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The Allergic Bodies Conference: Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Research Conference, 2010
This is the programme document for the annual Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Research Conference with Keynotes: Dr Jennifer Bajorek (Goldsmiths), Marianne Sjelsford (National Academy of Arts, Oslo, Sweden); Dr Maarten Vanvolsem (Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Katholieke Universiteit, Brussels), Professor Pedro Lasch (Duke University)
Is literary language a development of ordinary language?
Contemporary literary linguistics is guided by the 'Development Hypothesis' which says that literary language is formed and regulated by developing only the elements, rules and constraints of ordinary language. Six ways of differentiating literary language from ordinary language are tested against the Development Hypothesis, as are various kinds of superadded constraint including metre, rhyme and alliteration and parallelism. Literary language differs formally, but is unlikely to differ semantically from ordinary language. The article concludes by asking why the Development Hypothesis might hold
Meaningfulness, the unsaid and translatability. Instead of an introduction
The present paper opens this topical issue on translation techniques by drawing a theoretical basis for the discussion of translational issues in a linguistic perspective. In order to forward an audience- oriented definition of translation, I will describe different forms of linguistic variability, highlighting how they present different difficulties to translators, with an emphasis on the semantic and communicative complexity that a source text can exhibit. The problem is then further discussed through a comparison between Quine's radically holistic position and the translatability principle supported by such semanticists as Katz. General translatability â at the expense of additional complexity â is eventually proposed as a possible synthesis of this debate. In describing the meaningfulness levels of source texts through Hjelmslevian semiotics, and his semiotic hierarchy in particular, the paper attempts to go beyond denotative semiotic, and reframe some translational issues in a connotative semiotic and metasemiotic perspective
Linguistically-Informed Neural Architectures for Lexical, Syntactic and Semantic Tasks in Sanskrit
The primary focus of this thesis is to make Sanskrit manuscripts more
accessible to the end-users through natural language technologies. The
morphological richness, compounding, free word orderliness, and low-resource
nature of Sanskrit pose significant challenges for developing deep learning
solutions. We identify four fundamental tasks, which are crucial for developing
a robust NLP technology for Sanskrit: word segmentation, dependency parsing,
compound type identification, and poetry analysis. The first task, Sanskrit
Word Segmentation (SWS), is a fundamental text processing task for any other
downstream applications. However, it is challenging due to the sandhi
phenomenon that modifies characters at word boundaries. Similarly, the existing
dependency parsing approaches struggle with morphologically rich and
low-resource languages like Sanskrit. Compound type identification is also
challenging for Sanskrit due to the context-sensitive semantic relation between
components. All these challenges result in sub-optimal performance in NLP
applications like question answering and machine translation. Finally, Sanskrit
poetry has not been extensively studied in computational linguistics.
While addressing these challenges, this thesis makes various contributions:
(1) The thesis proposes linguistically-informed neural architectures for these
tasks. (2) We showcase the interpretability and multilingual extension of the
proposed systems. (3) Our proposed systems report state-of-the-art performance.
(4) Finally, we present a neural toolkit named SanskritShala, a web-based
application that provides real-time analysis of input for various NLP tasks.
Overall, this thesis contributes to making Sanskrit manuscripts more accessible
by developing robust NLP technology and releasing various resources, datasets,
and web-based toolkit.Comment: Ph.D. dissertatio
âSome like it hotâ:spectators who score high on the personality trait openness enjoy the excitement of hearing dancers breathing without music
Music is an integral part of dance. Over the last 10 years, however, dance stimuli (without music) have been repeatedly used to study action observation processes, increasing our understanding of the influence of observerâs physical abilities on action perception. Moreover, beyond trained skills and empathy traits, very little has been investigated on how other observer or spectatorsâ properties modulate action observation and action preference. Since strong correlations have been shown between music and personality traits, here we aim to investigate how personality traits shape the appreciation of dance when this is presented with three different music/sounds. Therefore, we investigated the relationship between personality traits and the subjective esthetic experience of 52 spectators watching a 24 min lasting contemporary dance performance projected on a big screen containing three movement phrases performed to three different sound scores: classical music (i.e., Bach), an electronic sound-score, and a section without music but where the breathing of the performers was audible. We found that first, spectators rated the experience of watching dance without music significantly different from with music. Second, we found that the higher spectators scored on the Big Five personality factor openness, the more they liked the no-music section. Third, spectatorsâ physical experience with dance was not linked to their appreciation but was significantly related to high average extravert scores. For the first time, we showed that spectatorsâ reported entrainment to watching dance movements without music is strongly related to their personality and thus may need to be considered when using dance as a means to investigate action observation processes and esthetic preferences
Sudeep Sen: an Interview
An in-depth interview with poet, editor and critic Sudeep Sen, discussing his various books, postcolonial theory, and form. Extensive quotations from his poetry are included
Foundation to Promote Scholarship and Teaching 2012-2013 Awards
Proposal abstracts of 2012-2013 award recipients in a wide range of disciplinary areas
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