Dans cette thèse, nous décrivons la création du French FrameNet (FFN), une ressource de type FrameNet pour le français créée à partir du FrameNet de l’anglais (Baker et al., 1998) et de deux corpus arborés : le French Treebank (Abeillé et al., 2003) et le Sequoia Treebank (Candito et Seddah, 2012). La ressource séminale, le FrameNet de l’anglais, constitue un modèle d’annotation sémantique de situations prototypiques et de leurs participants. Elle propose à la fois :a) un ensemble structuré de situations prototypiques, appelées cadres, associées à des caractérisations sémantiques des participants impliqués (les rôles);b) un lexique de déclencheurs, les lexèmes évoquant ces cadres;c) un ensemble d’annotations en cadres pour l’anglais. Pour créer le FFN, nous avons suivi une approche «par domaine notionnel» : nous avons défini quatre «domaines» centrés chacun autour d’une notion (cause, communication langagière, position cognitive ou transaction commerciale), que nous avons travaillé à couvrir exhaustivement à la fois pour la définition des cadres sémantiques, la définition du lexique, et l’annotation en corpus. Cette stratégie permet de garantir une plus grande cohérence dans la structuration en cadres sémantiques, tout en abordant la polysémie au sein d’un domaine et entre les domaines. De plus, nous avons annoté les cadres de nos domaines sur du texte continu, sans sélection d’occurrences : nous préservons ainsi la distribution des caractéristiques lexicales et syntaxiques de l’évocation des cadres dans notre corpus. à l’heure actuelle, le FFN comporte 105 cadres et 873 déclencheurs distincts, qui donnent lieu à 1109 paires déclencheur-cadre distinctes, c’est-à-dire 1109 sens. Le corpus annoté compte au total 16167 annotations de cadres de nos domaines et de leurs rôles. La thèse commence par resituer le modèle FrameNet dans un contexte théorique plus large. Nous justifions ensuite le choix de nous appuyer sur cette ressource et motivons notre méthodologie en domaines notionnels. Nous explicitons pour le FFN certaines notions définies pour le FrameNet de l’anglais que nous avons jugées trop floues pour être appliquées de manière cohérente. Nous introduisons en particulier des critères plus directement syntaxiques pour la définition du périmètre lexical d’un cadre, ainsi que pour la distinction entre rôles noyaux et non-noyaux.Nous décrivons ensuite la création du FFN : d’abord, la délimitation de la structure de cadres utilisée pour le FFN, et la création de leur lexique. Nous présentons alors de manière approfondie le domaine notionnel des positions cognitives, qui englobe les cadres portant sur le degré de certitude d’un être doué de conscience sur une proposition. Puis, nous présentons notre méthodologie d’annotation du corpus en cadres et en rôles. à cette occasion, nous passons en revue certains phénomènes linguistiques qu’il nous a fallu traiter pour obtenir une annotation cohérente ; c’est par exemple le cas des constructions à attribut de l’objet.Enfin, nous présentons des données quantitatives sur le FFN tel qu’il est à ce jour et sur son évaluation. Nous terminons sur des perspectives de travaux d’amélioration et d’exploitation de la ressource créée. / This thesis describes the creation of the French FrameNet (FFN), a French language FrameNet type resource made using both the Berkeley FrameNet (Baker et al., 1998) and two morphosyntactic treebanks: the French Treebank (Abeillé et al., 2003) and the Sequoia Treebank (Candito et Seddah, 2012). The Berkeley FrameNet allows for semantic annotation of prototypical situations and their participants. It consists of:a) a structured set of prototypical situations, called frames. These frames incorporate semantic characterizations of the situations’ participants (Frame Elements, or FEs);b) a lexicon of lexical units (LUs) which can evoke those frames;c) a set of English language frame annotations. In order to create the FFN, we designed a “domain by domain” methodology: we defined four “domains”, each centered on a specific notion (cause, verbal communication, cognitive stance, or commercial transaction). We then sought to obtain full frame and lexical coverage for these domains, and annotated the first 100 corpus occurrences of each LU in our domains. This strategy guarantees a greater consistency in terms of frame structuring than other approaches and is conducive to work on both intra-domain and inter-domains frame polysemy. Our annotating frames on continuous text without selecting particular LU occurrences preserves the natural distribution of lexical and syntactic characteristics of frame-evoking elements in our corpus. At the present time, the FFNincludes 105 distinct frames and 873 distinct LUs, which combine into 1,109 LU-frame pairs (i.e. 1,109 senses). 