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Abstract Given a sequence of samples from an unknown probability distribution, a statistical estimator aims at providing an approximate guess of the distribution by utilizing statistics from the samples. One desired property of an estimator is that its guess approaches the unknown distribution as...
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Although meaning has been a constant interest in psycholinguistics,
the concepts and methods of formal semantics have been rarely used to
make sense of empirical data. In this thesis we try to fill this gap
presenting the results of two ERP studies on Dutch temporal
semantics. In the first, we in...
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Duality for Distributive Modal Algebras
(with an application on subdirect irreducibility)
Be Birchall
Abstract:
This work is concerned with developing some dualities for distributive
algebras with additional modal operators, and investigating the
conditions on their duals under which the algebra...
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This thesis is concerned with developing the plausibility logic,
incorporating bounded rationality into it. We propose variations for
updating belief plausibility that allow for diversity of agents,
investigate the dramatic difference between agents with `the best
memory' and agents with `the wor...
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The goal of an estimator is to approximate the unknown distribution of
the language from its partial evidence. In this thesis, a rank
consistent estimator is defined as an estimator that preserves the
ranking frequencies of all the full parse trees in the treebank proved
to be rank consistent wit...
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Verbal aspect is, alongside tense, an essential device for representing temporal information in Slavic languages, including Polish. To give a linguistic account of it is difficult because of the complicated verbal morphology. Recently this problem has been addressed by Anna Mlynarczyk's aspectual...
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In this thesis, the author shows how BMS framework models the cases of
message passing. He studies the sufficient and necessary conditions
for two action models to have the same update effects, and proposes a
structural relation between action models, named action emulation, to
capture the same u...
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`binyanim ba'avir'
An investigation of Aspect Semantics in Modern Hebrew
Reut Tsarfaty
Abstract:
This thesis summarizes an attempt to decompose `Hebrew aspect' and
construct aspectual meanings by virtue of the semantic contributions
of morphological templates.
The proposed account is not the on...
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In the past few years unlabeled examples and their potential
advantage have received a lot of attention. In this paper a new
boosting algorithm is presented where unlabeled examples are used to
enforce agreement between several different learning algorithms. Not
only do the learning algorithm...
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Algebraizing Hybrid Logic
Evangelos Tzanis
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Hybrid logic is the result of extending the basic modal language with
a second sort of atomic propositions called nominals, and with
satisfaction operators. Precisely, the nominals (denoted by i, j, ...)
behave similar to ordinary proposition...