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Kirkham, Georgina Katharine. "Creating art or vexing nature? : ethics and the manipulation of nature, a critical study of arguments from Nature." University of Western Australia. Philosophy Discipline Group, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0163.
Full textParker, Michael L. "Sex and the Soul: Plato’s Equality Argument in the Republic." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147887701.
Full textDowning, Brigid. "Developing the nature and the role of quality argument in primary science lessons through the use of concept cartoons." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413122.
Full textChu, Shiao Ying Sharon. "When poetry argues : on the translation of argument in classical Chinese poems and revisiting the nature of poetry translation." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10056221/.
Full textRaymond, Richard. "La nature à la campagne : identification sociale et argument pour la gestion d'un territoire rural partagé : l'exemple du Vexin français." Paris 1, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA010513.
Full textAbong'o, Christine. "Etude pragmatique des connecteurs argumentatifs luos et français : nature, distribution et effet de sens." Thesis, Pau, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PAUU1009/document.
Full textThis is an analysis of French and Luo sentence connectors. Comparative studies are commonly found between one European language and another. Research carried out on connectors of European and Bantu, Nilotic or Cushitic languages are rare. This thesis thus seeks to fill this knowledge gap. As revealed by literature review, European languages have a wide array of connecters that express different semantic values. If identifying and pegging particular semantic values to connectors of European language poses a challenge, it could be asserted that identifying those of African languages is even a more difficult task since African languages have a smaller number of connectors which could convey a bigger array of semantic value. The objectives of the study are: to determine the possible origin of Luo connectors and to analyze the similarities and differences of Luo and French connectors in terms of nature, distribution and semantic value of the connectors. The study is guided by the argumentative theory of Anscombre and Ducrot (1987). According to the theory, in a situation of argument, the locutor presents E1 in order to orient his interlocutor towards E2. The data collection techniques are grounded on library research as well as reading and analyzing of selected literary texts, a short play, political discourse and argumentative texts written by students from Maseno and Moi Universities. The research is limited to connectors of addition, opposition, concession, cause, consequence and of time, Data is analyzed qualitatively since qualitative analysis lays greater emphasis on holistic description of data. The research adopts a descriptive analysis design because it entails analyzing existing data sets. It is hoped that the results of this study will be vital to teachers of language, teachers of translation, students and to researchers who take interest in the Africans languages
Lai, Mei-Chun. "Nature of Science Knowledge and Scientific Argumentation Skills in Taiwanese College Biology Students." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337969498.
Full textArchibald, Joanna. "Museums and music : an argument in favour of a broader evaluation of the object-based nature of music collections in the United Kingdom." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15131.
Full textKilian, Daniel. "Drömmen om livet nära Bullerbyn : Hur används argument för att övertyga nya inflyttare till Högsby kommun och relatera de till utländska fritidshusköpares motiv?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-51652.
Full textForan, Jeffrey (Jeffrey Matthew) 1977. "Missing argument referent identification in natural language." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80532.
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by Jeffrey Foran.
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Lin, Chi-San Althon. "Syntax-driven argument identification and multi-argument classification for semantic role labeling." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2602.
Full textMejia-Hudson, Yesenia Isela. "An argument for reparations for Native Americans and Black Americans." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3072.
Full textSchäfer, Florian Mathis. "On the nature of anticausative morphology external arguments in change-of-state contexts /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2007. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:93-opus-33071.
Full textEL-NABIH, HASSAN AHMED. "The Acquisition of the English Causative-Inchoative Alternation by Arabic Native Speakers." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:101759.
Full textThis study is an investigation of Arabic native speakers' (ANSs) acquisition of the English causative-inchoative alternation (e.g. Tom broke the vase vs. The vase broke). Emphasis is placed on the relationship between English proficiency, language transfer, and Universal Grammar mechanisms in ANSs' interlanguage representations. Four central research questions guide the study: (1) Does the English causative-inchoative alternation pose a learnability problem for ANSs? (2) Do ANSs distinguish between unaccusative and unergative verbs in English? (3) Are there L1 transfer effects on ANSs' acquisition of the English causative-inchoative alternation? (4) Are there differences across English proficiency levels with respect to the answers to questions 1-3? To address these questions, an acceptability judgment and correction task was administered to a total of 119 ANSs (from the Gaza Strip, Palestine) of different English proficiency levels. Additionally, 23 American native speakers of English served as controls. The results obtained from data analyses indicated that the English causative-inchoative alternation posed a learnability problem for the Arab participants. They exhibited four major non-target behaviors: overpassivization (both ungrammatical and unnatural), overcausativization, underpassivization, and undercausativization. It is argued that these errors can largely be attributed to L1 transfer, since Arabic is significantly different from English in terms of how to encode the causative-inchoative alternation. The results also revealed sensitivity to the unaccusative-unergative distinction in English, which supports the hypothesis that ANSs have access to the innate mechanisms of Universal Grammar. Moreover, while interlanguage development towards target-like behavior was observed across proficiency groups, certain test conditions revealed a strong influence of L1 transfer on even the high proficiency participants. The findings from the study are inconsistent with the modular view of L1 transfer (Montrul, 2000), but they lend support to the hypothesis that L1 transfer operates not only on morphology, but on lexical argument structure as well (Whong-Barr, 2005). The study is an attempt to fill a gap in the literature, since no research has specifically investigated the acquisition of the English causative-inchoative alternation by ANSs
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Curriculum and Instruction
Estrada, Fernandez Zarina. "Arguments and clausal relations in Pima Bajo." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185467.
