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Heavy‐duty conceptual engineering
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Conceptual engineering is the process of assessing and improving our conceptual repertoire. Some authors have claimed that introducing or revising concepts through conceptual engineering can go as far as expanding the realm of thinkable thoughts and thus enable us to form beliefs, hypotheses, wishes, or desires that we are currently unable to ...
Steffen Koch, Jakob Ohlhorst
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Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract It is overwhelmingly plausible that part of what gives individuals their particular legal or institutional statuses is the fact that there are general laws or other policies in place that specify the conditions under which something is to have those statuses.
Louis deRosset
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Social movements and the synecdoche problem
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
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WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION USING FUZZY SEMANTIC-BASED STRING SIMILARITY MODEL
Malaysian Journal of Computing, 2018 Sentences are the language of human communication. This communication medium is so fluid that words and meaning can have many interpretations by readers.
Amir Abd-Rashid, Shuzlina Abdul-Rahman, Nor Nadiah Yusof, Azlinah Mohamed
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Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper gives a new account of the actuality entailments of ability claims. We observe that, in the environments which give rise to the actuality entailment, ability claims carry a presupposition of trying. We show that, given this presupposition, the actuality entailment is straightforwardly predicted by a conditional theory of ability. We
David Boylan, Ginger Schultheis
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A Systematic Analysis of Various Word Sense Disambiguation Approaches
Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence JournalThe process of finding the correct sense of a word in context is known as word sense disambiguation (WSD). In the field of natural language processing, WSD has become a growing research area.
Chandra Ganesh +3 more
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Sense Tagging: Semantic Tagging with a Lexicon
, 1997 Sense tagging, the automatic assignment of the appropriate sense from some lexicon to each of the words in a text, is a specialised instance of the general problem of semantic tagging by category or type. We discuss which recent word sense disambiguation
Stevenson, Mark, Wilks, Yorick
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Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To measure is to err. Serving both numeric and non‐numeric measurement, the language of measurement refers to margins of error, within which measurement reports locate their measurements. Such reports and reasoning from them invoke what is known and what is known to be known about error‐strewn measurement to derive and contrast the ...
Barry Schein
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Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We explore the consequences of a natural and well‐motivated modeling assumption of Bayesian epistemology, according to which the objects of credence are sentences in the agent's language. We show that this assumption is inconsistent with two further natural Bayesian idealizations: those of Logical Perfection (the logical‐deductive consistency ...
John Hawthorne, Juhani Yli‐Vakkuri
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