REPRESENTATION OF A DIFFICULT SITUATION BY THE SUBJECT: FEATURES OF FORMAL AND CONCEPTUAL INDICATORS

The article analyzes formal and conceptual indicators of the representation of a difficult situation. There was carried out а theoretical analysis of the representation of a difficult situation. Fundamental methodological provisions of our research are: the main postulates of the theory of mental reflection (B. G. Ananiev, B. F. Lomov, S. L. Rubinstein, B. M. Teplov, etc.); theses of experimental psychosemantics on semantic units and methods of analysis of subjective semantic spaces (V. P. Serkin, V. A. Skleinis, etc.); provisions on the psychological validity of formal and conceptual indicators of psychological representation (V. V. Znakov, A. B. Kupreichenko, G. V. Shukova); the provisions of the approach on the cognitive assessment of a difficult life situation (E. V. Bityutskaya). The purpose of the article is to determine the indicators of representation of a difficult situation and to analyze the severity of these indicators. The modern situation in psychology demonstrates the activity of addressing the interpretation of the phenomenon of a difficult situation, which is especially significant in the complex, constantly changing conditions of the subject's vital activities. In the broadest sense, representation is understood as a cognitive procedure that enables the subject to construct and model both reality as a whole and its individual elements. It is worth mentioning that there are many semantic shades in the definition of the concept "difficult situation", since the researchers actualize different components of the construct "difficult". According to the most general universal interpretation, "difficult" is defined as "requiring a lot of work, effort, and intensity". On the basis of empirical material collected in the structural unit of the railway, the article analyzes the features of formal and conceptual indicators of the representation of a difficult situation. The article contains the results of the empirical research. 300 respondents took part in the research. There were used the following methodological tools : associative experiment, method of semantic universals, content analysis, graphical representation of representation and a technique aimed at obtaining data on the subjective assessment of a difficult situation. The data obtained allow us to conclude that the formal indicators of the representation are represented by size and structure (represented by the scales "simplicity-complexity" and "core-periphery"); conceptual indicators of representation are represented by a qualitative composition of elements (technological, emotional, communicative components) and a subjective assessment of a difficult situation (a general assessment of the difficulty of the situation and the adequacy of the subject's resources with the requirements of the situation).

Learning Sense Representation from Word Representation for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation (Student Abstract)

Unsupervised WSD methods do not rely on annotated training datasets and can use WordNet. Since each ambiguous word in the WSD task exists in WordNet and each sense of the word has a gloss, we propose SGM and MGM to learn sense representations for words in WordNet using the glosses. In the WSD task, we calculate the similarity between each sense of the ambiguous word and its context to select the sense with the highest similarity. We evaluate our method on several benchmark WSD datasets and achieve better performance than the state-of-the-art unsupervised WSD systems.

The Representation of Limbus: A Discourse Analysis of Upendra Subba’s “Dumb Hill”

What is the literary value of representing the culture of common people and making cultural discourse of marginality? For what purpose do the writers represent everyday lives, experiences, and cultural practices of marginalised groups? To answer these questions, this paper attempts to analyse Upendra Subba’s “Dumb Hill,” the title story of the anthology Dumb Hill, aiming to explore the whole way of life of ethnic Limbu people of Panchthar district, the eastern part of Nepal, including their lifestyles, socio-economic conditions, cultural values, and practices. It tries to interpret the purpose of representing everyday lives and cultural practices of common Limbu people. To interpret the text, Michel Foucault’s concept of discourse and power/knowledge, and Stuart Hall’s concept of representation have been applied as the theoretical tools to achieve the objectives of the study. Foucault argues that there is no truth, but truths which are constructed by power/knowledge and defined by the discourse. Discourse produces, constructs and defines a body of knowledge or truths. Hall undertakes the representation as a process and practice of conveying the meaning using the material objects or images, which are selected and constituted by power. In this sense, representation is a cultural product rather than an autonomous process of constructing a meaning. From this light, the story as a cultural discourse of marginality produces and defines overshadowed body of knowledge about ethnic Limbu people through discursive representation of Limbu people, and their distinctive cultural practices. This study provides a new insight to see and understand Limbu People’s distinctive ways of life that have been ignored and unheard in the dominant literary discourses.

From Word To Sense Embeddings: A Survey on Vector Representations of Meaning

Over the past years, distributed semantic representations have proved to be effective and flexible keepers of prior knowledge to be integrated into downstream applications. This survey focuses on the representation of meaning. We start from the theoretical background behind word vector space models and highlight one of their major limitations: the meaning conflation deficiency, which arises from representing a word with all its possible meanings as a single vector. Then, we explain how this deficiency can be addressed through a transition from the word level to the more fine-grained level of word senses (in its broader acceptation) as a method for modelling unambiguous lexical meaning. We present a comprehensive overview of the wide range of techniques in the two main branches of sense representation, i.e., unsupervised and knowledge-based. Finally, this survey covers the main evaluation procedures and applications for this type of representation, and provides an analysis of four of its important aspects: interpretability, sense granularity, adaptability to different domains and compositionality.