Full textBicalho, Vanessa Brun. "O Faktum da razão como argumento crítico na teoria moral de Kant." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Parana, 2013. http://tede.unioeste.br:8080/tede/handle/tede/2049.
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This research has as main purpose to analyze the validity from argument from Faktum of reason how possible founder of the moral law and freedom in Kant's practical philosophy. In order to explain the moral-practical domain in which conceptualized the argument from Faktum of reason, our text will demonstrate initially from the reading of the Critique of Pure Reason, the limits of theoretical reason by which, by the distinction of objects in general phenomenon and noumena, Kant founds both the speculative domain of reason as well, then the practical reason. The determination of the limits from the understanding´s faculty is crucial to establish the thematization of the freedom´s concept as a concept not only speculative (transcendental freedom), but also practical reason (practical freedom). Only so are presented the conditions to be thought of as not contradictory Nature and Freedom. Through the understanding of how theoretical reason (Verstand) knows, and the proper way to understand what pure reason (Vernunft) admits in favor from thinking of ideas that relate to the knowledge (ex., soul, God, and freedom), Kant developed the project of transcendental reason, the systematic point of view. The presence from the argument from Faktum of reason, a single fact admitted this as the reason (Vernunft) contrasted with the Kantian moral theory, developed and explained to the Groundwork from the Metaphysics of Morals. The argument of a Faktum at this reason, brought by the Critique of Practical Reason, caused a disturbance in the reception of Kant´s moral theory, giving breath to a debate on the possession, by reason, of the freedom´s concept. This new foundation argument was explained by Kant as an consciousness of immediately practical, awareness by itself and in itself guarantees the cogency of justification of possession from freedom, in our view, as the only critical argument can be provided by the faculty of pure practical reason. Unfavorable interpretations and receptions from Kant´s strategy of reasoning from freedom in Faktum of reason are discussed in this dissertation. Many current proposals to counteract the appearance of coherent Kant´s strategy brought by Critique of Practical Reason is shown attached to the previous movements of proof to demonstrate the freedom´s concept. In opposition to these proposals, which are a deconstruct component in the Kant´s argument of the perspective from critical-transcendental reason or systematic conformation, our text establishes a dialogue to elucidate the possible incongruities argumentative these interpretations, the themes of freedom (transcendental) and defense of Faktum as compatible arguments with the main transcendental perspective of reason, so kept in accordance with the project of reason from founding a Metaphysics of Morals.
Esta pesquisa tem como proposta principal analisar a validade do argumento do Faktum da razão como possível fundador da lei moral e da liberdade na filosofia prática kantiana. A fim de explicitar o domínio prático-moral no qual tematizamos o argumento do Faktum da razão, nosso texto demonstrará inicialmente a partir da leitura da Crítica da Razão Pura, os limites da razão teórica mediante os quais, pela distinção dos objetos em geral em fenômeno e númeno, Kant funda tanto o domínio especulativo da razão como também, em seguida, o da razão prática. A determinação dos limites da faculdade do entendimento é decisiva para instituir a tematização do conceito de liberdade como conceito não apenas especulativo (liberdade transcendental), mas também prático da razão (liberdade prática). Unicamente por isso são apresentadas as condições para serem pensados como não contraditórios Natureza e Liberdade. Por meio da compreensão do modo como a razão teórica (Verstand) conhece, e do modo adequado de compreender aquilo que a razão pura (Vernunft) admite em favor do pensamento de ideias que têm relação com o conhecimento (p.e., alma, Deus e liberdade), Kant desenvolveu o projeto da razão transcendental, do ponto de vista sistemático. A presença do argumento do Faktum da razão, de um único fato admitido como presente à razão (Vernunft), contrastou com a teoria moral kantiana, desenvolvida e explicitada até a Fundamentação da Metafísica dos Costumes. O argumento de um Faktum presente à razão, trazido pela Crítica da Razão Prática, provocou uma inquietação na recepção da teoria moral kantiana, dando fôlego a um debate em torno da posse, pela razão, do conceito de liberdade. Esse novo argumento fundamentador foi explicitado por Kant como uma consciência do imediatamente prático, consciência que por si mesma e em si mesma garante a irrefutabilidade da justificação da posse da liberdade, a nosso ver, como o único argumento crítico possível de ser fornecido pela faculdade da razão pura prática. Interpretações e recepções desfavoráveis à estratégia kantiana de fundamentação da liberdade no Faktum da razão são debatidas na presente dissertação. Muitas propostas atuais de neutralizar o aspecto coerente da estratégia kantiana trazida pela Crítica da Razão Prática se mostram apegadas aos movimentos anteriores de prova para demonstrar o conceito de liberdade. Em oposição a essas propostas, que encontram na argumentação kantiana um componente descontrutivo da perspectiva da razão crítico-transcendental ou da sua conformação sistemática, nosso texto estabelece um diálogo visando elucidar as possíveis incongruências argumentativas dessas interpretações, pela tematização da liberdade (transcendental) e da defesa do Faktum, como argumentos compatíveis com a própria perspectiva transcendental da razão, mantidos por isso em conformidade com o projeto da razão de fundar uma Metafísica dos Costumes.
