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Dolena, Alexis Lynn. "Uncovering the "slow mapping" process of word learning through word definition and word association tasks." Click here for download, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1212794661&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Shebani, Zubaida Soliman. "Semantic word category processing." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610751.

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Lau, Ka-po Natalie, and 劉家寶. "Semantic interference of Chinese words in the picture-word interference task." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45007597.

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Grover, Ishaan. "A semantics based computational model for word learning." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120694.

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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2018.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-77).<br>Studies have shown that children's early literacy skills can impact their ability to achieve academic success, attain higher education and secure employment later in life. However, lack of resources and limited access to educational content causes a "knowledge gap" between children that come from different socio-economic backgrounds. To solve this problem, there has b

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Taylor, Maureen Deirdre. "Word grammar and the semantics of compound nouns." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1987. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28840/.

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This investigation is a mentalistic inquiry into the study of semantic structure for compound nouns in English. The phenomenon of compounding entails competence in both semantic and pragmatic aspects of knowledge. These two aspects of language are generally described by separate grammatical models with the result that traditional analyses have been unable to provide a descriptively adequate account of the meanings of English compound nouns. This inquiry adopts the grammatical model of Word Grammar which incorporates a systematic representation of grammatical competence within a model of perfor

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Burton, Marilyn Elizabeth. "Semantics of glory : a cognitive, corpus-based approach to Hebrew word meaning." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9573.

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The concept of ‘glory’ is one of the most significant themes in the Hebrew Bible, lying at the heart of God’s self-disclosure in biblical revelation. Yet, while the concept has received theological treatment, and while various relevant Hebrew roots have individually benefited from linguistic survey, the group of lexemes surrounding this concept is as yet untouched by a comprehensive semantic study. Through indepth semantic study this thesis offers a clearer understanding of the interrelations and differences between the Classical Hebrew lexemes centring around the concept of ‘glory’. The first

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Forse, Jessica Amy. "The conceptual semantics of word formation : a romance perspective." Thesis, Swansea University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678457.

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Bose, Sougata. "On decision problems on word transducers with origin semantics." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021BORD0073.

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La sémantique d'origine pour les transducteurs de mots a été introduite par Bojańczyk en 2014 afin d'obtenir une caractérisation indépendante de la machine pour les fonctions mot à mot définies par les transducteurs. Notre objectif principal était d'étudier certains problèmes de décision classiques pour les transducteurs dans la sémantique d'origine, tels que le problème d'inclusion et d'équivalence. Nous avons montré que ces problèmes deviennent décidables dans la sémantique d'origine, même si la version classique est indécidable.Motivé par l'observation que la sémantique d'origine est plus f

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Neff, Kathryn Joan Eggers. "Neural net models of word representation : a connectionist approach to word meaning and lexical relations." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/832999.

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This study examines the use of the neural net paradigm as a modeling tool to represent word meanings. The neural net paradigm, also called "connectionism" and "parallel distributed processing," provides a new metaphor and vocabulary for representing the structure of the mental lexicon. As a research method applied to the componential analysis of word meanings, the neural net approach has one primary advantage over the traditional introspective method: freedom from the investigator's personal biases.The connectionist method is illustrated in this thesis with an extensive examination of the mean

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Sinha, Ravi Som Mihalcea Rada F. "Graph-based centrality algorithms for unsupervised word sense disambiguation." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9736.

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Cohen, Shai. "On the semantics of too and only distinctness and subsumption /." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3379949/.

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Shibahara, Naoki. "Access to the adjectival meanings in the left and right cerebral hemispheres." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313983.

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Morena, Luca. "Word or object? : a study of disagreement in ontology /." Milano : Albo versorio, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016234905&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Sinha, Ravi Som. "Graph-based Centrality Algorithms for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9736/.

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This thesis introduces an innovative methodology of combining some traditional dictionary based approaches to word sense disambiguation (semantic similarity measures and overlap of word glosses, both based on WordNet) with some graph-based centrality methods, namely the degree of the vertices, Pagerank, closeness, and betweenness. The approach is completely unsupervised, and is based on creating graphs for the words to be disambiguated. We experiment with several possible combinations of the semantic similarity measures as the first stage in our experiments. The next stage attempts to score in

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McGregor, Stephen. "Geometric methods for context sensitive distributional semantics." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2018. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/36691.

