Results 261 to 270 of about 39,995 (281)

Evidential strategies in English: not just lexical

Folia Linguistica
Abstract English is generally considered to lack grammaticalized evidential markers (Aikhenvald 2004. Evidentiality. Oxford: Oxford University Press). However, Mélac (2022. The grammaticalization of evidentiality in English. English Language and Linguistics 26(2).
openaire   +1 more source

Evidential Rejection Strategy for Neural Network Classifiers

1997
In this paper we present an approach to estimation of the confidences of competing classification decisions based on the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence. It allows us to utilize information contained in the activations of all output nodes of a neural network, as opposed to just one or two highest, as it is usually done in current literature.
openaire   +1 more source

Evidential strategies in receiver-directed talk: The case of English inferential adverbs

Lingua, 2019
The aim of this paper is to examine the types of evidential meaning expressed by clearly and obviously in receiver-directed talk, and to identify their interpersonal functions. It focuses on their uses in utterances containing the second person pronoun subject, excerpted from the British National Corpus.
openaire   +1 more source

Notice of Retraction: Prioritize urban e-strategy based on the group evidential reasoning approach

2011 International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (ICEE), 2011
Urban E-strategy is often characterized by a large number of factors that are qualitative and can only be assessed on human judgments. So, it needs to be analyzed using methods that can handle uncertainties such as ignorance and fuzziness. In this paper all assessment information is modeled using a unified framework of a belief structure.
Zhicheng Chen, Qinghua Bai
openaire   +1 more source

Selection of optimum maintenance strategy for power plant equipment based on evidential reasoning and FMEA

2008 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2008
Aiming at the problem that it is difficult to select optimum maintenance strategy for power plant equipment, a method based on criticality evaluation and failure mode characteristic analysis is put forward. In the method, the uncertainty and incompletion of criticality evaluation factors are completely considered, qualitative and quantitative evidences
Y. L. Dong, Y. J. Gu, X.F. Dong
openaire   +1 more source

Logophoric Marking and Represented Speech in African Languages as Evidential Hedging Strategies

Australian Journal of Linguistics, 2001
Logophoric markers are common in two African language families, Niger–Congo and Nilo-Saharan. In addition, they are found in neighbouring Afroasiatic languages. Similar markers have been observed, for example, for Indo-European languages or Japanese.
openaire   +1 more source

Epistemic and evidential legitimization strategies in English and Spanish medical research article abstracts

2022
This presentation explores the categories of evidentiality, i.e. the mode of knowing, and epistemic modality, i.e. judgements about certainty, in a corpus of English and Spanish abstracts in the field of medicine written in the last decades by native speakers of these languages.
Álvarez Gil, Francisco José, Domínguez Morales, María Elena   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

An Evidential and Context-Aware Recommendation Strategy to Enhance Interactions with Smart Spaces

2013
This work describes a novel strategy implementing a context-aware recommendation system. It has been conceived to offer an intelligent selection of micro-services used to orchestrate networks of smart objects taking into account users’ needs and preferences.
Josué Iglesias, Ana M. Bernardos, José R. Casar   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Sensing Strategies for Early Diagnosis of Cancer by Swarm of Nanorobots: An Evidential Paradigm

2012
Precancerous states are necessarily characterized by the simultaneous and persistent occurrence of high temperature, high concentration of pyruvic and lactic acids and low pH. These physico-chemical features may thus be viewed as the fingerprint of a growing tumour.
G. F. Cerofolini, P. Amato
openaire   +1 more source

Evidential Strategies in Chinese Social‐Mediated Communication: A Digital Conversation‐Analytic Approach

International Journal of Applied Linguistics
ABSTRACT This article aims to expand upon existing research on evidentiality in asynchronous online communication when the language of Covid‐19 has been circulating in China's public discourse since late 2019. Drawing upon the methodology informed by digital conversation analysis, we conducted in‐depth research to identify and ...
openaire   +1 more source