Marshall, James William. "Chemical arguments shedding light on the biosynthesis of curious natural products." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550318.
Full textMarten, Lutz. "Syntactic and semantic underspecification in the verb phrase." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313787.
Full textGábor, Kata. "Computational syntax of Hungarian : from phrase chunking to verb subcategorization." Thesis, Besançon, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012BESA1020/document.
Full textWe present the creation of two resources for Hungarian NLP applications: a rule-based shallow parser and a database of verbal subcategorization frames. Hungarian, as a non-configurational language with a rich morphology, presents specific challenges for NLP at the level of morphological and syntactic processing. While efficient and precise morphological analyzers are already available, Hungarian is under-resourced with respect to syntactic analysis. Our work aimed at overcoming this problem by providing resources for syntactic processing. Hungarian language is characterized by a rich morphology and a non-configurational encoding of grammatical functions. These features imply that the syntactic processing of Hungarian has to rely on morphological features rather than on constituent order. The broader interest of our undertaking is to propose representations and methods that are adapted to these specific characteristics, and at the same time are in line with state of the art research methodologies. More concretely, we attempt to adapt current results in argument realization and lexical semantics to the task of labeling sentence constituents according to their syntactic function and semantic role in Hungarian. Syntax and semantics are not completely independent modules in linguistic analysis and language processing: it has been known for decades that semantic properties of words affect their syntactic distribution. Within the syntax-semantics interface, the field of argument realization deals with the (partial or complete) prediction of verbal subcategorization from semantic properties. Research on verbal lexical semantics and semantically motivated mapping has been concentrating on predicting the syntactic realization of arguments, taking for granted (either explicitly or implicitly) that the distinction between arguments and adjuncts is known, and that adjuncts' syntactic realization is governed by productive syntactic rules, not lexical properties. However, besides the correlation between verbal aspect or actionsart and time adverbs (e.g. Vendler, 1967 or Kiefer, 1992 for Hungarian), the distribution of adjuncts among verbs or verb classes did not receive significant attention, especially within the lexical semantics framework. We claim that contrary to the widely shared presumption, adjuncts are often not fully productive. We therefore propose a gradual notion of productivity, defined in relation to Levin-type lexical semantic verb classes (Levin, 1993; Levin and Rappaport-Hovav, 2005). The definition we propose for the argument-adjunct dichotomy is based on evidence from Hungarian and exploits the idea that lexical semantics not only influences complement structure but is the key to the argument-adjunct distinction and the realization of adjuncts
Jin, Gongye. "High-quality Knowledge Acquisition of Predicate-argument Structures for Syntactic and Semantic Analysis." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/215677.
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博士(情報学)
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京都大学大学院情報学研究科知能情報学専攻
(主査)准教授 河原 大輔, 教授 黒橋 禎夫, 教授 河原 達也
学位規則第4条第1項該当
Roberts, Gabriel C. B. "Historical argument in the writings of the English deists." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f4f32628-8e30-49b4-b2ab-449dc0b94b64.
Full textDyson, Charles Wesley. "Native Sovereignty, Narrative Argument, and an International Shift: The 1974 Rhetoric of George Manuel and Vine Deloria, Jr." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/10042.
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Topham, Jonathan Richard. "'An infinite variety of arguments' : the Bridgewater Treatises and British natural theology in the 1830s." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387164.
Full textChebouti, Karim. "Le vocabulaire médical du point de vue des trois fonctions primaires." Thesis, Paris 13, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA131006/document.
Full textThis thesis falls within the framework of the Three Primary Functions theory based on Z. Harris’s distributionalist theory (predicative function, argumental function and actualizing function), as well as in the line of work that does not distinguish between general and specialized languages considering their syntactic and semantic functioning. The medical terminology is described here in the context of the sentence. We analyzed the medical terms according to their argumental or predicative employment. This analysis led to the development of databases. A query interface has been developed subsequently, to allow potential users to conduct targeted research
Giolo, Alessandra. "Governing the Commons with Aboriginal Principles : Indigenous Knowledge in Fire Management Practices Arguments for Implementation." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-41544.
Full textSolbrig, Franziska [Verfasser]. "Potentiale ästhetischer und emotionaler Argumente für den Erhalt von Natur und Landschaft - Empirische Befunde aus vier deutschen UNESCO-Biosphärenreservaten / Franziska Solbrig." Greifswald : Universitätsbibliothek Greifswald, 2015. http://d-nb.info/108039110X/34.
Full textMoreira, André Batista Noronha. "DOIS ARGUMENTOS PELO CONHECIMENTO SOBRE A CIÊNCIA NO ENSINO DE CIÊNCIAS: POR UMA CONTRAIDEOLOGIA DO CONFLITO E UM METACONHECIMENTO PODEROSO." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/81/81131/tde-23112018-140829/.
