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Working the Past

Narrative and Institutional Memory

by Charlotte Linde
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008

Stories told within institutions play a powerful role, helping to define not only the institution itself, but also its individual members. How do institutions use stories? How do those stories both preserve the past and shape the future? To what extent does narrative construct both collective and...
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by Atefeh Farzindar, Diana Inkpen, Graeme Hirst
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017

In recent years, online social networking has revolutionized interpersonal communication. The newer research on language analysis in social media has been increasingly focusing on the latter's impact on our daily lives, both on a personal and a professional level. Natural language processing (NLP)...
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Comprehending and Speaking about Motion in L2 Spanish

A Case of Implicit Learning in Anglophones

by Samuel A. Navarro Ortega
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017

This book presents a novel analysis of the learning of motion event descriptions by Anglophone students of Spanish. The author examines cross-linguistic differences between English and Spanish, focusing on the verbal patterns of motion events, to explore how learners overcome an entrenched first-language...
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Memory and the Computational Brain

Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience

by C. R. Gallistel, Adam Philip King
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011

Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last several decades. A provocative...
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by J. Harrington, S. Cassidy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Techniques in Speech Acoustics provides an introduction to the acoustic analysis and characteristics of speech sounds. The first part of the book covers aspects of the source-filter decomposition of speech, spectrographic analysis, the acoustic theory of speech production and acoustic phonetic cues....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019

"This new Handbook, with contributions from leaders in the field, integrates, within a single volume, an historical perspective, the latest in computational and neural modeling of phonetics, and a breadth of applications, including clinical populations and forensic linguistics.  Issues of current...
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The People’s Web Meets NLP

Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources

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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013

Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources (CCLRs) such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Linked Open Data, and various resources developed using crowdsourcing techniques such as Games with a Purpose and Mechanical Turk have substantially contributed to the research in natural language processing (NLP)....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017

The book presents the issue of impoliteness in media discourse found in television debates, films and computer-mediated communication. The phenomenon is viewed from different theoretical perspectives, namely prosody studies, corpus linguistics, media studies and audiovisual translation, neo-Gricean...
Cover of Corpus Stylistics in Heart of Darkness and its Italian Translations
by Dr Lorenzo Mastropierro
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017

This book explores the interaction between corpus stylistics and translation studies. It shows how corpus methods can be used to compare literary texts to their translations, through the analysis of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and four of its Italian translations. The comparison focuses...
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Naming Game

Models, Simulations and Analysis

by Guanrong Chen, Yang Lou
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018

This book provides a gradual introduction to the naming game, starting from the minimal naming game, where the agents have infinite memories (Chapter 2), before moving on to various new and advanced settings: the naming game with agents possessing finite-sized memories (Chapter 3); the naming game...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity provides an introduction to and survey of a wide range of perspectives on the relationship between language and creativity. Defining this complex and multifaceted field, this book introduces a conceptual framework through which the various definitions...
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by Markus Dickinson, Chris Brew, Detmar Meurers
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012

Language and Computers introduces students to the fundamentals of how computers are used to represent, process, and organize textual and spoken information. Concepts are grounded in real-world examples familiar to students’ experiences of using language and computers in everyday life. A real-world...
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by Ian Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018

This book brings together for the first time a series of previously published papers featuring Ian Roberts’ pioneering work on diachronic and comparative syntax over the last thirty years in one comprehensive volume. Divided into two parts, the volume engages in recent key topics in empirical studies...
Cover of The Economics of the Multilingual Workplace
by François Grin, Claudio Sfreddo, François Vaillancourt
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

This book proposes a path-breaking study of the economics of multilingualism at work, proposing a systematic approach to the identification and measurement of the ways in which language skills and economic performance are related. Using the instruments of economic investigation, but also explicitly...
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