16,167 frame occurrences, as well as their FEs, have been annotated in our corpus. In this thesis, I first situate the FrameNet model in a larger theoretical background. I then justify our using the Berkeley FrameNet as our resource base and explain why we used a domain-by- domain methodology. I next try to clarify some specific BFN notions that we found too vague to be coherently used to make the FFN. Specifically, I introduce more directly syntactic criteria both for defining a frame’s lexical perimeter and for differentiating core FEs from non-core ones.Then, I describe the FFN creation itself first by delimitating a structure of frames that will be used in the resource and by creating a lexicon for these frames. I then introduce in detail the Cognitive Stances notional domain, which includes frames having to do with a cognizer’s degree of certainty about some particular content. Next, I describe our methodology for annotating a corpus with frames and FEs, and analyze our treatment of several specific linguistic phenomena that required additional consideration (such as object complement constructions).Finally, I give quantified information about the current status of the FFN and its evaluation. I conclude with some perspectives on improving and exploiting the FFN.

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Ett fönsters värmeisolerande egenskaper är nödvändiga att känna till för den som köper fönstren eftersom det ställs krav på en byggnads energianvändning vid ny- och ombyggnation. Det är även en kostnadsfråga då energi för att värma eller kyla byggnader måste betalas för. Ett fönsters värmeisolerande egenskaper beskrivs med dess U-värde. För fönster som tillverkas i fasta mått kan ett U-värde antingen mätas eller beräknas enligt standarder och sedan uppges för beställaren av fönstret. När fönster inte tillverkas i fasta mått blir det en tidskrävande procedur att för varje nytt fönstermått beräkna eller mäta fönstrets U-värde. Syftet med detta arbete var att utifrån U-värdesberäkningar för flera olika måttkonfigurationer av fönstermodellen "A" som tillverkas på måttbeställning av "B" fastställa sambandet mellan dess geometri och dess U-värde. Fönstret är ett renoveringsfönster som monteras i en byggnads befintliga fönsterkarmar. Genom att fastställa sambandet mellan geometri och U-värde fastställs hur fönstrets totala U-värde påverkas av den karm som det monteras i. Tanken var att "B" skulle kunna använda resultaten för att ange fönstermodellens U-värde vid beställning av ett specifikt mått. Resultatet kan också vara intressant för andra fönstertillverkare, köpare av fönster, konsulter, ackrediteringsorgansitationer och fönsterbranschen i stort. Dels eftersom sambandet mellan fönstergeometri och U-värde fastställes, men även då arbetet ger en ingående beskrivning av hur aktuella standarder kan användas. Fönstrets U-värde beräknades enlig SS-EN ISO 10077-1 och karmens U-värde beräknades enligt SS-EN ISO 10077-2. Glaskassettens U-värde var känt sedan tidigare och beräknades inte i detta arbete. Mjukvara användes för att beräkna karmens U-värde.' Resultatet visade att fönstermodellens U-värde minskar då dess area ökar. Det visade också att rektangulära fönster fick ett lägre U-värde ju mer kvadratiska de blev till formen. Detta gällde oavsett om fönsterhöjden var större än fönsterbredden och vice versa. Höga fönster hade ett lägre U-värde än låga fönster på grund av att karmen hos denna fönstermodell hade olika U-värden på sidorna och upptill och nedtill. Diagram har tagits fram på fönstrets U-värde i olika geometrier, storlekar och utföranden. Det visade sig att standarderna som användes är bättre lämpad för att jämföra olika fönstermodellers U-värden snarare än att undersöka hur en enskild fönstermodells U-värde förändras med dess geometri då standarderna i vissa avseenden inte tar hänsyn till fysikaliska lagar. För att noggrannare undersöka hur ett fönsters storlek och geometri påverkar dess U-värde bör framtida studier fokusera på att utföra värmetekniska simuleringar, snarare än att räkna enligt standarderna som använts i detta arbete. / The thermal insulation properties of a window are essential to know for the purchaser since there are energy use regulations concerning construction of new buildings or those undergoing deep renovations. It’s also a matter of cost since energy for heating and cooling a building must be paid for. The thermal insulating properties of a window is described with its U-value. The thermal properties for windows produced in fixed sizes could be measured or calculated according to standards and be presented to the purchaser of the window. When windows are not manufactured in fixed sizes a great deal of work must be done to calculate or measure the U-value for each individual window size. The purpose of this report was to establish the relationship between the geometry and the U-value for the window model "A" which is manufactured in customer requested sizes by "B". The establishment of the relationship between U-value and geometry was accomplished through U-value calculations for different size configurations of the window. The window is a renovation window which is mounted onto a buildings already existing window frames. By establishing the relationship between the geometry and the U-value, it can be known how the U-value of the window is affected by the frame it is mounted on. The idea was that "B" would be able to use the results to be able to specify the U-value when