Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori by Title
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Enthymemes in Dialogue: A micro-rhetorical approach
(2014-09-03)In dialogue we frequently present arguments which are based on commonly accepted non-logical inferences. In rhetorical theory, this type of argument is called an enthymeme, and a pattern of reasoning that it is based on ... -
Explorations of the Relationship Between the right to Make Decisions and Moral Responsibility in Healthcare
(2020-11-18)People intuitively think that there is a strong connection between having a right to make decisions and to be morally responsible for those decisions. This thesis explores the relationship between these notions in the ... -
Exploring Evidence-Based Practice Through New Forms of Engagement
(2023-12-15)This thesis is concerned with how to connect Science and Technology Studies (STS) with Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) through new forms of engagements. EBP is commonly associated with efforts to improve quality of welfare ... -
Forensic comparison of voices, speech and speakers – Tools and Methods in Forensic Phonetics
(2017-05-16)This thesis has three main objectives. The first objective (A) includes Study I, which investigates the parameter fundamental frequency (F0) and its robustness in different acoustic contexts by using different measures. ... -
Four Questions Concerning Love and Friendship
(2016-10-07)This thesis contributes to the contemporary, analytic philosophical debate about love and friendship. Part of this debate concerns the apparent paradox that, while the fact that a person is your loved one doesn’t make ... -
Från utvald till utbildad – Persona i utredningar om svensk forskarutbildning 1945-2004
(2017-02-28)The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how the doctoral student has been portrayed in official government reports concerning Swedish research training from 1945 to 2004. In this dissertation, the concept of scientific ... -
From sounds to speech and gestures Case studies of linguistic interaction in children with ASC
(2016-02-05)This thesis investigates the interrelationship between segmental phonology, prosody and gesture, as well as important factors for language development in individuals with autism spectrum condition (ASC), i.e. precursors. ... -
Giving Executives Their Due: Just Pay, Desert, and Equality
(2021-11-19)Before, during, and after the global financial crisis of 2008, executive pay practices were widely debated and criticized. Economists, philosophers, as well as the man on the street all seem to have strong feelings towards ... -
The Growth of Phrases. User-centred Design for Activity-based Voice Output Communication Aids
(2010-05-11)An activity-based vocabulary for Voice Output Communication Aids (VOCAs) was designed and evaluated through a user-centred, iterative design process, using expressions from the Gothenburg Spoken Language Corpus as well as ... -
Heuristisk analys med Diderichsens satsschema. Tillämpningar för svensk text
(2010-03-26)A heuristic method for parsing Swedish text, heuristic schema parsing, is described and im-plemented. Focusing on main clause (primary) analysis, a collection of licensing techniques for removing non-primary verb candidates ... -
Information state based speech recognition
(2010-04-28)One of the pitfalls in spoken dialogue systems is the brittleness of automatic speech recognition (ASR). ASR systems often misrecognize user input and they are unreliable when it comes to judging their own performance. ... -
Look on my thesis, ye mighty: gaze interaction and social robotics
(2024-04-02)Gaze, a significant non-verbal social signal, conveys attentional cues and provides insight into others’ intentions and future actions. The thesis examines the intricate aspects of gaze in human-human dyadic interaction, ... -
Mapping vowels: Variation and change in the speech of Gothenburg adolescents
(2018-09-03)Until now, sociolinguistic investigations of Gothenburg have been scarce. This compilation thesis provides some of the first steps in a quantitative investigation of language variation and change in the city. Its results ... -
Metaphor and Indirect Communication in Nietzsche
(2014-02-10)The main focus of this theses is indirect communication in Nietzsche's texts. Some concrete examples of how Nietzsche's texts can be read are given. -
Minds, Brains and Desert: On the relevance of neuroscience for retributive punishment
(2019-08-30)It is a common idea, and an element in many legal systems, that people can deserve punishment when they commit criminal (or immoral) actions. A standard philosophical objection to this retributivist idea about punishment ... -
Modal Empiricism Made Difficult: An Essay in the Meta-Epistemology of Modality
(2019-01-18)Philosophers have always taken an interest not only in what is actually the case, but in what is necessarily the case and what could possibly be the case. These are questions of modality. Epistemologists of modality enquire ... -
Moral Disagreement and the Significance of Higher-Order Evidence
(2018-12-07)Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the philosophy of disagreement, especially in epistemology where there is an intense debate over the epistemic significance of disagreement and higher-order evidence more ... -
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Natural Language Processing for Low-resourced Code-switched Colloquial Languages – The Case of Algerian Language
(2020-06-09)In this thesis we explore to what extent deep neural networks (DNNs), trained end-to-end, can be used to perform natural language processing tasks for code-switched colloquial languages lacking both large automated data ... -
Nonhuman Moral Agency: A Practice-Focused Exploration of Moral Agency in Nonhuman Animals and Artificial Intelligence
(2023-12-05)Can nonhuman animals and artificial intelligence (AI) entities be attributed moral agency? The general assumption in the philosophical literature is that moral agency applies exclusively to humans since they alone possess ...