scholarly journals Adding Compound Splitting and Analysis to a Semantic Tagger of Modern Standard Finnish – On the Way to FiSTComp

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimmo Kettunen
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
Semantic Tagging ◽  
Dependency Parser ◽  
Modern Standard ◽  
The Way

This study continues a work in progress for implementing a full-text lexical semantic tagger for Finnish, FiST. The tagger is based on a 46,226 lexeme semantic lexicon of Finnish that was published in 2016 [1]. Kettunen [2], [3] describes the basic working version of FiST. FiST is based on freely available components: the first implementation uses Omorfi and FinnPos for morphological analysis and disambiguation of Finnish words. The current paper describes work with compound splitting for semantic tagging and its effects on the lexical coverage of the tagger. We try out two different approaches to morphological analysis and disambiguation of words for an improved version of FiST, FiSTComp: FinnPos [4], and Turku Dependency Parser [5], [6], UD1. Both these tools disambiguate morphological interpretations of words and provide boundary markings for compounds, but details and granularity of constituent decomposition vary. Our results with two-, three and four-part compounds show that analysis of compounds through their constituents with UD1 may improve the lexical coverage of the tagger with about 6.6 % units at best. Although we are able to proceed in basic problems of compound splitting, the results are still initial and further work is needed as compounds are a complex phenomenon.

scholarly journals Oversized Area Indications on Bonus Packs Fail to Affect Consumers’ Transactional Decisions—More Experimental Evidence on the Mars Case

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. P. Purnhagen ◽  
E. van Herpen ◽  
S. Kamps ◽  
F. Michetti
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Legal Interpretation ◽  
Eu Legislation ◽  
Behavioural Research ◽  
Actual Choice ◽  
Unfair Commercial Practices Directive ◽  
Legal Sense ◽  
The Way

AbstractFindings from behavioural research are gaining increased interest in EU legislation, specifically in the area of unfair commercial practices. Prior research on the Mars case (Purnhagen and van Herpen 2017) has left open whether empirical evidence can provide an indication that this practice of using oversized indications of additional volume alters the transactional decision of consumers. This, however, is required to determine the “misleadingness” of such a practice in the legal sense as stipulated by the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive 2005/29/EC. The current paper closes this gap by illustrating how behavioural research can inform legal interpretation. In particular, it extends the previous research in two important ways: first, by examining the actual choice that people make; and second, by investigating whether the effects remain present in a context where a comparison product is available. Yet, while supporting and extending the findings of the study from Purnhagen and van Herpen (2017) on deceptiveness, the current study could not produce empirical evidence of a clear influence on the transactional decision of consumers, in the way “UCPD” requires.

A Socio-pragmatic Analysis of Taboo Language Using Animal Names in Facebook Messenger in the Jordanian Setting: A Gender-Based Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-430
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
University Students ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Taboo Words ◽  
Animal Names ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Way

The current paper aimed to investigate taboo language using animal names in Facebook Messenger in the Jordanian setting based on the context where it appeared. A total of (100) male and female university students answered a questionnaire devised to examine the way how students use taboo language. It was noticed that "pig" recorded the highest frequency of occurrence comprising (11.59) of the total number of the taboo words followed by "dog" and "bitch". Important differences were observed in the frequency and use of taboo words by male (68. 8 %) and female (32.2%) students. The study explained the reasons why such words were deemed taboo in the Jordanian setting taking into consideration the socio-cultural and religious norms of the society. The study also concluded that taboo language was used to express different themes such as humor, relaxation, anger and abuse. Keywords: Taboo Language, Gender Differences, Themes, Socio-Pragmatic, Facebook Messenger.

Looked Class, Talked Red: towards a bio-bibliography of Ruth First

Race & Class ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-58
Author(s):  
Barbara Harlow
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Political History ◽  
Intellectual Biography ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
Ruth First ◽  
African Writer ◽  
The Way

This article includes material from a work-in-progress, Barbara Harlow’s major book on South African writer and political activist, Ruth First, assassinated in 1982. Ruth First’s own life followed many paths, intersecting along the way with several historical trajectories, national narratives that remain incomplete today, and political events and eventualities that are still being negotiated, contested and resisted. The author follows these paths in an attempt to locate a framework and a direction for writing what she calls a bio-bibliography, an intellectual biography that is at once a political history.

A Carbon Pricing Work in Progress

2018 ◽  
pp. 163-184
Author(s):  
Barry G. Rabe
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Cap And Trade ◽  
Canadian Province ◽  
Carbon Pricing ◽  
Strong Base ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Full Operation ◽  
The Way

California may be on the way toward replicating the experience of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, as it moves beyond early stages into full operation as a cap-and-trade system. It formally partners with one Canadian province, Quebec, and has begun to expand beyond its original focus on electricity. The program has experienced a number of significant challenges to longer-term operations but has retained a strong base of political support and could be poised to become a leading example of cap-and-trade effectiveness.

