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Visual Components to Interpretation—Formal Approaches to Visible Meaning
ABSTRACT Visual components of communication interact with the core linguistic system at all levels and make an important contribution to the meaning of the utterance expressed. This does not only apply to sign languages, which exclusively rely on the visual channel, but also co‐speech gestures and emojis, which are visual means that accompany and ...
Cornelia Ebert +2 more
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Knowledge-based biomedical word sense disambiguation: an evaluation and application to clinical document classification. [PDF]
Garla VN, Brandt C.
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Taking Risks, With and Without Probabilities
ABSTRACT Some hold that expected utility is too restrictive in the way it handles risk. Risk‐weighted expected utility is an alternative that allows decision‐makers to have a range of attitudes toward probabilistic risk. It holds that any attitude within this range is instrumentally rational, since these attitudes represent different, equally good ...
Lara Buchak
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ABSTRACT Purity is the principle that fundamental facts only have fundamental constituents. In recent years, it has played a significant (if sometimes implicit) role in metaphysical theorizing. A philosopher will argue that a fact [p]$[p]$ contains a derivative entity and cite Purity as a reason to deny that [p]$[p]$ is fundamental. I argue that recent
Samuel Z. Elgin
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Ideology on Trial: How CEO Political Leanings Shape Firms' Propensity to Litigate Over Patents
ABSTRACT This study investigates how CEOs' political ideology affects corporate decisions to sue for patent infringement. Integrating upper‐echelons and behavioral‐agency perspectives, we theorize that conservative‐leaning CEOs—marked by heightened threat sensitivity and low tolerance for ambiguity—frame infringement as a looming loss and therefore ...
Ali Radfard, Luca Pistilli
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The Noisy Channel Model for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation
Deniz Yuret, Mehmet Ali Yatbaz
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Abstract Biomass‐burning smoke drives large uncertainty in climate projections of the Earth's radiative balance. This is due to the chemical and physical evolution of smoke and its impact on clouds and radiation. Here we focus on the southeastern Atlantic region and its inflow of African biomass‐burning smoke during August 2017.
Calvin Howes +10 more
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Do Linking‐Expression Substitutions Mitigate Deterministic Interpretations of Genetic Information?
ABSTRACT It is a common concern that broader audiences interpret scientific information about the genetic correlates and causes of complex human traits in an overly deterministic manner. A frequently proposed way to address this issue is to carefully select the linking expressions used to describe gene–trait relationships when communicating genetic ...
Riin Kõiv
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Exploiting MeSH indexing in MEDLINE to generate a data set for word sense disambiguation. [PDF]
Jimeno-Yepes AJ, McInnes BT, Aronson AR.
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