receiving an order of a window of a specific size. The results could potentially be of interest to other window manufacturers, purchaser of windows, consultants, accreditation organizations and the window industry in general. Partly because the relationship between the window geometry and its U-value is established, and partly because the thesis gives an in depth explanation of how relevant standards can be used. The U-value of the window was calculated in accordance with SS-EN ISO 10077-1 and the U-value of the frame in accordance with SS-EN ISO 10077-2. The glazing part of the window was already known and therefore not calculated in this work. Software was used to calculate the U-value of the frame. Results showed that the U-value of the window model declined when its area increased. It also showed that rectangular windows got a lower U-value as it becomes more square shaped. This applied regardless of if the window height was greater than the window width or vice versa. Tall windows had a lower U-value than short windows because the upper, lower, and side members of this window models frame had different U-values. Diagrams have been produced showing the U-value of the window model in different geometries, sizes, and designs. It turned out the standards that was used is better suited to compare different window models U-values rather than to investigate how the U-value of a specific window varies with its geometry because the standards in some regards does not consider physical laws. To more accurately investigate how a windows size and geometry affects its U-value further studies should focus on performing heat transfer simulations, rather than calculate according to the standards that was used in this paper.

In recent years, research has focused more on the importance of language in crisis communication instead of just developing frameworks and strategies. A phenomenon that has recently become a relevant part of this is Framing theory and how this tool can change individual behaviors in situations that require such input. This paper aims to investigate the use of framing within a swedish region’s, Region Västerbotten, crisis communication during covid-19. This in order to underline the importance of language in communication for crises with uncertain time courses. This study examines the region’s press conferences and press releases in order to crystallize important themes related to framing. The method used for this purpose is qualitative content analysis. The results of this study show that the region has used framing to a large extent in terms of measures and facts. This communication has changed over time from being more individual-oriented and rational during the pre-crisis stage, to focus more on measures and used emotional stories during the acute and chronic phases of the crisis. In resolving the crisis, the region has hardly used this type of framing at all. This can be explained by the fact that the communication followed the development of the crisis and used more measures when the individuals in society needed to change their behavior.

It has been shown through several research investigations that users tend to underestimate distances in virtual reality (VR). Virtual objects that appear close to users wearing a Head-mounted display (HMD) might be located at a farther distance in reality. This discrepancy between the actual distance and the distance observed by users in VR was found to hinder users from benefiting from the full in-VR immersive experience, and several efforts have been directed toward finding the causes and developing tools that mitigate this phenomenon. One hypothesis that stands out in the field of spatial perception is the rest frame hypothesis (RFH), which states that visual frames of reference (RFs), defined as fixed reference points of view in a virtual environment (VE), contribute to minimizing sensory mismatch. RFs have been shown to promote better eye-gaze stability and focus, reduce VR sickness, and improve visual search, along with other benefits. However, their effect on distance perception in VEs has not been evaluated. To explore and better understand the potential effects that RFs can have on distance perception in VR, we used a blind walking task to explore the effect of three head-centric RFs (a mesh mask, a nose, and a hat) on egocentric distance estimation. We performed a mixed-design study where we compared the effect of each of our chosen RFs across different environmental conditions and target distances in different 3D environments. We found that at near and mid-field distances, certain RFs can improve the user's distance estimation accuracy and reduce distance underestimation. Additionally, we found that participants judged distance more accurately in cluttered environments compared to uncluttered environments. Our findings show that the characteristics of the 3D environment are important in distance estimation-dependent tasks in VR and that the addition of head-centric RFs, a simple avatar augmentation method, can lead to meaningful improvements in distance judgments, user experience, and task performance in VR.