Full textWe present and discuss in this thesis two arguments, based in the works of two leading curriculum theorists, Michael Apple and Michael Young, in defense of knowledge about science in science teaching. After a historical rescue on the recognition of the importance of the history and philosophy of science in science education, we discuss briefly the philosophical criticism over the so-called consensus view of nature of science. We argue that the distance between the debate on the nature of science in science teaching and its mains critics remains far from arguments of social, political and curricular nature, then we stress the need for a explicit political role for the history and philosophy of science in science education. This means take into account broader processes in education, such as the process of commodification of education and science and the waves of ideological valuation and devaluation of science. First, based on critical curriculum theory and in Apple\'s seminal works and his concept of conflict, we advocate that the tenets-type approach present in the consensus view, by its form, tends to be inviting to standard tests, high-stakes testing, as well to the neoliberal and scientistic-positivist ideologies, inherent in commodification policies. We argue, therefore, that the history of science and the concept of conflict must be understood as a counter-ideology of conflict against neoliberal and scientistic-positivist ideologies, and their political roles emerge as a resistance to the commodification processes of education. Second, based on Young\'s recent works and his concept of powerful knowledge, we argue that the content of the consensus view of nature of science is sympathetic to subjectivist visions, resonating with the postmodern epistemic relativism. Thus, our argument is that philosophy of science, guided by a realistic structural social view, should be understood as a powerful metaknowledge, a conceptual proposition based on Young\'s, against epistemic relativism and localist curricular policies that exclude science. The political nature of our argument is evidenced by the fact that such exclusion violates principles of equity and social justice, translated into the call for minimum guarantee of unrestricted, broad and effective educational access to powerful knowledges. Finally, we discuss tensions between the proposed arguments, as well limitations in our approaches, and point to future developments.
Sarantis, Konstantinos. "The acquisition of argument structure alternations in English by native speakers of Greek and German : the case of the dative and locative alternations." Thesis, University of Essex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.446555.
Full textÁlvarez, León Iván. "Concurso Internacional de Ideas Maspalomas i Costa Canaria. El paisaje como argumento, lo natural como base. Paisajes, ENSBA, ATEA+SETAP, Concurso." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/125650.
Full textLa tesis doctoral analiza un caso de estudio (aún sin investigar), que pertenece al reducido grupo de grandes operaciones turísticas proyectadas durante los años 60 en el arco mediterráneo español. El investigador estudia el primer plan de ordenación de la ciudad de Maspalomas Costa Canaria (Gran Canaria) con el fin de contribuir y protagonizar algunas de las reflexiones que surgen del debate urbano y costero actual. El caso de estudio de Maspalomas forma parte, junto con el plan turístico del Mar Menor (1961-1967) y el proyecto del concurso internacional Elviria (1961), de las primeras experiencias "cultas" en la planificación turística del litoral español. La tesis tiene como hipótesis de partida el carácter SINGULAR y AVANZADO del plan de Maspalomas. El proyecto diseñado por el atelier francés AS ATEA+SETAP, objeto de la celebración de un concurso internacional, presentó cualidades y características prodigiosas para su época. Hoy, 50 años después se convierte en uno de los planes destacados del resto de las intervenciones turísticas proyectadas durante los años 60 del litoral español y francés. La metodología empleada avala de manera coherente la hipótesis planteada, recurriendo a las fuentes más directas que lo confirman. Para ello, fue necesario indagar en: 1. El paisaje y su representación avanzada en el plano (orgánico y dinámico), consultando en las revistas L'architecture d'aujourd'hui, Urbanisme y Techniques & Architecture entre la década de los 50 y 60. Análisis morfológico del paisaje de Maspalomas, a través de la ortofoto de 1961 perteneciente a la zona de estudio. 2. Estudio de la reforma universitaria en Francia mediante la visita al centro de documentación "Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine" (París) y la biblioteca de l'École Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts ENSBA (París). 3. Estudio con detalle del funcionamiento y estructura del atelier AS, por medio de la búsqueda los archivos del "Centre de documentation de l'urbanime", la "Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine" y vaciado de revistas mencionadas en el punto 1. 4. Análisis histórico del concurso y la relación con la Unión Internacional de Arquitectos a través de la consulta del periódico la Falange y Diario de Las Palmas, revista de U.I,A, entrevistas a los arquitectos en vida de AS (Jean Dimitrijevic y Alain Nama), estudio Cano Lasso (Madrid), Julio LaFuente (Roma) y Alejandro del Castillo (hijo del promotor). La tesis doctoral siguiendo la metodología descrita fue capaz de dar forma y contenido a cada una de las cuatro partes que da forma a la investigación: paisaje; enseñanza y formación; la obra de AS ATEA+SETA; y el concurso. El paisaje se estudió según el contexto cultural francés y un análisis morfológico de los elementos que construyeron el paisaje de Maspalomas. La enseñanza de los miembros de AS y los métodos empleados en la ENSBA sirvieron como base para trabajar con lo natural y el territorio. La obra de AS y una revisión de los planes proyectados con mayor relieve, sitúan al plan de Maspalomas como un claro ejemplo que expone el valor de la multidisciplinariedad como método para alcanzar el carácter avanzado del plan de Maspalomas. Y el estudio del concurso, como evento extraordinario dentro de los concursos internacionales auspiciado por la UIA, por medio de la redacción de sus bases, el tribunal calificador, actas, participantes y proyectos. La conclusión de la tesis pone de relieve el paisaje (activador, dinámico y saltos de escala) como argumento principal en la planificación costera de los 60', haciendo de lo natural y de los elementos más físicos del territorio la base del proyecto urbano y turístico. Un cambio en la concepción del paisaje y del sistema de enseñanza francesa a finales de los 50', el estudio de la obra de AS ATEA+SETAP y de la celebración del concurso internacional Maspalomas Costa Canaria sirvieron como desarrollo para destacar el valor del paisaje en la planificación, y así, seguir aprendiendo de ello.
