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Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2022 This paper proposes a method for estimating the abstractness of Dutch historical parliamentary speeches. The degree to which language is abstract or concrete has gained significant attention in the field of cognitive science and linguistics.
Ruben Ros
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Abstracting abstract machines [PDF]
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming, 2010 We describe a derivational approach to abstract interpretation that yields novel and transparently sound static analyses when applied to well-established abstract machines. To demonstrate the technique and support our claim, we transform the CEK machine of Felleisen and Friedman, a lazy variant of Krivine's machine, and the stack-inspecting CM machine ...
Van Horn, David, Might, Matthew
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A Multi-Dictionary Approach to Abstractness/Concreteness-Based Authorship Attribution
Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2023 We present some early results from a research project aimed at exploring the usefulness of abstractness/concreteness as stylistic features for authorship attribution.
Lubomir Ivanov
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Distributional Measures of Semantic Abstraction
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2022 This article provides an in-depth study of distributional measures for distinguishing between degrees of semantic abstraction. Abstraction is considered a “central construct in cognitive science” (Barsalou, 2003) and a “process of information reduction ...
Sabine Schulte im Walde +1 more
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Learning Concept Abstractness Using Weak Supervision [PDF]
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2018 We introduce a weakly supervised approach for inferring the property of abstractness of words and expressions in the complete absence of labeled data. Exploiting only minimal linguistic clues and the contextual usage of a concept as manifested in textual
Ella Rabinovich +6 more
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Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021 In this paper, the problem of using a morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract nouns and other lexico-grammatical categories of the Russian language was studied.
Yu.A. Volskaya
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Neural substrates of figurative language during natural speech perception: an fMRI study
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2013 Many figurative expressions are fully conventionalized in everyday speech. Regarding the neural basis of figurative language processing, research has predominantly focused on metaphoric expressions in minimal semantic context.
Arne eNagels +5 more
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Semantic Density and Gravity in Lay-oriented Medical Knowledge Communication
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2022 This article explores a particular medico-pharmaceutical genre called the European Assessment Report (EPAR) summary for the public, aimed at a lay readership. The texts provide general information about specific medicinal products and report the outcome
Aage Hill-Madsen
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NeuroImage, 2021 Current theories of pre-attentive change detection suggest a regularity or prediction violation mechanism involving a frontotemporal network. Modulations of the early inferior frontal cortex (IFC) mismatch response representing the effort in comparing a ...
Chun-Yu Tse +3 more
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Representations of refugees: linguistic abstractness and social perceptions
Ψυχολογία: το Περιοδικό της Ελληνικής Ψυχολογικής Εταιρείας, 2023 The paper examines the relationship among stereotype content, essentialism, and preferred language abstraction in refugee media representations. In two studies, participants were asked to choose captions of differential degree of language abstraction ...
Ελένη Λυπουρλή +1 more
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