Evaluating the Irregularity of Natural Languages [PDF]
In the present work, we quantify the irregularity of different European languages belonging to four linguistic families (Romance, Germanic, Uralic and Slavic) and an artificial language (Esperanto). We modified a well-known method to calculate the approximate and sample entropy of written texts. We find differences in the degree of irregularity between
Candelario Hernández-Gómez +3 more
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The polarity effect of evaluative language
Recent research on thick terms like “rude” and “friendly” has revealed a polarity effect, according to which the evaluative content of positive thick terms like “friendly” and “courageous” can be more easily canceled than the evaluative content of negative terms like “rude” and “selfish”.
Baumgartner, Lucien +2 more
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Evaluating the Evaluation of Diversity in Natural Language Generation [PDF]
Despite growing interest in natural language generation (NLG) models that produce diverse outputs, there is currently no principled method for evaluating the diversity of an NLG system. In this work, we propose a framework for evaluating diversity metrics.
Tevet, Guy, Berant, Jonathan
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Evaluative conditioning of artificial grammars: evidence that subjectively-unconscious structures bias affective evaluations of novel stimuli [PDF]
Evaluative conditioning (EC) refers to the acquisition of emotional valence by an initially-neutral stimulus (conditioned stimulus; CS), after being paired with an emotional stimulus (unconditioned stimulus; US).
Costea, Andrei +4 more
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Critical thinking, as one of the competences to be developed at universities, requires the ability to evaluate. Though different parts of speech can fall under the category of evaluative language, adjectives are among the most frequently used means to ...
Lina Bikelienė
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Sygnalizowanie miejsc spornych w dyskursie sądowym. Analiza korpusowa wybranych rzeczowników występujących w orzeczeniach Sądu Najwyższego Stanów Zjednoczonych oraz Trybunału Konstytucyjnego w Polsce [PDF]
This paper adopts a comparative, corpus-based perspective to examine the language of judicial justification. Based on substantial corpus data, the study explores one of the linguistics resources, i.e. head nouns (e.g.
GOŹDŹ-ROSZKOWSKI, Stanisław
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Evaluating spoken language interaction [PDF]
To study the spoken language interface in the context of a complex problem-solving task, a group of users were asked to perform a spreadsheet task, alternating voice and keyboard input. A total of 40 tasks were performed by each participant, the first thirty in a group (over several days), the remaining ones a month later. The voice spreadsheet program
Alexander I. Rudnicky +2 more
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Evaluating Multimedia and Language Tasks [PDF]
Evaluating information access tasks, including textual and multimedia search, question answering, and understanding has been the core mission of NIST's Retrieval Group since 1989. The TRECVID Evaluations of Multimedia Access began in 2001 with a goal of driving content-based search technology for multimedia just as its progenitor, the Text Retrieval ...
Ian Soboroff +5 more
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Evaluating the Efficacy of Summarization Evaluation across Languages [PDF]
Findings of ACL ...
Fajri Koto, Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin
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Evaluative Language in High-Stakes Public Speaking: A Corpus Analysis of Miss Universe Q&A Sessions
This paper is part of a broader research project examining evaluative language in the high-stakes public speaking context of the Miss Universe (MU) pageant, contributing to our understanding of spontaneous speech patterns. It investigates the evaluative
Long Viet Le, Lien-Huong Vo
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