Mayer, Tobias. "Fouille d’arguments à partir des essais cliniques." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020COAZ4092.
Full textIn the latest years, the healthcare domain has seen an increasing interest in the definition of intelligent systems to support clinicians in their everyday tasks and activities. Among others, this includes novel systems for the field of Evidence-based Medicine. The latter relies on the principle of critically appraising medical evidence and combining high quality evidence with the individual clinical experience of the practitioner with respect to the circumstances of a patient to achieve the best possible outcome. Hence, most of the proposed intelligent systems aim either at extracting information concerning the quality of evidence from clinical trials, clinical guidelines, or electronic health records, or assist in the decision making processes, based on reasoning frameworks. The work in this thesis goes beyond the state-of-the-art of currently proposed information extraction systems. It employs Argument Mining methods to extract and classify argumentative components (i.e., evidence and claims of a clinical trial) and their relations (i.e., support, attack). An Argument Mining pipeline is proposed and further enhanced to integrate additional information inspired by prevalent biomedical frameworks for the analysis of clinical trials. These extensions comprise the detection of PICO elements and an outcome analysis module to identify and classify the effects (i.e., improved, increased, decreased, no difference, no occurrence) of an intervention on the outcome of the trial. In this context, a dataset, composed of 660 Randomized Controlled Trial abstracts from the MEDLINE database, was annotated, leading to a labeled dataset with 4198 argument components, 2601 argument relations, and 3351 outcomes on five different diseases (i.e., neoplasm, glaucoma, hepatitis, diabetes, hypertension). Various Machine Learning approaches ranging from feature-based SVMs to recent neural architectures have been experimented with, where deep bidirectional transformers obtain a macro F1-score of .87 for argument component detection and .68 for argument relation prediction, outperforming current state-of-the-art Argument Mining systems. Additionally, a Proof-of-Concept system, called ACTA, was developed to demonstrate the practical use of the developed argument-based approach to analyse clinical trials. This demo system was further integrated in the context of the Covid-on-the-Web project to create rich and actionable Linked Data about the Covid-19
Ku, Wei. "Acquisition of the syntax and interpretation of Chinese null arguments : an investigation of child and adult second language and native language development." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5216/.
Full textFredriksson, Karin. "Måste vi ha NO? : Elevers uppfattning om sin NO-undervisning i skolan." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Technology and Science, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-2264.
Full textDuring my education I have frequently noticed that pupils do not like science or find it hard and dull. The purpose with this investigation is to find out how pupils experience their science education and if they can understand the arguments for studying the subject at school.
I have made a questionnaire study among pupils in grade 8 and 9. After analyzing their answers I have interviewed some of the pupils to get answers on further questions.
The investigation resulted in conclusion that pupils have hard to connect their science-education to their everyday lives. The most important element in forming the pupil’s opinions about science is their relation to the teacher and how the lessons are set-up.
The following questions will be answered in this paper:
Do pupils understand why they have science at school?
Can the pupils see the use of scientific knowledge in their everyday life?
How do pupils look upon their science education?
Jag har flera gånger under min utbildning fått uppfattningen att eleverna tycker att NO är svårt och tråkigt. Syftet med min undersökning är att ta reda på hur eleverna egentligen upplever sin NO-undervisning och om de kan förstå argumenten för att det finns som ämne i skolan.
Jag har gjort en enkätundersökning bland elever i år 8 och 9. Efter att ha analyserat svaren från enkäterna har jag intervjuat ett urval av dessa elever för att få svar på ytterligare frågor.
De resultat som framkom är att eleverna har svårt att koppla sin NO-undervisning till sina vardagsföreställningar. Den faktor som är mest betydelsefull när det gäller elevernas inställning till NO är deras relation till pedagogen och hur denne lägger upp sin undervisning.
De frågeställningar som besvaras i uppsatsen är följande.
Förstår eleverna varför de har NO i skolan?
Kan eleverna se att de har någon nytta av sin NO-kunskap i sin vardag?
Hur ser eleverna på sin NO-undervisning?
Harreld, Natalie P. "Changing The Climate Narrative: How A Long-Term Climate Change Might Save Our Lives." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/897.
