this thesis is to defend a reading of Descartes' theory of sensory perception in which, against a widespread interpretation, the mind is not a passive receiver of inputs from the environment, but an active decoder of neural information that contributes to the representational content of ideas. I call this the 'mental activity thesis' and, in the overall picture, I identify it as one of the philosophical implications of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution. Within Descartes' dualism, to offer a theory of sensory perception amounts to describing the interplay between the natu

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Tucker, Daniel. "Scope Licensing in English Sentences Containing Universal Quantifiers and Negation by L1-Mandarin Chinese L2-English Adult Learners." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1188.

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Recent research in both native (L1) and non-native (L2) knowledge of quantifier scope has led to a number of competing beliefs about the nature of learner knowledge. With regard to native knowledge, it has been noted in the literature that there is a discrepancy between L1 child and adult performance in quantifier interpretation. This observed mismatch has led to the formulation of two conflicting analyses of the L1 data. Philip (1991, 1992, and 1995) and others (Philip and Takahashi, 1991; Roeper, Strauss and Pearson, 2004, 2005; DelliCarpini, 2003) propose that quantification is a natural ac

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Atay, Zeynep. "Second Language Acquisition Of The English Article System By Turkish Learners: The Role Of Semantic Notions." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611970/index.pdf.

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This thesis investigates the second language acquisition of the English article system by Turkish learners in order to find out the role of certain semantic universals of the Universal Grammar during the acquisition process. More specifically, the purpose is to see whether or not L1 Turkish learners of English fluctuate between two semantic notions namely<br>specificity and definiteness, and the effect of this fluctuation on acquisition. 120 students from three groups of learners at different proficiency levels (40 elementary, 40 intermediate and 40 upper &ndash<br>intermediate students) were

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Oshima, Satoshi, Rika Mochizuki, Reiner Lenz, and Jinhui Chao. "Color-Weakness Compensation using Riemann Normal Coordinates." Linköpings universitet, Medie- och Informationsteknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-86669.

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We introduce normal coordinates in Riemannspaces as a tool to construct color-weak compensation methods.We use them to compute color stimuli for a color weakobservers that result in the same color perception as theoriginal image presented to a color normal observer in the sensethat perceived color-differences are identical for both. Thecompensation is obtained through a color-difference-preservingmap, i.e. an isometry between the 3D color spaces of a colornormaland any given color-weak observer. This approach usesdiscrimination threshold data and is free from approximationerrors due to local l

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Khoury, Vanessa El. "Semantic protection and personalization of video content PIAF : MPEG compliant adaptation framework preserving the user perceived quality." Thesis, Lyon, INSA, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013ISAL0086/document.

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Dans cette thèse, nous proposons un framework d’adaptation appelé "Personalized vIdeo Adaptation Framework" (PIAF) conçu à partir des standards MPEG. PIAF intègre les contraintes sémantiques et vise à maximiser la qualité perçue par l’utilisateur lors de la visualisation de la vidéo tout en respectant les droits de propriété intellectuelle. Les contributions de cette thèse peuvent être résumées comme suit. Dans un premier temps, nous avons utilisé et étendu les standards MPEG-7 et MPEG-21 afin de représenter les préférences des utilisateurs. Nous avons ensuite proposé un modèle formel du proce

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Kevari, Mary Kathleen. "The role of universal grammar in second language acquisition: An experimental study of Spanish ESL students' interpretation of lexical pronouns." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1710.

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Cadet, Méven. "Les Grundgesetze der Arithmetik de Frege : idéographie : genèse, syntaxe, sémantique." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H211/document.

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Un important désaccord subsiste parmi les exégètes de Frege au sujet de la question suivante : quel rapport entretient l'universalisme logique de Frege avec la sémantique contemporaine ? Le premier constitue-t-il un obstacle à l'élaboration et/ou à l'exploitation de la seconde ? Face à cette interrogation deux camps s'affrontent. L'un dresse la liste considérable des passages des Grundgesetze dans lesquels Frege sembla se lancer dans de véritables raisonnements sémantiques. L'autre rétorque qu'il s'agissait à ses yeux de pures élucidations, bannies de jure de la sphère théorique. Notre objecti

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Sarkis, Ralph. "Lifting Algebraic Reasoning to Generalized Metric Spaces." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Lyon, École normale supérieure, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024ENSL0025.

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On retrouve le raisonnement algébrique partout en mathématique et en informatique, et il a déjà été généralisé à pleins de contextes différents. En 2016, Mardare, Panangaden et Plotkin ont introduit les algèbres quantitatives, c'est-à-dire, des espaces métriques équipés d'opérations 1-lipschitzienne relativement à la métrique. Ils ont prouvées des homologues à des résultats importants en algèbre universelle, et en particulier ils ont donné un système de déduction correct et complet qui généralise la logique équationnelle de Birkhoff en remplaçant l'égalité par l'égalité à \varepsilon près. Ça

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Macháčková, Anežka. "Kontrastivní studie hyperboly v češtině a angličtině. Korpusová studie." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-310464.