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This thesis describes a novel methodology, grounded in the distributional semantic paradigm, for building context sensitive models of word meaning, affording an empirical exploration of the relationship between words and concepts. Anchored in theoretical linguistic insight regarding the contextually specified nature of lexical semantics, the work presented here explores a range of techniques for the selection of subspaces of word co-occurrence dimensions based on a statistical analysis of input terms as observed within large-scale textual corpora. The relationships between word-vectors that em

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Sorhagen, Nicole. "Exploring social class differences in the development of elaborated word meanings." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com.ps2.villanova.edu/pqdweb?did=1930212961&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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鄭佩芳 and Pui-fong Cheng. "A study on parts of speech, word formation, and the change of word meaning in modern Chinese." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31234124.

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Silvey, Catriona Anne. "Communicative emergence and cultural evolution of word meanings." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/16462.

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The question of how language evolved has received an increasing amount of attention in recent years. Compared to seemingly more complex phenomena such as syntax, word meanings are usually seen as relatively easy to explain. Mainstream accounts in psycholinguistics and evolutionary linguistics assume that word meanings correspond to stable concepts which are prior to language and derive straightforwardly from human perception of structure in the world. Taking a cognitive linguistic approach based on psycholinguistic evidence, I argue instead that word meanings are conventions, grounded, learned

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Moss, Adam. "Detecting Lexical Semantic Change Using Probabilistic Gaussian Word Embeddings." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412539.

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In this work, we test two novel methods of using word embeddings to detect lexical semantic change, attempting to overcome limitations associated with conventional approaches to this problem. Using a diachronic corpus spanning over a hundred years, we generate word embeddings for each decade with the intention of evaluating how meaning changes are represented in embeddings for the same word across time. Our approach differs from previous works in this field in that we encode words as probabilistic Gaussian distributions and bimodal probabilistic Gaussian mixtures, rather than conventional word

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Jager, Bernadet. "Processing lexical ambiguity : the effects of meaning relatedness, word frequency, concreteness, and level of processing." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=185856.

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This thesis explores the processing of lexical ambiguity: words with several unrelated meanings (homonymy) or many related senses (polysemy). Chapter I provides a literature overview of studies investigating this topic. Chapters 2 and 3 pursue a first goal: to investigate whether effects are influenced by the methodology of defining lexical ambiguity. The results support the hypothesis (Rodd, Gaskell, & Marslen- Wilson, 2002) that studies using questionnaires to define lexical ambiguity (e.g. Rubenstein, Garfield, & Millikan, 1970) found a polysemy advantage rather than a homonymy advantage. Q

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Faruque, Md Ehsanul. "A Minimally Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Algorithm Using Syntactic Dependencies and Semantic Generalizations." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4969/.

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Natural language is inherently ambiguous. For example, the word "bank" can mean a financial institution or a river shore. Finding the correct meaning of a word in a particular context is a task known as word sense disambiguation (WSD), which is essential for many natural language processing applications such as machine translation, information retrieval, and others. While most current WSD methods try to disambiguate a small number of words for which enough annotated examples are available, the method proposed in this thesis attempts to address all words in unrestricted text. The method is bas

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Zens, Naomi Katharina. "Facilitating Word-Learning Abilities in Children with Specific Language Impairment." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Communication Disorders, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2698.

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Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) often present with difficulties in learning new words compared to age-matched children with typical language development. These difficulties may affect the acquisition, storage, or retrieval of new words. Word-learning deficits impact on children’s vocabulary development and impede their language and literacy development. Findings from a wide range of studies investigating word-learning in children with SLI demonstrated that semantic and phonological knowledge are crucial to the word-learning process. However, intervention studies designed to im

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Norlund, Tobias. "The Use of Distributional Semantics in Text Classification Models : Comparative performance analysis of popular word embeddings." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Datorseende, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-127991.

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In the field of Natural Language Processing, supervised machine learning is commonly used to solve classification tasks such as sentiment analysis and text categorization. The classical way of representing the text has been to use the well known Bag-Of-Words representation. However lately low-dimensional dense word vectors have come to dominate the input to state-of-the-art models. While few studies have made a fair comparison of the models' sensibility to the text representation, this thesis tries to fill that gap. We especially seek insight in the impact various unsupervised pre-trained vect

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Tsiplakou, Stavroula. "Focus in Greek : its structure and interpretation." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313433.