Full textCole, Julian C. "Practice-dependent realism and mathematics." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1124122328.
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Trimble, Rita J. "Conceiving a "Natural Family" Order: The World Congress of Families and Transnational Conservative Christian Politics." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1388411714.
Full textPrunet, Anne. "Les littéracies en français sur objectifs universitaires : étude d’un corpus contrastif de productions écrites argumentées et perspectives didactiques." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA112/document.
Full textHow can we define the specific learning outcomes of non-native students of French within the area of written production ? In order to answer this question, we study a highly frequent genre within academic literacy : the argumentative text.Given the neccessity of jointly teaching language and discipline based contents, our study aims to add approaches and modalities to « general » French as a Foreign Language (FLE) used to teach French at university. Emphasizing both their added value to the teaching of non-native speakers and their shortcomings when dealing with French for academic purposes, we set out to analyse the following tools : textbooks following the action-oriented approach, CEFRL, and language certifications (such as TCF, DELF/DALF).Drawing on existing studies of French for academic purposes, we came up with five hypothesises prior to the study of a comparative corpus. This corpus was established in order to identify the non-native speakers’ specific needs when faced with an argumentative written production. It consists of both productions by non-native (corpus ETR) and native speakers of French (corpus FR). This material is presented and analysed within the frame of a typology based on our initial hypothesises resulting in a framework of criteria facilitating a diagnostic evaluation of the academic literacy competency. Finally, we give didactic suggestions for the teaching of French for academic purposes
Hu, Xiaoqin. "Etude de la fonction argumentale dans la perspective de l'acquisition automatique du vocabulaire." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCD042.
Full textThis thesis aims to study the argumental function for finding an efficient method to automatically acquire the terms. We start with a discussion on the problematic of the corpus which is: what kind of corpus should we choose and how should we construct the web corpus. Then, three methods are developed which are based on the morphological characteristics of lexical units and the relation between the appropriate predicates and their arguments. The distributional method tries to exploit the predicate-argument structures for identifying the arguments of the given semantic class. The morph-semantic method is developed on the basis of the morphological characteristics of the lexical units in order to extend the list of terms. The mixed method which combines the two precedent approaches permit to improve the result. Finally, we try to develop a statement on the natural language character, on the semantic class, on the specialized language and on the recursive nature of language in the perspective of natural language processing
Sequeira, João Manuel dos Santos. "Extracção de relações entre entidades mencionadas." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/11851.
Full textPaditz, Ludwig. "School-Mathematics all over the world – some differences." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-79263.
Full text"Everything is an Argument: A Poetry Collection." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-08-1184.
Full textWu, Chao-qin, and 吳朝欽. "The coherent argument of Wang Chong’s theory about the natural law –Study of Qi as the basic and nature as the rules." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73423282697180335504.
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The coherent argument of Wang Chong’s theory about the natural law –Study of Qi as the basic and nature as the rules Student :Wu Chao qin Advisor :Hu Shun ping Submitted to Graduate School of Chinese Literature Yuan Ze University ABSTRACT There are so many researches about Wang Chong but most of them are general ones. This thesis will prove that the theory about natural law is consistent by discussing the theories of natural law, nature and destiny, form and spirit, ghosts and gods, Qi as the basic and nature as the rules those are created by Wang Chong. There’re six chapters in this thesis. First chapter explains the reason and the materials of doing this research and how to build the framework of 「Qi as the basic and nature as the rules」. Second chapter discusses Wang Chong’s theory of Qi and establishes Qi for the substance of the theory of natural law via expounding three qualities of Qi:「substance, quality nature and eternity」. Third chapter talks over the meaning of theory of natural law and the definition of nature then investigates letting things take their own course, everything goes with nature and nature has no will to affect everything. Fourth chapter expounds and proves theory of nature is the forerunner of theory of destiny and has been continued by it, both of them are based on theory of Qi, therefore theory of nature and destiny is composed of them. Fifth chapter discusses the theories of「form and spirit」 and 「ghosts and gods」. Final chapter summarizes Wang Chong’s theory about natural law that is based on Qi and taking nature as the rules, expounds and proves it’s consistent and explains its influence in philosophy. Key words:Wang Chong、Qi、natural law。
Dishaw, Samuel. "L'éthique et sa place dans la nature." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/16195.
Full textOne of the burning questions among metaethical realists is whether moral facts and properties are natural or non-natural. In this thesis, I argue that we should treat a family of arguments for non-naturalism with considerable scepticism: the Open Question Argument, the Normative Intuition, and the argument from the Is-Ought Gap. Moore’s famous Open Question Argument only supports moral non-naturalism if it begs the question against the modest (non-reductionist) naturalist. As for the Normative Intuition, it either commits the fallacy of inferring on the basis of a thing’s specific difference that it does not belong to the genus it putatively belongs to, or it underestimates the breadth of natural properties that possess the features which non-naturalists allege are distinctive of moral and normative properties. The argument from the Is-Ought Gap, for its part, underestimates the ubiquity of the logical and conceptual gap that allegedly marks a deep metaphysical discontinuity between the normative and natural domains.
