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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Five English Verbs : A Comparison between Dictionary meanings and Meanings in Corpus collocations

Sörensen, Susanne January 2006 (has links)
In Norstedts Comprehensive English-Swedish Dictionary (2000) it is said that the numbered list of senses under each headword is frequency ordered. Thus, the aim of this study is to see whether this frequency order of senses agrees with the frequencies appearing in the British National Corpus (BNC). Five English, polysemous verbs were studied. For each verb, a simple search in the corpus was carried out, displaying 50 random occurrences. Each collocate was encoded with the most compatible sense from the numbered list of senses in the dictionary. The encoded tokens were compiled and listed in frequency order. This list was compared to the dictionary's list of senses. Only two of the verbs reached agreement between the highest ranked dictionary sense and the most frequent sense in the BNC simple search. None of the verbs' dictionary orders agreed completely with the emerged frequency order of the corpus occurrences, why complementary collocational learning is advocated.
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Contribution à la modélisation d'une conscience culturelle artificielle émique par les ontologies. / Contribution to the modeling of emic artificial cultural awareness through ontologies.

Petit, Jean 27 June 2017 (has links)
Depuis l'expansion du web, de nombreuses applications cherchent à répondre aux besoins d'utilisateurs ou de machines aux origines culturelles variées. De ce contexte de diversité culturelle émerge de nombreux conflits liés à des conceptions du monde différentes. Proposer des services adaptés requiert l'intégration au sein du système d'une forme de conscience culturelle. Une conscience culturelle artificielle est composée de représentations et de médiations culturelles formelles offrant au système les moyens pour interpréter les cultures représentées et déterminer leurs différences. Jusqu'à présent les représentations utilisées dans le développement des systèmes culturellement conscients sont issues de modèles universels ou ``étiques''. Ces modèles grossiers, bien qu'ils soient adaptés, limitent la compréhension possible des cultures représentées. Par conséquent ils constituent un goulot d'étranglement dans le développement des systèmes culturellement conscients.Cette thèse explore le développement d'une conscience culturelle artificielle plus fine sur la base de modèles culturels spécifiques à chaque culture dits ``émiques''. J'étudie la construction, la formalisation et la médiation des représentations culturelles émiques. Mes contributions principales sont la conception et la validation, d'une part, d'un nouveau processus ethnographique semi-automatique de construction de modèles émiques via la fouille de textes et, d'autre part, d'une conscience culturelle artificielle émique fondée sur l'alignement d'ontologies culturelles issues de ces modèles. / With the growing web, a number of applications seek to meet the needs of users or machines having diverse cultural backgrounds. From this context of cultural diversity arises conflicts linked to different world conceptions. Offering adaptated services requires the integration of a form of cultural awareness in the system. An artificial cultural awareness is composed of formal cultural representations and mediations providing the system with the means to interpret the represented cultures and to determine their differences. So far the representations used for the development of culturally-aware systems come from universal or ``etic'' models. Those coarse-grained models, even though they are adapted, limit the possible understanding of the represented cultures. As a consequence they constitute a bottleneck for the development of culturally-aware systems.This thesis investigates the development of a finer-grained artificial cultural awareness based on cultural models specific to each culture called ``emic''. I study the construction, the formalisation and the mediation of these emic cultural representations. My main contributions are the design and validation of, in one hand, a new semi-automatic ethnographic process for building emic models through text-mining, in another hand, an emic artificial cultural awareness based on the mapping of cultural ontologies coming from those models.
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Kognisiewerkwoorde in Afrikaans / Cognition verbs in Afrikaans

Roux, Adriaan Johannes Gerhardus 03 1900 (has links)
Text in Afrikaans, abstracts in Afrikaans and English / This is a study of the broad scope of cognition verbs in Afrikaans. Firstly, the nonmetaphorical cognition verbs [e.g. ken (= know), weet (= know), dink (= think), verstaan (= understand)] are discussed and then the metaphorical cognition verbs which are subcategorized in metaphorical verbs of vision [kyk (= look), sien (= see)] and metaphorical manipulation verbs [vorm (= form), gryp (= grab), voel (= feel), vat (= take) etc.]. The study is embedded in the cognitive linguistic stance of embodiment which inter alia implies that our neurological functioning is based on feeling (which includes our sense of touch), and that the way our bodies are structured also determines the way we express our thoughts. This extensive descriptive study of Afrikaans cognition verbs, metaphorical and nonmetaphorical, indicates that visual lexemes in Afrikaans express subtle abstract thought, while manipulation lexemes express less subtle, yet still abstract result-driven thought. Synthesis is an important factor in this study because the non-metaphorical cognition verbs as well as the metaphorical cognition verbs are linked to the basic cognitive principle of embodiment. Also, the two metaphorical verb types can by seen in synthesis when the stage frame ( = vision) and the workshop frame ( = manipulation) are merged. The synthesis of the stage frame and the workshop frame eventually provides us with another perspective, namely that vision and manipulation (which includes touch and feeling) are in a state of interacting nurturing symbiosis. / In hierdie studie word die breë kader van Afrikaanse kognisiewerkwoorde ondersoek. Eers kom die nie-metaforiese kognisiewerkwoorde (ken, weet, dink, verstaan) onder die vergrootglas, en daarna die metaforiese kognisiewerkwoorde wat gesubkategoriseer word in visueel-metaforiese werkwoorde (kyk, sien ens.) en manipulatief-metaforiese werkwoorde (vorm, gryp, voel, vat ens.). Hierdie studie is ingebed binne die kognitieflinguistiese uitgangspunt van beliggaamdheid wat onder andere behels dat ons neurologiese funksionering sterk gevoelsgefundeerd (o.m. op tassintuiglike vlak) is, maar ook dat ons liggaamlike gestruktureerdheid 'n rol speel by die uitdrukking van denke. Die uitvoerige deskriptiewe studie van Afrikaanse kognisiewerkwoorde, metafories en nie-metafories, dui aan dat visuele lekseme in Afrikaans vir fyn abstrakte denke gebruik word, terwyl manipulasielekseme vir minder fyn, maar steeds abstrakte resultaatgedrewe denke gebruik word. Sintesevorming speel 'n belangrike rol in hierdie studie in dié sin dat die nie-metaforiese kognisiewerkwoorde sowel as die metaforiese kognisiewerkwoorde tot die basiese kognitiewe uitgangspunt van beliggaamdheid teruggevoer kan word. Ook wat die twee metaforiese werkwoordtipes betref, kan daar 'n sintese gevorm word indien die verhoograam (= visie) sáám met die werkswinkelraam (= manipulasie) beskou word. Die samevoeging van die verhoograam met die werkswinkelraam bied uiteindelik nog 'n perspektief, naamlik dat visie en manipulasie (waarby tassintuiglike gevoel ingesluit is) simbioties en voedend op mekaar inwerk. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / D. Litt. et Phil (Linguistics)

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