The verbs ‘rain’ and ‘snow’ in Gallo-Romance, and other morphological mismatches in diachrony

2020 ◽  
pp. 385-402
Author(s):  
Martin Maiden
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Similarity ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Morphological Changes ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
Word Forms ◽  
Entire Word

The historical morphology of the verb ‘snow’ in Francoprovençal presents a conundrum, in that it is clearly analogically influenced by the verb ‘rain’, for obvious reasons of lexical semantic similarity, but the locus of that influence is not the ‘root’ (the ostensible bearer of lexical meaning) but desinential inflexion-class members, which are in principle independent of any lexical meaning. Similar morphological changes are also identified for other Gallo-Romance verbs. It seems, in effect, that speakers can identify exponents of the lexical meaning of word-forms in linear sequences larger than the apparent ‘morphemic’ composition of those word-forms, even when such a composition may seem prima facie transparent and obvious. It is argued that these facts are inherently incompatible with ‘constructivist’, morpheme-based, models of morphology, and strongly compatible with what have been called ‘abstractivist’ (‘word-and-paradigm’) approaches, which generally take entire word-forms as the primary units of morphological analysis.

scholarly journals A Graph-based Lattice Dependency Parser for Joint Morphological Segmentation and Syntactic Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 359-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Seeker ◽  
Özlem Çetinoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Morphological Segmentation ◽  
Joint Task ◽  
Dependency Tree ◽  
First Results ◽  
Input Sentence ◽  
Dependency Parser

Space-delimited words in Turkish and Hebrew text can be further segmented into meaningful units, but syntactic and semantic context is necessary to predict segmentation. At the same time, predicting correct syntactic structures relies on correct segmentation. We present a graph-based lattice dependency parser that operates on morphological lattices to represent different segmentations and morphological analyses for a given input sentence. The lattice parser predicts a dependency tree over a path in the lattice and thus solves the joint task of segmentation, morphological analysis, and syntactic parsing. We conduct experiments on the Turkish and the Hebrew treebank and show that the joint model outperforms three state-of-the-art pipeline systems on both data sets. Our work corroborates findings from constituency lattice parsing for Hebrew and presents the first results for full lattice parsing on Turkish.

Public Budget Reform and Reform Failure in a Market Model

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
Matthew Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Public Budget ◽  
The Public ◽  
Budget Reform ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Budgeting Process ◽  
The Way

Abstract Budgeting theories have not been able to explain why reforms have a limited influence on the budgeting process [JOYCE, 1993]. The current paper proposes a market-based theory of budget reform, which combines the public choice model with new institutional dunking, in the spirit of authors like Kraan [1996]. The dieory unfolds into specific hypodieses about the way in which reform adoption is dependent on the authority of budgeting bureaucrats to adopt reforms, the level of reform acceptance among these bureaucrats and politicians, and the ability of bureaucrats to adopt the reforms. The first two factors, authority and acceptance, are argued to be more important than ability in influencing the level of budget reform adoption.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMATION OF FORM IN THE GROWTH OF MODERN JAVANESE HOUSE IN LAWEYAN SURAKARTA

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 288-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Untung Joko CAHYONO ◽  
Bambang SETIOKO ◽  
Titin Woro MURTINI
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Structural System ◽  
The Look ◽  
Form Transformation ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Way

Javanese house tradition grows and develops along time. In the modern era, the development of materials technology, both from the Javanese community and from the European experts, has influenced the way to build a house among the Javanese community. Visible changes are so radical in the use of materials and structural system of the building that they influence the look and shape of the house. The purpose of this research is to study the form transformation in the growth of modern Javanese houses at Kampung Batik Laweyan Surakarta. Laweyan is the traditional Javanese kampung already existing in the Kingdom Pajang long before the birth of Surakarta. Morphological analysis was used to understand deformation of modern Javanese homes developed by the generations of batik entrepreneurs in the 20th century. Indicators of ‘the Javanese origin’ in modern Javanese houses are seen from the consistency of the traditional house configuration, indicated by spatial structure of pendopo, dalem, and gandok. The conclusion is that some Javanese principles still remain in developing modern houses in Laweyan, namely: (1) a house should always be developed creatively to give comfort and protection; and (2) a house should always give benefit and wealth to the owner.

scholarly journals Sense and Strategy Building in the Romanian Academy

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Meda V GÂLEA
Keyword(s):  
Current Paper ◽  
Management Activity ◽  
Romanian Academy ◽  
Strategy Building ◽  
Research Centres ◽  
The Way

The current paper aims to approach how the scientific researchers of the Romanian Academy are co-opted by the institution’s management when augmenting the strategies of development for the institutions and research centres where they perform their activities. The study has been done on a batch of 170 researchers by self-managing a questionnaire which was semi-structured and endeavoured to outline the researchers’ expectations on their mode of relating with the Academy’s management about the involvement in the development of strategies. The results show an overwhelming rate of those who wish to get involved, while the conclusions highlight the way the communication and relating is done within the institution, namely the researchers ‘expectations concerning the management activity of the Romanian Academy.

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