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- Paradis, Carita, et al.
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Negation and approximation as configurational construals in SPACE
- 2013
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Ingår i: The Construal of Spatial Meaning Windows into Conceptual Space. - 9780199641635
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is a window into conceptual space through antonyms, negated antonyms and antonyms modified by degree modifiers. It investigates native speakers’ understanding of negation in combination with BOUNDED antonymic adjectival meanings and also in relation to their interpretations of the approximating degree modifier, ‘almost’ in Swedish. The results of the investigation are compared with a similar study by Paradis and Willners (2006), which includes ‘not’ with UNBOUNDED SCALE meanings and in relation to ‘fairly’. We propose that ‘not’ is a degree modifier and like all other degree modifiers it operates on the configurational construals in SPACE. In combination with BOUNDED antonyms ‘not’ operates on the boundary and bisects a spatial structure. The combinations of ‘not’ and BOUNDED meanings are interpreted as synonyms of their antonyms. ‘Almost closed’ differs significantly from ‘closed’ but is not significantly different from ‘not open’. In contrast, in combination with UNBOUNDED antonyms, ‘not’ modifies the UNBOUNDED SCALE structure and evokes a range on the scale in SPACE in the same way as ‘fairly’ does. While the results for the UNBOUNDED meanings are very robust across all test items, the BOUNDED meanings are much more volatile and adaptive to alternative scalar interpretations.
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- Acquaviva, Paolo, et al.
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Models of lexical meaning
- 2020
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Ingår i: Word knolwedge and word usage : a cross-disciplinary guide to the mental lexicon - a cross-disciplinary guide to the mental lexicon. - : De Gruyter. - 1861-4302. - 9783110517484 - 9783110440577 - 9783110432442 ; , s. 353-404
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Lexical semantics is concerned with modeling the meaning of lexicalitems. Its leading questions are how forms and meanings combine, what theymean, how they are used, and of course also how they change. The answers tothese five questions make up the fundamental theoretical assumptions and commitments which underlie different theories of lexical semantics, and they form the basis for their various methodological choices. In this chapter, we discuss four main models of lexical meaning: relational, symbolic, conceptual and distributional. The aim is to investigate their historical background, their specific differences, the methodological and theoretical assumptions that lie behind those differences, the main strengths and the main challenges of each perspective.
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- Alfalahi, Alyaa, et al.
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Expanding a dictionary of marker words for uncertainty and negation using distributional semantics
- 2015
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Ingår i: EMNLP 2015 - 6th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, LOUHI 2015 : Proceedings of the Workshop - Proceedings of the Workshop. - : Association for Computational Linguistics. - 9781941643327 ; , s. 90-96
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Approaches to determining the factuality of diagnoses and findings in clinical text tend to rely on dictionaries of marker words for uncertainty and negation. Here, a method for semi-automatically expanding a dictionary of marker words using distributional semantics is presented and evaluated. It is shown that ranking candidates for inclusion according to their proximity to cluster centroids of semantically similar seed words is more successful than ranking them according to proximity to each individual seed word.
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- Bianchi, Ivana, et al.
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Identification of opposites and intermediates by eye and by hand
- 2017
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Ingår i: Acta Psychologica. - 1873-6297. ; 180, s. 175-189
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this eye-tracking and drawing study, we investigate the perceptual grounding of different types of spatial dimensions such as DENSE–SPARSE and TOP–BOTTOM, focusing both on the participants’ experiences of the opposite regions, e.g., O1: DENSE; O2: SPARSE, and the region that is experienced as intermediate, e.g., INT: NEITHER DENSE NOR SPARSE. Six spatial dimensions expected to have three different perceptual structures in terms of the point and range nature of O1, INT and O2 were analysed. Presented with images, the participants were instructed to identify each region (O1, INT, O2), first by looking at the region, and then circumscribing it using the computer mouse. We measured the eye movements, identification times and various characteristics of the drawings such as the relative size of the three regions, overlaps and gaps. Three main results emerged. Firstly, generally speaking, intermediate regions were not different from the poles on any of the indicators: overall identification times, number of fixations, and locations. Some differences emerged with regard to the duration of fixations for point INTs and the number of fixations for range INTs between two range poles (O1, O2). Secondly, the analyses of the fixation locations showed that the poles support the identification of the intermediate region as much as the intermediate region supports the identification of the poles. Finally, the relative size of the three areas selected in the marking task were consistent with the classification of the regions as points or ranges. The analyses of the gaps and the overlaps between the three areas showed that the intermediate is neither O1 nor O2, but an entity in its own right.
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- Burro, Roberto, et al.
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Is there an association between consumers’ personality traits and the sensory characteristics they look for in wine?
- 2023
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Ingår i: Food Quality and Preference. - : Elsevier BV. - 0950-3293. ; 105
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the link between the personality profiles and socio-demographic characteristics of wine consumers and the sensory characteristics of the wines they prefer. This was measured in terms of a self-reported list of the wines they like and buy. The 1176 Italian adults who participated were asked to complete an online form. Information was collected regarding certain socio-demographic details and the participants’ personality profile (established by means of the Big Five Inventory 2 by Soto & John, 2017). The participants were then asked to specify their favorite types of wines (open response: “Which wines do you like the most? Please list the wines that you like and buy”). The sensory profiles of the 258 wines in total listed by the participants were described by four of the experimenters (based on official reviews) in terms of eight variables: the degree of Alcohol, Acidity, Sweetness, Body, Tannicity, Sapidity, Persistence and Complexity of bouquet.Various associations were found between the sensory characteristics of the wines listed and the socio-demographic characteristics analyzed (gender, age and wine expertise), and between the sensory characteristics of the wines and the participants’ personality traits. For example, we found that extroverts prefer more acidic wines, sociable people like wines characterized by a high alcohol content and with a more complex bouquet, people with high emotional stability prefer tannic, persistent, full-bodied wines and open-minded people favor wines with a persistent flavor and high levels of tannicity while they don't like sapidity. Almost all of these associations were consistent across gender. The study contributes to academic research on the relationships between consumers' characteristics and their wine preferences, and it provides insights which are interesting for the wine industry and other wine distribution channels in terms of market orientation.
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- Caballero, Rosario, et al.
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Making sense of sensory perceptions across languages and cultures
- 2015
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Ingår i: Functions of Language. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1569-9765. ; 22:1, s. 1-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article has two aims: (i) to give an overview of research on sensory perceptions in different disciplines with different aims, and on the basis of that (ii) to encourage new research based on a balanced socio-sensory-cognitive approach. It emphasizes the need to study sensory meanings in human communication, both in Language with a capital L, focusing on universal phenomena, and across different languages, and within Culture with a capital C, such as parts of the world and political regions, and across different cultures, such as markets, production areas and aesthetic activities, in order to stimulate work resulting in more sophisticated, theoretically informed analyses of language use in general, and meaning-making of sensory perceptions in particular.
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