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Weapons of Mass Destruction: Financial Crises from a Philosophical Perspective
(2022-11-09)Financial crises are severely destructive events. The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 sent sovereign states into a spiral of political unrest and caused millions of people to lose their homes, their jobs, their life savings, ... -
Who is laughing now? Laughter-infused dialogue systems
(2022-08-16)This thesis paves the way for including laughter in spoken dialogue systems in a domain-general and linguistically valid way using computational linguistics tools and methods. The thesis is concerned with three main ... -
Why the pond is not outside the frog? Grounding in contextual representations by neural language models
(2020-05-05)In this thesis, to build a multi-modal system for language generation and understanding, we study grounded neural language models. Literature in psychology informs us that spatial cognition involves different aspects of ... -
Word Meaning Negotiation in Online Discussion Forum Communication
(2015-11-18)We all know that lexicons contain definitions of the meanings of words, but when we communicate with other people, these are not the kinds of meaning we use in interaction. In conversation, we coordinate with each other ...