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All over the world, people make music together. The process that allows us to synchronize to music is beat perception. In this dissertation, I explore the ingredients that are necessary for us to perceive a beat in musical rhythm. I examine how beat perception is affected by attention, musical ab...
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Interpreting Linguistic Behavior with Possible World Models
Johannes Marti
In this thesis I develop an account of radical interpretation using the possible world framework to model beliefs and meanings. I prove representation results which show that if the linguistic behavior of some subject sat...
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Natural language processing (NLP) systems, until recently, relied heavily on sophisticated representations and carefully designed feature sets. Now with the rise of deep learning, for the first time in the history of NLP, the importance of such manual feature engineering has started to be challen...
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Globalization is one of the characteristics of our time. Documents and written texts are available from all over the world but they are not always accessible because of language barriers. The work of human translators is time consuming and costly. The introduction of machine translation has given...
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This thesis applies the Data-Oriented Parsing framework in two areas: parsing & literature. The data-oriented approach rests on the assumption that re-use of chunks of training data can be detected and exploited at test time. Syntactic tree fragments form the common thread in the thesis.
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In this thesis, we present several results along two different lines of research. The first part concerns the study of position-based quantum cryptography, a topic in quantum cryptography. In the second part we introduce a new notion of computation, catalytic computation, and study this new model...
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In this PhD thesis we study the effects of quantum entanglement, one of quantum mechanics most peculiar features, in nonlocal games and communication problems in zero-error information theory. A nonlocal game is a thought experiment in which two cooperating players, who are forbidden to communica...
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This thesis is a study of nonstandard provability predicates for Peano Arithmetic (PA). By a nonstandard provability predicate, we mean the provability predicate of a theory that coincides with PA from the external point of view, however not verifiably in PA. Our perspective is shaped by modal lo...
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This thesis is centered on the issue of rational choice. Traditional decision-theoretic arguments aim at providing axiomatizations of different norms for decision making, and evaluate their rationality on the basis of the normative strength of their axiom systems.
The approach taken in this disse...
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In this thesis I provide an account of the philosophical foundations and mathematical structure of Kant's temporal continuum. I mainly focus on the development of a formalization of Kant's temporal continuum as it appears in the Critique of Pure Reason and in other works of Kant's critical period...
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This dissertation presents a precise, unified and explanatory theory of human conversation, centered on two broad phenomena: exhaustivity implications and intonational meaning. In a nutshell: (i) speakers have two types of communicative intentions, namely information sharing and attention sharing...