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Huapu Liu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This two-part dissertation centers on a re-examination of the role of book indexes in information retrieval research on full-text digital book collections in digital libraries. Early research focused on information retrieval and book indexes (in addition to other parts of books) in the 2000s when the Google Books corpus was first released to the…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Indexes, Reference Materials, Semantics
Sawrey, Katharine B. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This work is an exploration of upper elementary students' sense making around four conventional representations of function: equations with algebraic notation, Cartesian graphs, function tables, and natural language. The cornerstone to the empirical work is a task called the Function Puzzle, where students are given 16 cards representing four…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mathematical Concepts, Algebra, Graphs
Taheriyan, Mohsen – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Information sources such as relational databases, spreadsheets, XML, JSON, and Web APIs contain a tremendous amount of structured data, however, they rarely provide a semantic model to describe their contents. Semantic models of data sources capture the intended meaning of data sources by mapping them to the concepts and relationships defined by a…
Descriptors: Semantics, Information Sources, Data, Models
Keil, Benjamin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation presents a novel method of sentence generation, drawing on the insight from Cognitive Semantics (Talmy, 2000a,b) that the effect of uttering a sentence is to evoke a Cognitive Representation in the mind of the listener. Under the assumption that this Cognitive Representation is also present in the speaker and defines (part of)…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Research Methodology, Graphs
Smith, David Arthur – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Much recent work in natural language processing treats linguistic analysis as an inference problem over graphs. This development opens up useful connections between machine learning, graph theory, and linguistics. The first part of this dissertation formulates syntactic dependency parsing as a dynamic Markov random field with the novel…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Bilingualism, Monolingualism
Schultheis, Maria Luiza Carrano – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The usage and disappearance of the Central Ibero-Romance future subjunctive have been extensively researched through Old Spanish texts. Studies on the future subjunctive as it evolved in the farther Western Ibero-Romance languages, represented by Galician and Portuguese, have been scarce, if not incomplete. This dissertation partially fills the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Morphemes, Medieval History