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Using Fuzzy Linguistic Representations to Provide Explanatory Semantics for Data Warehouses [PDF]
, 2003 A data warehouse integrates large amounts of extracted and summarized data from multiple sources for direct querying and analysis. While it provides decision makers with easy access to such historical and aggregate data, the real meaning of the data has ...
Dillon, Tharam S., Feng, Ling
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International Journal of Communication, 2023 Employing the diffusion of innovations theory, this study investigates how linguistic and message features of tweets drive information diffusion on Twitter in the case of #RevolutionNow, a 2019 Nigerian political activism event. Information diffusion was
Oluwabusayo Okunloye +3 more
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Semantic values in higher-order semantics [PDF]
, 2013 Recently, some philosophers have argued that we should take quantification of any (finite) order to be a legitimate and irreducible, sui generis kind of quantification.
Krämer, Stephan
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The comprehension and production of quantifiers in isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners
South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2016 Background: Quantifiers form part of the discourse-internal linguistic devices that children need to access and produce narratives and other classroom discourse.
Joanine Nel, Frenette Southwood
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Cognitive Processing of Verbal Quantifiers in the Context of Affirmative and Negative Sentences: a Croatian Study [PDF]
, 2016 Studies from English and German have found differences in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences. However, little attention has been given to quantifiers that form negations.
Bogunović, Irena, Ćoso, Bojana
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Natural Language and its Ontology [PDF]
, 2019 This paper gives a characterization of the ontology implicit in natural language and the entities it involves, situates natural language ontology within metaphysics, and responds to Chomskys' dismissal of externalist ...
Moltmann, Friederike
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The effect of negative polarity items on inference verification [PDF]
, 2008 The scalar approach to negative polarity item (NPI) licensing assumes that NPIs are allowable in contexts in which the introduction of the NPI leads to proposition strengthening (e.g., Kadmon & Landman 1993, Krifka 1995, Lahiri 1997 ...
Bott, Lewis +2 more
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Quantifier Scope in Formal Linguistics [PDF]
, 2010 The remarkable efficiency of language acquisition and linguistic communication must rely on some systematic mapping relating forms and meanings. As a result of this understanding, the study of the relations between syntactic and semantic descriptions has become a central element of all formal linguistic theories. Problems of quantifier scope constitute
E.G. Ruys, Yoad Winter
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The myth of occurrence-based semantics [PDF]
, 2020 The principle of compositionality requires that the meaning of a complex expression remains the same after substitution of synonymous expressions. Alleged counterexamples to compositionality seem to force a theoretical choice: either apparent synonyms ...
Pickel, Bryan, Rabern, Brian
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