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The aim of this study is to compare and contrast the use of hyperbole or exaggeration in spoken Czech and English language. The research is based on comparative approach to two samples accounting for 100 hyperbolic instances in Czech and 100 instances of hyperbole in English. The Czech sample has been randomly excerpted from the oral part of the Czech National Corpus ORAL2008, whereas the English sample has been randomly excerpted from the "spoken context-govern" and "spoken demographic" sections of The British National Corpus. The two samples are subject to analysis. Firstly, the formal reali

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Anderson, Winston Noël. "Investigating the universality of a semantic web-upper ontology in the context of the African languages." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21898.

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Ontologies are foundational to, and upper ontologies provide semantic integration across, the Semantic Web. Multilingualism has been shown to be a key challenge to the development of the Semantic Web, and is a particular challenge to the universality requirement of upper ontologies. Universality implies a qualitative mapping from lexical ontologies, like WordNet, to an upper ontology, such as SUMO. Are a given natural language family's core concepts currently included in an existing, accepted upper ontology? Does SUMO preserve an ontological non-bias with respect to the multilingual challeng

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Ajmal, Mohammed. "Universal multimedia access and semantic summarization for presentations." 2007. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=452833&T=F.

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Huang, Chun-Hsiung, and 黃俊雄. "Focus Based Resource-Aware Semantic Transcoding for Universal Access." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51726579532924860155.

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碩士<br>國立東華大學<br>資訊工程學系<br>93<br>As the popularity of wired/wireless Internet, variety of access devices, and the needs for information access to users increased, network service and content providers must make changes according to different network types, user devices, or even user interests. The need for universal access and transcoding technologies naturally arise. A transcoding system dynamic adapts the content based on network/device characteristics and/or user interests. Most of the existing transcoding systems only provide simple media adaptation or semantic transcoding, without consider

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Re, Alessandro. "Universal Genetic Programming: a Meta Learning Approach based on Semantics." Doctoral thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/79664.

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A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Information Management, specialization in Information and Decision Systems<br>With the advancements of Machine Learning, the number of predictive models that can be used in a given situation has grown incredibly, and scientists willing to use Machine Learning have to spend a significant amount of time in searching, testing and tuning those models. This has an inevitable impact on the research quality. Many scientists are currently working on different approaches to automate this process by devising

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Kwon, Kyounghee. "Assessing semantic equivalence for shared understanding of international documents An application of semantic network analysis to multilingual translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights /." 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1320952451&sid=13&Fmt=2&clientId=39334&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2007.<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 14, 2007) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Barnett, George A., Tutzauer, Frank. Includes bibliographical references.

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Ip, Martin Ho Kwan. "Universal and language-specific processing : the case of prosody." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:53200.

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A key question in the science of language is how speech processing can be influenced by both language-universal and language-specific mechanisms (Cutler, Klein, & Levinson, 2005). My graduate research aimed to address this question by adopting a crosslanguage approach to compare languages with different phonological systems. Of all components of linguistic structure, prosody is often considered to be one of the most language-specific dimensions of speech. This can have significant implications for our understanding of language use, because much of speech processing is specifically tailored to

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Henriksson, Jakob [Verfasser]. "A lightweight framework for universal fragment composition : with an application in the semantic web / eingereicht von Jakob Henriksson." 2008. http://d-nb.info/992785669/34.

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Nunes, Roberto Milton Gouveia. "WOW: wiki aided organization draWing." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/616.

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As the world evolves, organizations are becoming more and more complex, and the need to understand that complexity is increasing as well. With this demand, arises organizational engineering, which is a subject that emerged with the purpose to make organizations easier to understand, by putting in practice the concept of organizational self-awareness, which means that that the collaborators who are part of an organization, need to understand it and know what their role in it is. The DEMO methodology (Design Engineering Methodology for Organizations), came up with the purpose of representin

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Bilous, Rostyslav. "Transitivité et marquage d'objet différentiel." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31692.

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This thesis deals with direct object nouns case-marked differentially. According to the commonly assumed generalization nouns marked with ACC case are prototypical objects representing high transitivity, whereas nouns marked with non-accusative cases are not. However, such a view ignores the possibility of a much finer distinction and fails to account for empirical data from languages with rich case morphology, such as Ukrainian. Given the complexity of the phenomenon under study the main objective of our investigation is to account exhaustively for all possible instances of non-accusative cas

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Van, der Merwe Amanda-Marie. "Die valensie van bewegingswerkwoorde in Afrikaans." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16261.

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Text in Afrikaans<br>Twee sentrale probleme word hier ondersoek, naamlik die daarstelling van 'n teoreties adekwate model om leksikale valensie te verreken en die problematiek rondom die beskrywing van Afrikaanse bewegingswerkwoorde. Die vertrekpunt is dat 'n teorie van UG lesikale valensie slegs ten dele verreken. So 'n teorie is gemoeid met die vorm van 'n konstruksie wat op LF-vlak leesbaar is. Gevolglik beskryf 'n teorie van UG valensie net in universele sintakties-kategoriale terme. In hierdie studie word die semantiese en pragmatiese komponente van 'n valensieteorie derhalwe ui

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