This study investigates the influence of the gravity load resisting system on the collapse performance of Special Steel Moment Frames (SMFs). The influence was quantified using the FEMA P-695 methodology. The buildings used for this study were a 2-, 4- and 8-story SMFs taken from the ATC76-1 project where their collapse performance was already evaluated without the gravity system. The main work of this dissertation has been divided in two parts. The first part studies the influence of the gravity system when it is incorporated explicitly as part of the lateral resisting system. Aspects of the gravity frame that were investigated include the contribution of stiffness and strength of beam to column connections, and the location of splices in the gravity columns. Moreover, this research investigates the potential for the development of inelastic deformations in the gravity columns, and the effect of such deformations on structural response. The results show that gravity connections and gravity column's continuity profoundly affect the computed response and collapse probability. The inelastic behavior in gravity columns has a less important effect but should be included in the analysis. The second part of the investigation looks more in depth at the role of the gravity columns on the collapse performance of SMFs. Using the 2-, 4- and 8-story SMFs, the gravity columns are incorporated using the approach where all the gravity columns are lumped into one elastic, pinned at the base and continuous element. The approach is first validated by checking different aspects such as: strength of gravity connections to induce yielding into gravity columns, difference between the explicit and lumping column approach, and required gravity column's splices to provide continuity. The stiffness of the element representing the gravity columns was varied in order to find the influence of the gravity columns. At the end of the study it was found that they have a significant influence on the collapse performance of SMFs, especially on taller structures like the 8-story model. Moreover it was concluded that an adequate stiffness of the gravity columns could be found by performing nonlinear static pushover analysis. / Ph. D.

Shear deformations are, generally, not considered in structural analysis of beams and frames. But shear deformations in members with low clear span-to-member depth ratio will be higher than normally expected, thus adversely affecting the stiffness of these members. Inclusion of shear deformation in analysis requires the values of shear modulus (modulus of rigidity, G) and the shear area of the member. The shear area of the member is a cross-sectional property and is defined as the area of the section which is effective in resisting shear deformation. This value is always less than the gross area of the section and is also referred to as the form factor. The form factor is the ratio of the gross area of the section to its shear area. There are a number of expressions available in the literature for the form factors of rectangular and wide flange sections. However, preliminary analysis revealed a high variation in the values given by them. The variation was attributed to the different assumptions made, regarding the stress distribution and section behavior. This necessitated the use of three-dimensional finite element analysis of rectangular and wide flange sections to resolve the issue. The purpose of finite element analysis was to determine which, if any, of the expressions in the literature provided correct answers. A new method of finite element analysis based on the principle of virtual work is used for analyzing rectangular and wide flange sections. The validity of the new method was established by analyzing rectangular sections for which closed form solutions for form factor were available. The form factors of various wide flange sections in the AISC database were calculated from finite element analysis and an empirical relationship was formulated for easy calculation of the form factor. It was also found that an empirical formula provided good results for form factors of wide flange sections. Beam-column joint sub-assemblies were modeled and analyzed to understand the contribution of various components to the total drift. This was not very successful since the values obtained from the finite element analysis did not match the values calculated using virtual work. This discrepancy points to inaccuracies in modeling and, possibly, analysis of beam-column joints. This issue needs to be resolved before proceeding further with the analysis. / Master of Science