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Ємельянов, Д. Ю. "До питання про диференціацію понять «емотивність», «емоційність» та «експресивність»". Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2019. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/72671.

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Робота написана під науковим керівництвом Анохіна Ю.Л. (ДП «Укрметрстандарт», м. Київ) та канд. філол. наук, професора Кобякової І.К. (СумДУ)<br>Відтворення афективно забарвленої лексики з однієї мови в іншу привертає особливу увагу та становить науковий інтерес, оскільки в кожній мові це явище відбувається по-різному. Для перекладача важливо розглянути проблему всебічно та зіставити можливі шляхи, прийоми та засоби вираження суб’єктивної оцінки в мові оригіналу та мові перекладу.<br>В работе рассматриваются особенности английских эмотивов на лексическом уровне. Автор рассматривает и

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Thomas, Joseph Denard. "A Role for Partial Awareness in the Modulation of Semantic Priming Effects." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193467.

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The present study sought to investigate the extent to which masked semantic priming is an automatic process and whether its effects vary depending upon the type of stimuli used. Recent studies have shown that there is a differential priming effect for prime-target pairs with different types of semantic relationships. Here, using a semantic categorization task with masked priming, we compared the effects of synonym, antonym,and associatively related non-exemplar prime-target pairs when presented at different stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs). Participants took a prime visibility posttest in co

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Chan, Alexander Mark. "Extracting Spatiotemporal Word and Semantic Representations from Multiscale Neurophysiological Recordings in Humans." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10251.

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With the recent advent of neuroimaging techniques, the majority of the research studying the neural basis of language processing has focused on the localization of various lexical and semantic functions. Unfortunately, the limited time resolution of functional neuroimaging prevents a detailed analysis of the dynamics involved in word recognition, and the hemodynamic basis of these techniques prevents the study of the underlying neurophysiology. Compounding this problem, current techniques for the analysis of high-dimensional neural data are mainly sensitive to large effects in a small area,

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Guthormsen, Amy. "Conceptual integration of mathematical and semantic knowledge /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8995.

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Albert, Gandía Milagros. "On Word Definition in Children and Adults: Effects of Word Category and Level of Abstraction." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/400881.

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This is a thesis about word definition. Early developmental studies of word definition, tested nous rather than other morphological categories (adjectives, verbs). As some authors have pointed out (McKeown, 1991) a proper definition includes a superordinate term that denominates the category to which the word to be defined belongs, followed by definitional features of the word. This description has been frequently translated into the formula ‘X is a Y that Z’ (Nippold, 1995; Watson, 1995) which has lead developmental researchers to consider that a definition that includes a relative clause to

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Kaczorowski, Anna. "Is 'respect' a Feeling or a Behaviour? : -a study of the connection between word meaning and age for native and non-native speakers of English." Thesis, Mid Sweden University, Department of Humanities, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-9175.

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<p>The aim of this study was to investigate if there is a connection between language and social identity in the perception of word meaning among second language learners in the same way as for native speakers, and if the sociolinguistic variable age is significant. This was done with an investigation of two generations of Swedish learners' perception of the meaning of the words 'respect', 'integrity' and 'communication'. The investigation showed that age is important to a certain extent regarding interpreting words and their meaning, but that it is not as important if the speaker has English

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Milajevs, Dmitrijs. "A study of model parameters for scaling up word to sentence similarity tasks in distributional semantics." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2018. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/36225.

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Representation of sentences that captures semantics is an essential part of natural language processing systems, such as information retrieval or machine translation. The representation of a sentence is commonly built by combining the representations of the words that the sentence consists of. Similarity between words is widely used as a proxy to evaluate semantic representations. Word similarity models are well-studied and are shown to positively correlate with human similarity judgements. Current evaluation of models of sentential similarity builds on the results obtained in lexical experime

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Mealing, Cathy. "German noun compounds and their role in text cohesion." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64084.

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Isheden, Gabriel. "Diagnostics of Semantic Word Spaces." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-142614.

