12 research outputs found
Linguistic-based Patterns for Figurative Language Processing: The Case of Humor Recognition and Irony Detection
El lenguaje figurado representa una de las tareas más difÃciles del procesamiento del lenguaje natural. A
diferencia del lenguaje literal, el lenguaje figurado hace uso de recursos lingüÃsticos tales como la
ironÃa, el humor, el sarcasmo, la metáfora, la analogÃa, entre otros, para comunicar significados
indirectos que la mayorÃa de las veces no son interpretables sólo en términos de información sintáctica
o semántica. Por el contrario, el lenguaje figurado refleja patrones del pensamiento que adquieren
significado pleno en contextos comunicativos y sociales, lo cual hace que tanto su representación
lingüÃstica, asà como su procesamiento computacional, se vuelvan tareas por demás complejas.
En este contexto, en esta tesis de doctorado se aborda una problemática relacionada con el
procesamiento del lenguaje figurado a partir de patrones lingüÃsticos. En particular, nuestros esfuerzos
se centran en la creación de un sistema capaz de detectar automáticamente instancias de humor e ironÃa
en textos extraÃdos de medios sociales. Nuestra hipótesis principal se basa en la premisa de que el
lenguaje refleja patrones de conceptualización; es decir, al estudiar el lenguaje, estudiamos tales
patrones. Por tanto, al analizar estos dos dominios del lenguaje figurado, pretendemos dar argumentos
respecto a cómo la gente los concibe, y sobre todo, a cómo esa concepción hace que tanto humor como
ironÃa sean verbalizados de una forma particular en diversos medios sociales. En este contexto, uno de
nuestros mayores intereses es demostrar cómo el conocimiento que proviene del análisis de diferentes
niveles de estudio lingüÃstico puede representar un conjunto de patrones relevantes para identificar
automáticamente usos figurados del lenguaje. Cabe destacar que contrario a la mayorÃa de
aproximaciones que se han enfocado en el estudio del lenguaje figurado, en nuestra investigación no
buscamos dar argumentos basados únicamente en ejemplos prototÃpicos, sino en textos cuyas
caracterÃsticasReyes Pérez, A. (2012). Linguistic-based Patterns for Figurative Language Processing: The Case of Humor Recognition and Irony Detection [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/16692Palanci
Have media texts become more humorous?
As a research topic, humour has drawn much attention from multiple disciplines including linguistics. Based on Engelthaler & Hills’ (2018) humour scale, this study developed a measure named Humour Index (HMI) to quantify the degree of humour of texts. This measure was applied to examine the diachronic changes in the degree of humour of American newspapers and magazines across a time span of 118 years (1900-2017) with the use of texts from Corpus of Historical American English (COHA). Besides, the study also discussed the contributions of different types of words to the degree of humour in the two genres. The results show significant uptrends in the degree of humour of both newspapers and magazines in the examined period. Moreover, derogatory and offensive words are found to be less frequently used than other categories of words in both genres. This study provides both theoretical and methodological implications for humour studies and claims or hypotheses of previous research, such as infotainment and linguistic positivity bias
Making music out of architecture and from-architecture-music-an oddyssey
These are the documents submitted for the First Review as work-in-progress, the first (longer) and the second (shorter) versions of the PhD research project to date, together with a summary titled The Final Proposal for PhD for First Review September 2019. Please note that the first version is unfinished and needs approximately another 30,000 words, questions answered, some further exploration of points raised in discussion and other relevant points, revision and editing. The second version is on-going.
