Myth and poetry in Archaic Greece: a comparative approach

Papers from the second and third international symposia on symbolism at The Norwegian institute at Athens, September 21-24, 2000 and September 19-22, 2002

Phoenix, Achilles and a narrative pattern

Book 9 of the Iliad, universally considered one of the most marvelous in the poem, has also been a bone of contention in many scholarly debates. Suggesting that an important aspect of the speech Phoenix gave as a member of Agamemnon’s embassy to Achilles has nevertheless been overlooked by scholars, the paper makes it the focus of its interest. Unlike most researchers, who have taken the side of the envoys, the author casts a different light on Achilles’ reasons for declining the embassy and suggests that the text invites the readers to share their sympathies between the characters

What is a meaningful representation of protein sequences?

How we choose to represent our data has a fundamental impact on our ability to subsequently extract information from them. Machine learning promises to automatically determine efficient representations from large unstructured datasets, such as those arising in biology. However, empirical evidence suggests that seemingly minor changes to these machine learning models yield drastically different data representations that result in different biological interpretations of data. This begs the question of what even constitutes the most meaningful representation. Here, we approach this question for representations of protein sequences, which have received considerable attention in the recent literature. We explore two key contexts in which representations naturally arise: transfer learning and interpretable learning. In the first context, we demonstrate that several contemporary practices yield suboptimal performance, and in the latter we demonstrate that taking representation geometry into account significantly improves interpretability and lets the models reveal biological information that is otherwise obscured.Comment: 17 pages, 8 figures, 2 table

E-mailhilsner: Relation, variation og akkommodation

In this paper, we present a study of how Danish language users choose to greet each other in emails. The study is based on an online survey with 1311 anonymous respondents. The study shows that the choice of greeting forms is no trivial matter but something that prompts much consideration. Greeting forms are expressions of phatic communication, but they are also signals of how the senders assess the relation between themselves and the receiver. As a consequence of this, we see that accommodation is a driving force in the choosing of greeting form

At have eller ikke have Trykfordeling i sætninger med har og negation

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Et system i stadig bevægelse: Pronominalkasus i dansk

The theme of this paper is the distribution of the nominative and the oblique form in personal pronouns in Danish. The paper has a dual aim: to provide a diachronic overview of changes in the use of the case forms in the past 700 years, and to show how a grammatical system simultaneously is consistent and subject to change

Peter og mig, vi gik i biografen. Paratagmer i ekstraposition i dansk

This paper presents a study on the distribution of the case forms in personal pronouns used in dislocated coordinated conjuncts in Danish. Based on previous work on case distribution, coordinated conjuncts and dislocated pronouns, it is expected that pronouns will appear in the oblique form. This is tested empirically against a large corpus of coordinated conjuncts in spoken Danish. However, the results of the test do not satisfy the expectations. This prompts considerations on the nature of grammar in spoken language with reference to Auer’s (2009) notion of ‘on-line syntax’, and it also gives occasion to revisit the dependency relations between the entities in NP’s such as Peter og mig ‘Peter and me’

Hvis børn er det egentlig? Om relativsætninger, bestemthed mm. i Skånske Lov i ældre middeldansk

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