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We attempt to build a ladder connecting the heavens of Category Theory to the interests of modal logicians, in particular those concerned with modelling tasks and therefore involved with specific models and languages. Rather than providing a general argument or theory, we set out to collect enoug...
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The topic of this dissertation is the famous principle of compositionality, stating that the meanings of complex expressions are determined by the meanings of their parts and how the parts are put together. The title belies its intent: rather than advancing a central thesis, it instead asks and p...
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Does being in a position to know P require information that rules out every possible way in which P is false? Traditional arguments for skepticism apparently assume a 'yes' answer. A relevant alternatives (RA) theorist answers 'no'. In this dissertation, I bypass prominent objections to relevant ...
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This dissertation studies logics of knowledge, belief and information dynamics using topological spaces as models. It is concerned with the formal representation of evidence and its link to justification, justified belief, knowledge, and evidence-based information dynamics. Topological spaces eme...
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Artificial Language Learning has, over the last 20 years, become a key paradigm to study the nature of learning biases in speech segmentation and rule generalization. In experiments in this paradigm, participants are exposed to a sequence of stimuli that have certain statistical properties, and ...
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In natural language, there is only a limited space for variation in the word order of linguistic productions. From a linguistic perspective, word order is the result of multiple application of syntactic recursive functions. These syntactic operations produce hierarchical syntactic structures, as ...
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Retained or Lost in Transmission?
Analyzing and Predicting Stability in Dutch Folk Songs
Berit Janssen
My dissertation investigates the variation of Dutch folk songs with computational methods, with a special interest in stability, or a melody's resistance to change in transmission. The first ch...
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The World Wide Web, just 25 years after its inception, has become ingrained in nearly every aspect of our daily lives. The traces of our increasingly ‘digital’ lives and society captured in the web are an highly valuable resource for current and future researchers. However, the content on the web...
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The topic of this dissertation is the naturalization of skilled intentionality in terms of the concepts of affordance and anticipation. Skilled intentionality is the kind of intentionality exhibited by skilled agents when acting in everyday situations and is characterized as selective openness to...
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Machine translation systems often incorporate modeling assumptions motivated by properties of the language pairs they initially target. When such systems are applied to language families with considerably different properties, translation quality can deteriorate. Phrase-based machine translation ...