Sound localisation is one of the most representative function of the auditory system and, as such, it has been extensively investigated across species. Spatial hearing can be dramatically altered across the life span, yet research in humans have highlighted the remarkable capacity of the brain to adapt to changes of listening conditions, such as temporary ear plugging or long lasting hearing impairments. Although several investigations have examined accommodation to altered auditory cues (Chapter 1), a common theoretical framework seems to lack and a number of questions remain open. This limits the possibility to translate our current knowledge into concrete clinical applications for individuals who experience spatial hearing difficulties after hearing loss. The current dissertation reflects the attempt to answer specific questions regarding the process of sound localisation. The first study (Chapter 2) aimed to investigate the relation between different reference frames in spatial hearing, namely egocentric and allocentric sound representation. We studies this topic in the context of a learning paradigm, assessing to what extent localisation of single sounds in simulated monaural hearing (unilateral ear plugging) can improve following an audio-visual spatial hearing training focused on egocentric sound processing vs allocentric sound processing. An untrained group was also included in the study. We found that localisation performance in the horizontal plane improved specifically in the side ipsilateral to the ear-plug for all groups. Yet, the trained groups showed a qualitatively different change of performance after four days of multisensory ego/allocentric training compared to the untrained group, providing initial evidence of the possible role of allocentric coding in acoustic space re-learning. These results further highlight the importance of including a test-retest group in paradigms of sound localisation training. The second study (Chapter 3) focused on a specific aspect of the phenomenological experience of spatial hearing, namely the subjective confidence about the perceived sound position. We examined the relation between objective localisation accuracy and subjective certainty while participants localised sounds in two different listening conditions – binaural or simulated monaural hearing. Results showed that overall subjective certainty on sound position decreased in the altered listening condition (unilateral ear-plugging). In simulated monaural hearing, localisation accuracy and spatial confidence dissociated. For instance, there were trials in which participants were accurate, but felt uncertain, and trials in which they were less accurate but expressed higher ratings of spatial confidence on sound position. Furthermore, subjective confidence increased as a function of time within the testing block, and it was related to the spatial distribution of the perceived sound-source position. The third study (Chapter 4) exploited magnetoencephalography (MEG) to study the dynamics of the cortical network implied in active sound localisation. We implemented a novel apparatus to study sound localisation in MEG with real sounds in external space, and collected behavioural and subjective responses (i.e., accuracy and confidence, as in Study 2) during this altered listening condition. Results showed that participants were able to perceive the spatial difference between the positions of stimulation, thus proving the reliability of our novel setting for the study of spatial hearing in MEG. MEG data highlight a distributed bilateral cortical network involved in active sound localisation, which emerged shortly after stimulus presentation (100—125 ms). The network comprise the classical dorsal auditory pathway plus other cortical regions usually underestimated in previous literature – most notably, regions in the central sulcus/precentral gyrus possibly involved in head movements. Connectivity analysis revealed different patterns of neural coupling, as a function of frequency band. In particular, coherence in high gamma revealed significant connections involving the parietal cortex and the posterior superior temporal cortex. In the final chapter (Chapter 5), I summarise the main findings of the three studies, discuss their implications and outline potential future directions.

Short open reading frames (sORFs) are codon sequences with a start and stop codon within atmost 100 codons. Cells produce many transcripts from them and some sORFs have been found to have function. sORFs have been associated with embryogenesis, myogenesis, immunity and various diseases including cancers. Cell culture screening is a common method to study function in sORFs. By inserting mutations in known sORF locations one can affect their translation by removing start codons, inserting premature stop codons, or removing native stop codons. A new tool set to do this isCRISPR technology, where single guide RNA (gRNA) can be used to make more precise genome edits. Unfortunately, such design is nontrivial and suggests a lot of variants for testing. It results in a back-and-forth testing process involving different available design tools. In this project, a comprehensive way was developed to see and iterate over the many test combinations. This intends to ease the process and decrease the likelihood for errors. The developed solution is a tool that integrates the currently best design tools. It also introduces a method in the form of a new quality summary score that can evaluate the estimated outcomes of the various designed guide variants. The tool was tested, and it was found that the score simplifies and amplifies the earlier usedscore methods. The pipeline is simple to install and use, integrates the currently most actively developed tools, and an installation is as future proof as can be made in a rapidly evolving field.