Slides from a talk I gave in 2009 at Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language. Research presented was on contributions of semantic and phonological similarity to sentence comprehension. Also see related paper (Otis & Sagi, 2009).
This research describes an attempt to establish a pedagogically useful list of the most frequent semantically non-compositional multi-word combinations for English for Journalism learners in an EFL context, who need to read English news in their field of study. The list was compiled from the NOW (News on the Web) Corpus, the largest English news database by far. In consideration of opaque multi-word combinations in widespread use and pedagogical value, the researcher applied a set of selection criteria when using the corpus. Based on frequency, meaningfulness, and semantic non-compositionality, a total of 318 non-compositional multi-word combinations of 2 to 5 words with the exclusion of phrasal verbs were selected and they accounted for approximately 2% of the total words in the corpus. The list, not highly technical in nature, contains the most commonly-used multi-word units traversing various topic areas and news readers may encounter these phrasal expressions very often. As with other individual word lists, it is hoped that this opaque expressions list may serve as a reference for English for Journalism teaching.
"So, Brothers": Pauline Use of the Vocativesboisen
Joint work with Dr. Steve Runge, Presented November 17, 2007 at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
Permalink: http://semanticbible.com/other/presentations/2007-sbl-vocative/main.html
Use of the vocative by New Testament writers represents a pragmatic choice, yet there is little understanding of what motivates its use, or of its exegetical value. Most descriptions cast it as a structural marker of discourse units, corresponding to paragraph boundaries. However, many vocatives in the Greek New Testament text occur within paragraphs, calling the traditional account into question. This presentation reviews previous work on vocative use in the Greek New Testament, and briefly describes its discourse function based on its similarity to pragmatic markers in other languages. Representative examples from the Pauline corpus are examined to demonstrate the exegetical value of careful attention to vocative use.
This research describes an attempt to establish a pedagogically useful list of the most frequent semantically non-compositional multi-word combinations for English for Journalism learners in an EFL context, who need to read English news in their field of study. The list was compiled from the NOW (News on the Web) Corpus, the largest English news database by far. In consideration of opaque multi-word combinations in widespread use and pedagogical value, the researcher applied a set of selection criteria when using the corpus. Based on frequency, meaningfulness, and semantic non-compositionality, a total of 318 non-compositional multi-word combinations of 2 to 5 words with the exclusion of phrasal verbs were selected and they accounted for approximately 2% of the total words in the corpus. The list, not highly technical in nature, contains the most commonly-used multi-word units traversing various topic areas and news readers may encounter these phrasal expressions very often. As with other individual word lists, it is hoped that this opaque expressions list may serve as a reference for English for Journalism teaching.
"So, Brothers": Pauline Use of the Vocativesboisen
Joint work with Dr. Steve Runge, Presented November 17, 2007 at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
Permalink: http://semanticbible.com/other/presentations/2007-sbl-vocative/main.html
Use of the vocative by New Testament writers represents a pragmatic choice, yet there is little understanding of what motivates its use, or of its exegetical value. Most descriptions cast it as a structural marker of discourse units, corresponding to paragraph boundaries. However, many vocatives in the Greek New Testament text occur within paragraphs, calling the traditional account into question. This presentation reviews previous work on vocative use in the Greek New Testament, and briefly describes its discourse function based on its similarity to pragmatic markers in other languages. Representative examples from the Pauline corpus are examined to demonstrate the exegetical value of careful attention to vocative use.
Analyzing Arguments during a Debate using Natural Language Processing in PythonAbhinav Gupta
This presentation will guide you through the application of Python NLP Techniques to analyze arguments during a debate and define a strategy to figure out the winner of the debate on the basis of strength and relevance of the arguments.
This is made for PyCon India 2015.
For details : https://in.pycon.org/cfp/pycon-india-2015/proposals/analyzing-arguments-during-a-debate-using-natural-language-processing-in-python/
Contact me : abhinav.gpt3@gmail.com
Analyzing Arguments during a Debate using Natural Language Processing in PythonAbhinav Gupta
This presentation will guide you through the application of Python NLP Techniques to analyze arguments during a debate and define a strategy to figure out the winner of the debate on the basis of strength and relevance of the arguments.
This is made for PyCon India 2015.
For details : https://in.pycon.org/cfp/pycon-india-2015/proposals/analyzing-arguments-during-a-debate-using-natural-language-processing-in-python/
Contact me : abhinav.gpt3@gmail.com
Aletras, Nikolaos and Stevenson, Mark (2013) "Evaluating Topic Coherence Us...pathsproject
Aletras, Nikolaos and Stevenson, Mark (2013) "Evaluating Topic Coherence Using Distributional Semantics” Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2013) -- Long Papers, Potsdam, Germany
EXTRACTION OF HYPONYMY, MERONYMY, AND ANTONYMY RELATION PAIRS: A BRIEF SURVEYijnlc
Semantic dictionaries are widely used in natural language processing studies. Broad range of methods have
been proposed to construct semantic dictionaries until this time. In this study, a brief summary for semantic
relation pair extraction is introduced. An overview of selected approaches is given and results are compared
to each other for hyponymy, holonymy, and antonymy relations.
Phonetic Recognition In Words For Persian Text To Speech Systemspaperpublications3
Abstract:The interest in text to speech synthesis increased in the world .text to speech have been developed for many popular languages such as English, Spanish and French and many researches and developments have been applied to those languages. Persian on the other hand, has been given little attention compared to other languages of similar importance and the research in Persian is still in its infancy. Persian languages possess many difficulty and exceptions that increase complexity of text to speech systems. For example: short vowels is absent in written text or existence of homograph words. in this paper we propose a new method for Persian text to phonetic that base on pronunciations by analogy in words, semantic relations and grammatical rules for finding proper phonetic.Keywords:PbA, text to speech, Persian language, Phonetic recognition.
Title:Phonetic Recognition In Words For Persian Text To Speech Systems
Author:Ahmad Musavi Nasab, Ali Joharpour
International Journal of Recent Research in Mathematics Computer Science and Information Technology (IJRRMCSIT)
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