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In collaboration with Gavagai, a company that develops automated and scalable methods for retrieving actionable intelligence from dynamic data, I have been studying semantic word spaces and topology. In this bachelor’s thesis, with help from computational topology, I introduce new ways to describe properties of these semantic word spaces, so called barcodes. I develop a measure to describe barcodes of betti number zero, prove its validity and discuss its implications.

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Lau, Ka-po Natalie. "Semantic interference of Chinese words in the picture-word interference task /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36846181.

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Cooper, Elisa. "Pronouncing printed words : investigating a semantic contribution to adult word reading." Thesis, University of East London, 2013. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3042/.

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When considering print-to-sound word reading, orthography and phonology are obviously involved. However, another system, that of semantic memory, might also be involved in orthography-to-phonology computation. Whether this occurs is debated in the literature both in the interpretation of behavioural results (e.g., Monaghan & Ellis, 2002; Strain et al., 1995) and in the implementation of semantic memory within computational models of word reading (Coltheart et al., 2001; Plaut et al., 1996). The central aim of this thesis was to investigate whether there is a semantic contribution to orthograph

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Whitsett, Mark D. "Semantic coherence theological conceptualization in Word of God communication, a discovery process in a confirmation class setting /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Jackson, Leolyn M. "The function of marked word order in Biblical Hebrew prose: An evaluation of existing theories in the light of 2 Kings." University of the Western Cape, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8205.

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Magister Artium - MA<br>This thesis .investigates the function of a topicalized constituent .in the narrative non-direct speech texts .in 2 Kings. Many traditional BH grammarians described the :function of a topicalized constituent as "emphasis". Recent BH grammarians pointed out that extralinguistic factors like the total communicative context should also be considered in the description of a function for a topicalized constituent. The shift from the structural to a more pragmatic approach is illustrated in this study. The pragmatic approach proved to be not only possible, but also advantage

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Erikson, Jessie Alise. "Phonological Transfer during Word Learning: Evidence from Bilingual School-Age Spanish-English-Speaking Children." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613100.

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Purpose: This study examines potential cross-linguistic effects on accuracy of codas in newly learned English-like nonwords produced by bilingual Spanish-English-speaking children. Methods: Forty-two bilingual Spanish-English-speaking second-graders (age 7-9) were matched individually with monolingual peers on age (+/- 6 months), sex, and percentile score on the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation (GFTA-2; Goldman & Fristoe, 2000), and matched for group on mother's level of education. Participants named various sea monsters as part of computerized word-learning games. Sixteen syllable-final c

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Gränsbo, Gustav. "Word Clustering in an Interactive Text Analysis Tool." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Interaktiva och kognitiva system, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-157497.

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A central operation of users of the text analysis tool Gavagai Explorer is to look through a list of words and arrange them in groups. This thesis explores the use of word clustering to automatically arrange the words in groups intended to help users. A new word clustering algorithm is introduced, which attempts to produce word clusters tailored to be small enough for a user to quickly grasp the common theme of the words. The proposed algorithm computes similarities among words using word embeddings, and clusters them using hierarchical graph clustering. Multiple variants of the algorithm are

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Benom, Carey. "An empirical study of English 'through' : lexical semantics, polysemy, and the correctness fallacy /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1404336481&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 342-374). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Olivero, Irene. "On the semantics of artifactual and social kind terms." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3426327.

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Hilary Putnam’s proposal of extending the scope of his famous externalist semantic theory to artifactual (e.g. ‘pencil’, ‘chair’, ‘television’, etc.) and social kind terms (e.g. ‘pediatrician’, ‘university’, ‘money’, etc.) has opened an ongoing debate, which is the main focus and basis of the present work. By contrast, the same semantic account limited to words for natural substances and species (e.g. ‘water’, ‘gold’, ‘tiger’, etc.) has become very popular and quite widely adopted, since it seems to give a convincing explanation of how the semantics of these terms works. The first part of the

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Cederblad, Gustav. "Finding Synonyms in Medical Texts : Creating a system for automatic synonym extraction from medical texts." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-149643.

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This thesis describes the work of creating an automatic system for identifying synonyms and semantically related words in medical texts. Before this work, as a part of the project E-care@home, medical texts have been classified as either lay or specialized by both a lay annotator and an expert annotator. The lay annotator, in this case, is a person without any medical knowledge, whereas the expert annotator has professional knowledge in medicine. Using these texts made it possible to create co-occurrences matrices from which the related words could be identified. Fifteen medical terms were cho

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Fu, Hao. "Semantic image understanding : from pixel to word." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12847/.

