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Resources and Applications for Dialectal Arabic: the Case of Levantine
(2022-05-03)This is a thesis about the computational study of Dialectal Arabic (DA). In particular, the thesis studies DA, with a special emphasis on Levantine Arabic, and develops tools and resources for the computational study of ... -
Responsibility and health: explanation-based perspectives
(2014-01-16)There is a growing trend of holding people responsible for their lifestyle-based diseases. For example, policymakers as well as researchers have argued that medical conditions caused by smoking, overweight, or extreme ... -
Self-similarity in the foundations
(2018-05-24)This thesis concerns embeddings and self-embeddings of foundational structures in both set theory and category theory. The first part of the work on models of set theory consists in establishing a refined version of ... -
Semantic change in interaction: Studies on the dynamics of lexical meaning
(2023-03-28)This compilation thesis investigates how word meanings change. In particular, it's concerned semantic change at the levels of interaction and the speech community. To this end, the compiled studies employ methods from both ... -
Steps Towards Creating Socially Competent Game Characters
(2014-01-31)This thesis investigates and presents approaches towards creating more socially competent NPCs by means of natural language dialogues. The aim is to provide hands-on solutions for game developers who want to offer interactions ... -
Studies in Language Structure using Deep Learning
(2023-08-15)This thesis deals with the discovery, prediction, and utilization of structural patterns in language using deep learning techniques. The thesis is divided into two sections. The first section gives an introduction to the ... -
Swedish management in Singapore: a discourse analysis study
(2009-05-07)The concept of Scandinavian management as a specialized field of interest, began in the early 1980s with a variety of methods, including quantitative questionnaires, surveys, case studies and narratives within the organization. ... -
The Quantification of Society. A Study of a Swedish Research Institute and Survey-Based Social Science
(2012-03-21)This thesis is concerned with the contemporary history of quantitative surveys in Sweden. The core epistemic practice of constructing surveys is examined empirically through a case study of the SOM Institute (Samhälle, ... -
Towards Dialogue Strategies for Cognitive Workload Management
(2015-09-24)Although it has been shown that drivers are less distracted when using speech interfaces compared to traditional interfaces, using voice control instead of manual controls does not completely solve the problem with distracted ... -
Truth and Proof in the Long Run: Essays on Trial and-Error Logics
(2017-03-17)The theme of this book is convergence. For many philosophical representations of the evolution of theories, as well as representations of the meaning of the language used to express these theories, it has been essential ... -
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 ...