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Don't Blame Distributional Semantics if it can't do Entailment [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2019
Distributional semantics has had enormous empirical success in Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science in modeling various semantic phenomena, such as semantic similarity, and distributional models are widely used in state-of-the-art Natural ...
Boleda, Gemma, Westera, Matthijs
core   +4 more sources

Long‐term musical training induces white matter plasticity in emotion and language networks

open access: yesHuman Brain Mapping, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 5-17, January 2023., 2023
Musical training (both voice and piano) could enhance connectivity among emotion‐related regions of the brain, such as the amygdala. Voice training reshaped the architecture of experience‐dependent networks, such as those involved in vocal motor control, sensory feedback, and language processing. Long‐term musical training can strengthen or prune white
Li‐Kai Cheng   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional brain networks underlying the interaction between central and peripheral processes involved in Chinese handwriting in children and adults

open access: yesHuman Brain Mapping, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 142-155, January 2023., 2023
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, this study offers novel neural evidence for the interaction between central and peripheral processes in handwriting from the perspective of functional brain networks. The manipulation of a central variable induced reconfigurations of the somatomotor network and the cerebellar network, networks known to serve
Junjun Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualizing, defining, and assessing pragmatic language impairment in clinical settings: A scoping review

open access: yesInfant and Child Development, Volume 31, Issue 6, November/December 2022., 2022
Abstract There has been significant and extensive knowledge production in the last four decades regarding pragmatic language impairment (PLI) in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. The evidence contained in this literature, however, is contradictory. The present scoping review (ScR) seeks to disentangle competing explanations of conceptualizing,
Ahmed Alduais   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Undergraduate biology students' model‐based reasoning in the laboratory: Exploring the role of drawings, talk, and gestures

open access: yesScience Education, Volume 107, Issue 1, Page 124-148, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper reports on a case study of undergraduate biology students' drawing‐based modeling and how this process plays out in naturalistic dialogues. Recent research has revealed the importance of drawings, talk, and gestures in students' model‐based reasoning.
Mari Sjøberg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

L2 semantics from a formal linguistic perspective [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage Teaching, 2018
Ever since Aristotle and Plato (The Categories; Cratylus), linguists have considered language to be the pairing of form (sounds or gestures or written strings) and meaning. This is true for all meaningful linguistic units from morphemes, through words, phrases and sentences, to discourse.
openaire   +2 more sources

Features requirement elicitation process for designing a chatbot application

open access: yesIET Networks, EarlyView., 2022
This article seeks to assist the chatbot community by outlining the characteristics that a chatbot needs to possess and explaining how to create a chatbot for a bank. In order to determine which capabilities are most crucial to ending users, a study of a small sample of chatbot users was conducted.
Nurul Muizzah Johari   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards semiotically driven empirical studies of ballet as a communicative form

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022
This paper treats dance as a movement-based semiotic system, focusing on classical ballet as an example in order to show how dance can be made accessible to both detailed description and empirical investigation as a form of communication.
Arianna Maiorani   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Describing Linguistic Vagueness of Evaluative Expressions Using Fuzzy Natural Logic and Linguistic Constraints

open access: yesMathematics, 2022
In recent years, the study of evaluative linguistic expressions has crossed the field of theoretical linguistics and has aroused interest in very different research areas such as artificial intelligence, psychology or cognitive linguistics.
Adrià Torrens-Urrutia   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Distributivity in Formal Semantics

open access: yesAnnual Review of Linguistics, 2019
Distributivity in natural language occurs in sentences such as John and Mary (each) took a deep breath, when a predicate that is combined with a plurality-denoting expression is understood as holding of each of the members of that plurality.
Lucas Champollion
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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