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The aim of semantic image understanding is to reveal the semantic meaning behind the image pixel. This thesis investigates problems related to semantic image understanding, and have made the following contributions. Our first contribution is to propose the usage of histogram matching in Multiple Kernel Learning. We treat the two-dimensional kernel matrix as an image and transfer the histogram matching algorithm in image processing to kernel matrix. Experiments on various computer vision and machine learning datasets have shown that our method can always boost the performance of state of the ar

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Rabovsky, Milena. "Semantic richness effects in visual word processing." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17073.

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Lesen zielt darauf ab, Bedeutung aus geschriebenem Text zu extrahieren. Interessanterweise unterscheiden sich Wörter beträchtlich hinsichtlich der Menge mit ihnen assoziierter Bedeutung, und es wurde kürzlich gezeigt, dass eine hohe Bedeutungshaltigkeit lexikalische und semantische Aufgaben erleichtert. Die vorliegende Dissertation kombiniert ereigniskorrelierte Potentiale (EKPs) und konnektionistische Modellierung, um einige offene Fragen zur Rolle der Bedeutungshaltigkeit bei der Wortverarbeitung anzugehen. Hierbei wurden EKPs verwendet, um den Zeitverlauf unabhängiger Einflüsse der Anzahl s

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Granlund, Ann-Louise. "Comparing Emotional Intensity Between Languages: A parallel corpus Investigation on the Swedish word Njuta and its English equivalents." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22490.

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Denna uppsats utforskar känslomässigt semantiska skillnader mellan ordet "njuta" och dess engelska motsvarigheter. Genom en empirisk engelsk-svensk parallell-corpus undersökning kommer jag försöka visa variationen i semantisk definition i ordets användning. Syftet är att demonstrera, i enlighet med min hypotes, att de engelska motsvarigheterna till det svenska ordet "njuta" är mindre känslomässigt laddade och att det svenska ordet är mera intensivt och semantiskt starkare än engelskans "enjoy".<br>This paper seeks to investigate the emotional semantic differences between the Swedish word "njut

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Luzhkova, Elena. "Ongoing Semantic Change in Seven Swedish Words : A questionnaire-based study." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-118029.

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The lexical semantics of a language is an area of linguistics that has many important implications for the life of modern society. It is important to understand how language change works and why this change occurs. Thus the aim of the work described in the thesis was to examine how six Swedish words, fett, fräsch, fräck, grym, häftig, and tajt are used by five different age groups of Swedish people in Uppsala region. To accomplish the aim of the study an appropriate questionnaire was compiled and used by the author. The questionnaire asked for information about the respondents as well as about

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Howell-Fellows, Scott E. "Phonological mediation of semantics in visual word recognition, when a beach is a beach or a beach is a beech." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0021/MQ48014.pdf.

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Smith, Kelly. "The Rumble in the Disambiguation Jungle : Towards the comparison of a traditional word sense disambiguation system with a novel paraphrasing system." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Avdelningen för datorlingvistik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-61642.

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Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the process of computationally identifying and labeling poly- semous words in context with their correct meaning, known as a sense. WSD is riddled with various obstacles that must be overcome in order to reach its full potential. One of these problems is the aspect of the representation of word meaning. Traditional WSD algorithms make the assumption that a word in a given context has only one meaning and therfore can return only one discrete sense. On the other hand, a novel approach is that a given word can have multiple senses. Studies on graded word sense

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Lyalka, Oksana. "Mechanisms underpinning semantic priming in spoken word retrieval." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3716.

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A number of studies have shown that speed and accuracy of word retrieval may be affected by the previous retrieval of a word with similar semantic meaning. This phenomenon is called semantic priming and includes both semantic interference or and facilitation. While there is a clear evidence for the presence of semantic priming, the mechanisms causing this effect are still under debate. Therefore, the goal of this PhD was to provide evidence regarding these mechanisms by systematically evaluating the effect of primes with different semantic relations on the speed and accuracy of spoken word ret

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Eskenazi, Michael A. "Word skipping and parafoveal semantic activation during reading." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1467377665.

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