Chen, Hsuan-Ting active 2013. "Capturing the nature of issue publics : selectivity, deliberation, and activeness in the new media environment." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/21372.
Full textChiang, Chingmei, and 江青美. "On Mencius' Moral Praxis Based on "Innate Goodness of Human Nature" - Using "Keep the Resolution, Cultivate Spirit and Understand Words" as the Core Argument." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32435179558726006170.
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The ideal life in Confucian philosophy is dependent on the eventual achievement of becoming a saint, and how to attain this achievement relies on our first figuring out nature of mind theory and moral praxis. Moral praxis serves as a stepping stone to the rank of the sage, while what lies behind it is based on the view on human nature. As a result, the facts about human nature should be explored first before we begin to examine the direction and accomplishment of moral praxis. On the other hand, to explore the meaning and logic of moral praxis is to further expound and prove the realization possibility of the theory. This study attempts to cite Mencius as an example, and uses innate goodness of human nature theory that he contended as a path to researching moral praxis developed from this human nature theory. However, if the self-cultivation methods Mencius contended were to be discussed one by one, it would be an exceedingly complicated and gigantic work. Therefore, due to its limited length, this thesis has chosen these three moral praxises "keep the resolution, cultivate spirit and understand words” as the scope argument of this subject. And realization and achievement of the moral praxis is the ultimate issue this thesis pays special attention to. In this regard, this thesis will use the form realization in Mencius’ philosophy as the primary axis of discussion in a bid to analyze the process of moralization that is relied upon while we move from theory towards concrete realization. This thesis largely looks at the process as “the philosophical key to form realization: thought and sincerity” and the “spirit of taking responsibility" contained in Confucianism. In brief, the main research work of this thesis includes: 1. conducting content interpretation of Mencius' innate goodness of human nature theory; 2. discussing the methodology developed by Mencius via innate goodness of human nature theory: keep the resolution, cultivate spirit and understand words; and 3. exploring how Mencius attained the goal of form realization through the innate goodness of human nature theory he had presented. From the beginning of history, nature of mind theory has always been one of the mainstream issues discussed in Chinese philosophy, while discourses on Mencius’ “innate goodness of human nature” are as many as the stars in the sky. There have been outstanding analyses and insights presented by scholars at home and abroad as well as by nowadays and historical savants. Therefore, although the beginning of the second chapter of this thesis still conducts content interpretation by returning to the original “Mencius and Gaozi’s debates,” it subsequently uses the “contrast” method to analyze and discuss the differences between Mencius’ “innate goodness of human nature” and Zhuxi’s “original innate goodness of human nature” in a bid to further highlight the true meaning of Mencius’ “innate goodness of human nature.” The third chapter analyzes the principles of "keep the resolution, cultivate spirit and understand words” in Mencius’ self-cultivation theory as well as how they establish their foundations in Mencius’ innate goodness of human nature theory and what role and position it has after we attain the level of a sage. The fourth chapter explores the final phase of achieving “the realization of the bodily value” in the aspect of “fulfillment and realization,” and the fifth chapter presents general conclusions.
Neefus, Suzanne. "A Benefit Argument for Responsibilities to Rectify Injustice." 2016. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/194.
Full textHuang, Bo-Wei, and 黃柏巍. "Argument Strength and Product Attribute: The Effect of Mental Simulations on Native Advertising." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gg2333.
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Due to the non-intrusive and low recognition of native ads, the click-through rate is much higher than that of traditional banner ads. However, the number of click-through rate does not mean that consumers are really favored. This study aims to explore whether the design of the cognitive-oriented in the native advertisement might generate better advertising effects. An experiment with a 2(Mental simulations: process-focused vs. outcome-focused)x2(Argument Strength: strong vs. weak)x2(Product Attribute: hedonic vs. utilitarian)between-subject design was conducted to identify the impact of consumer perceptions and purchase intention on native advertising. The experiment results show that (1) Native advertisement using utilitarian attribute generates a better product attitude than hedonic attribute; (2) In the native advertisement, the use of strong argument generates a better effects than the weak argument; (3) In the native advertisement of utilitarian attribute, the use of outcome-focused mental simulation generates a better advertising attitude; (4) In the native advertisement of utilitarian attribute, the use of strong argument generates a better product attitude; (5) In the native advertisement of mental simulation design, the use of strong argument has a better advertising attitude.
Šinaľ, Martin. "Analýza argumentů Francise Fukuyamy ilustrovaná na současné dystopické kulturní produkci." Master's thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-267908.
Full textErasmus, Jacobus Petrus. "The Kalām Cosmological Argument and the Infinite God Object / Jacobus Petrus Erasmus." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/11024.
Full textMPhil, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014
Lemos, Olga Kosaryga de. "Proficiência na produção de estruturas argumentais preposicionais por aprendentes de Português como Língua Não Materna." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/83583.