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Communicating Science
Modern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession—and it is a practice with deep historical roots. We have seen the birth of interactive science centres, the first university actions in teaching and conducting research, and a sharp growth in employment of science communicators. This collection charts the emergence of modern science communication across the world. This is the first volume to map investment around the globe in science centres, university courses and research, publications and conferences as well as tell the national stories of science communication. How did it all begin? How has development varied from one country to another? What motivated governments, institutions and people to see science communication as an answer to questions of the social place of science? Communicating Science describes the pathways followed by 39 different countries. All continents and many cultures are represented. For some countries, this is the first time that their science communication story has been told
Communicating Science
Modern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession—and it is a practice with deep historical roots. We have seen the birth of interactive science centres, the first university actions in teaching and conducting research, and a sharp growth in employment of science communicators. This collection charts the emergence of modern science communication across the world. This is the first volume to map investment around the globe in science centres, university courses and research, publications and conferences as well as tell the national stories of science communication. How did it all begin? How has development varied from one country to another? What motivated governments, institutions and people to see science communication as an answer to questions of the social place of science? Communicating Science describes the pathways followed by 39 different countries. All continents and many cultures are represented. For some countries, this is the first time that their science communication story has been told
Discourses We Live By
"What are the influences that govern how people view their worlds? What are the embedded values and practices that underpin the ways people think and act?
Discourses We Live By approaches these questions through narrative research, in a process that uses words, images, activities or artefacts to ask people – either individually or collectively within social groupings – to examine, discuss, portray or otherwise make public their place in the world, their sense of belonging to (and identity within) the physical and cultural space they inhabit.
This book is a rich and multifaceted collection of twenty-eight chapters that use varied lenses to examine the discourses that shape people’s lives. The contributors are themselves from many backgrounds – different academic disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, diverse professional practices and a range of countries and cultures. They represent a broad spectrum of age, status and outlook, and variously apply their research methods – but share a common interest in people, their lives, thoughts and actions. Gathering such eclectic experiences as those of student-teachers in Kenya, a released prisoner in Denmark, academics in Colombia, a group of migrants learning English, and gambling addiction support-workers in Italy, alongside more mainstream educational themes, the book presents a fascinating array of insights.
Discourses We Live By will be essential reading for adult educators and practitioners, those involved with educational and professional practice, narrative researchers, and many sociologists. It will appeal to all who want to know how narratives shape the way we live and the way we talk about our lives.
L'histoire contemporaine à l'ère numérique / Contemporary History in the Digital Age
Depuis plusieurs décennies, les usages du numérique en histoire se multiplient. Mais l'histoire contemporaine est parfois restée à la marge de ce mouvement. Ce livre, qui recouvre divers usages du numérique, ses outils, ses méthodes, sera à la fois une bonne introduction pour les historiens désirant se renseigner sur les usages informatiques en histoire contemporaine, et un outil utile aux chercheurs et aux enseignants plus rompus à cette utilisation
COVID-2019 Impacts on Education Systems and Future of Higher Education
The rapid outbreak of the COVID-19 has presented unprecedented challenges on education systems. Closing schools and universities and cancelling face-to-face activities have become a COVID-19 inevitable reality in most parts of the world. To be business-as-usual, many higher education providers have taken steps toward digital transformation, and implementing a range of remote teaching, learning and assessment approaches. This book provides timely research on COVID-19 impacts on education systems and seeks to bring together scholars, educators, policymakers and practitioners to collectively and critically identify, investigate and share best practices that lead to rethinking and reframing the way we deliver education in future
Beauty and Esthetics. Meanings of an Idea and Concept of the Senses. An Introduction to an Esthetic Communication Concept Facing the Perspectives Of Its Theory, History, and Cultural Traditions of the Beautiful.
When we ask for the definitions and forms of esthetics from a post-modern perspective, we must take into account that the perspective today is a re-constructive one allowing us to trace back historically, but also allowing various forms of research such as empirical research, or quantitative and qualitative research. This book is devided into chapters. Each of them has a different approach towards esthetics according to the definition of esthetics as a theoretical field, esthetics as a phenomenon of beauty, and esthetics as a specific phenomenon in a certain cultural context. We will focus on the contemporary state of research regarding esthetics from branches of the humanities and natural sciences. Our interest here is to join the classical theoretical terminology of esthetics derived from the humanities with contemporary concepts of research also not related to the humanities