Full textO objetivo fundamental deste estudo é o de (dar a) conhecer o grau de proficiência que aprendentes de português como língua não materna (PLNM) apresentam no decurso do seu processo de aprendizagem da estrutura argumental preposicional (EAP) em português. Mais concretamente, pretende-se perceber se há correlação entre o nível de conhecimento (QECR) dos aprendentes de PLNM e a aprendizagem da EAP em português. Para tal, avalia-se através de inquéritos, propositadamente elaborados para o presente trabalho, se a frequência dos verbos e/ou das preposições das EAP têm peso positivo/negativo/nenhum ao longo do processo de aprendizagem dessas EAP, e se a frequência do input apresenta algum tipo de influência no desempenho dos alunos, no domínio em estudo. Pretende-se ainda conhecer que preposição é substituída e/ou omitida mais vezes pelos aprendentes de A1/ A2, B1, B2 e C1, e qual a preposição utlizada mais vezes por esses aprendentes para substituir as preposições pretendidas. Com o intuito de conhecer qual verbo/preposição/EAP se aprende com mais dificuldade/facilidade, a informação dos inquéritos foi analisada em função do nível do QECR dos aprendentes, da frequência dos verbos e de uma tipologia de ocorrências desviantes, formulada previamente. A análise dos dados empíricos revela que as EAP com as preposições de e em (as mais frequentes no português) não trazem muitos problemas aos alunos de A1/ A2 e B1. Ainda a preposição de foi a mais utilizada para substituir as adequadas. Os aprendentes de B2 e C1 mostram menos dificuldades nas EAP com a preposição com. Além disso, verifica-se que as EAP com a são a fonte das maiores dificuldades para todos os aprendentes, sendo também esta preposição a que é substituída com mais frequência pelos alunos. A preposição mais omissa foi por (em A1 e A2), provavelmente por ser pouco frequente nos níveis elementares. Verificou-se que a frequência dos verbos tem influência (positiva e negativa) ao longo de processo de aprendizagem das EAP. Em muitos casos, as EAP dos verbos mais frequentes são aprendidas com mais facilidade, enquanto as EAP dos verbos menos frequentes provocam mais problemas aos alunos de todos os níveis. Por outro lado, o sentido dos verbos (mais concreto ou mais abstrato) também tem um peso não negligenciável. Ou seja, as EAP dos verbos com sentidos mais concretos (de espaço, de tempo, de movimento) são mais facilmente assimiladas pelos alunos de PLNM – e como tal objeto de menos desvios –, enquanto as EAP dos verbos com sentidos abstratos (de crença, de atividade psicológica) são objeto de maior dificuldade. Constatou-se ainda que o input tem influência (positiva ou negativa) na proficiência dos alunos: as EAP encontradas com mais frequência no input são assimiladas com mais facilidade pelos alunos de PLNM e, pelo contrário, aquelas com as quais o contacto é menor provocam mais dificuldades. Por último, não há apenas um fator, mas vários, que ajuda(m) ou dificulta(m) a aprendizagem proficiente das EAP: a frequência das preposições/verbos/EAP e do input, o sentido das preposições e verbos, o contexto onde as EAP estão inseridas, o nível de proficiência linguística dos alunos e o seu conhecimento do mundo interferem no desempenho destes aquando da sua aprendizagem das EAP do PLNM.
The fundamental objective of this study is to know the degree of proficiency that learners of Portuguese as a Non-Native Language (PNNL) present in their learning process of the prepositional argument structure (PAS) in Portuguese. More specifically, the study aims to understand if there is a correlation between the level of knowledge of PNNL learners and the learning of Portuguese PAS. Through specially elaborated surveys, it assesses whether verb frequency and preposition frequency, amongst other factors, have a positive, a negative or no effect (at all) in the learning process of PAS, and if the frequency of input has some kind of influence on students’ choices. It also tries to establish which preposition is more often replaced or suppressed and what preposition is more used by these learners in order to replace the intended one. In order to know which verb/ preposition/ PAS is learned more easily / more difficulty, survey data was analyzed according to the level of the Common Reference Language Framework (CRLF) learning levels (CRLF A1, A2, B1, B2 and C1), verb frequency and types of deviant occurrence. Data analysis shows that PAS with the prepositions de and em (the most frequent prepositions in Portuguese) do not bring many problems to A1/ A2 and B1 students. In addition, de was also the most used preposition in order to replace others. B2 and C1 learners show less difficulties in PAS with the preposition com (which has a more concrete meaning). All PAS with a are very difficult for all learners and a has been replaced more frequently. Por was very often omitted by A1/ A2 learners, probably because it is less frequent at these learning levels. Verb frequency and meaning (more concrete / more abstract) also influence (positively and negatively) PAS learning processes. In many cases, the structure of the highest frequency verbs is learned more easily, whereas the structure of low frequency verbs entails more problems at all levels. Also, PAS of verbs with a more concrete meaning (space, time, movement) are more easily learned by students, while PAS of verbs with an abstract meaning (belief or physiological activity) are more difficult. Finally, high or low input also has some influence in PAS learning. PAS found with more frequency in the input don’t bring many problems to the students. On the contrary, less frequent PAS cause more difficulties. Overall, data show that learning of PAS in Portuguese does not depend on one factor alone, but rather depends on several intertwined factors: frequency of prepositions/ verbs/ PAS and input, PAS context, meaning of prepositions and verbs, students’ linguistic proficiency and their knowledge of the world.
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