... distributional repre-sentations for wordmeaning in context, using the context to activate relevant exemplars. Comparingrepresentations of context, bag-of-words (BOW)representations are more ... strong clues as to word sense.5 Conclusions and OutlookThis paper reports on work in progress on an ex-emplar activation model as an alternative to one-vector-per -word approaches to wordmeaning ... dynamically for each sentence context, usinga simple bag-of-words representation of context. In cognitive science, prototype models predictdegree of category membership through similar-ity to a...
... the context of the sentence to determine the meaning of the italicized word. Determining Meaning from Context 216 DETERMININGMEANING FROM CONTEXT 23There are two other types of contextclues ... your word base, the more you will comprehend, and the less time youwill spend looking up words.Ever since you were learning your first words, you have been determining meaning from context. Context ... tone.GLOSSARYDENOTATIONa word s exact meaning or dictionary definitionCONNOTATIONa word s implied meaning or emotional impactWhen you come across an unfamiliar word, the context will often reveala...
... words in the question: how many, bites, and death. Then, scan the paragraph looking forthe sentence that discusses the number of deadly bites.Note that the key word might not be the exact word ... case, your key words are number, bites, and fatal. But you won’t find “fatal” anywhere in the pas-sage. As you scan, then, you need to keep your eyes open for the key words and other words that might ... organized by chronology provide us with lots of clues to help us follow the passage of time.They use transitional words and phrases to guide us through the text. The transitions help us see when...
... the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary words.You have to look for clues in the context. The best clues typ-ically come from the writer’s word choice.WORD CHOICEOften the best clues to meaning ... subject.By looking closely at word choice, you will find clues that can help you better understand the text. Word choice clues can come in the following forms:■particular words and phrases that the ... become more aware of connotation, rank the following sets of words. Give the word with the strongest connotation a score of (1) and the word with the weakest (most neutral) connota-tion a (4).1....
... diabetesd. to describe the health problem caused by both types of diabetes8. The word alleviate in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning toa. get rid of.b. reduce.c. increase.d. medicate.9. Insulin ... more freedom to play with grammar and stylistic conventions. We can useslang, clip off endings of words, and state incomplete or run-on thoughts. Because we are speaking, often for-mulating our ... ameal, the normal digestive system breaks some food down into glucose. The blood carries glucosethroughout the body, causing blood glucose levels to rise. In response to this rise, the hormoneinsulin...
... sentences (“structure”sentences with underlined words and phrases will be questions) and Part B consists of 25 sentences with presented at random. underlined words and phrases (“written expression”questions).The ... dependingupon how you answered the first question. The rest of the questions will follow this pattern. Throughout the struc-ture section on the computer-based test, the level of difficulty of each question ... STYLE–53Computer-Based Test vs. Paper-Based Test INDEPENDENT ANDDEPENDENT CLAUSESA clause is a group of words that has a subject and a predicate (clauses can have direct and indirect objects,too). A...
... tornwear wore wornblow blew blowndraw drew drawnfly flew flown A word s part of speech determines its function and form. The word quiet, for example, can be either a verb oran adjective; it ... independent thought, however, can stand alone.What makes the dependent clause above dependent is the word because. Because is one of many subor-dinating conjunctions like the following:SUBORDINATING ... INDEPENDENT ANDDEPENDENT CLAUSESA clause is a group of words that has a subject and a predicate (clauses can have direct and indirect objects,too). A...
... bilin-gual word alignment finds word- to -word connec-tions across languages. Originally introduced as abyproduct of training statistical translation modelsin (Brown et al., 1993), word alignment ... traditional word alignment techniques.Otherwise, the features remain the same,including distance features that measureabsj|E|−k|F |; orthographic features; word frequencies; common -word ... structure thatconnects two parallel sentences, and a link beone of the word- to -word connections that makeup an alignment. All word alignment methodsbenefit from some set of constraints. These limitthe...
... with the most votes) ofthe target word. The process is repeated for alloccurrences that have the target word. If each word that co-occurs with the target word votes asdescribed for DIU, ... not use a window size of just one or twowords on either side of the target word, but rather windowsof5 words in our experiments.3SENSEVAL-1 head words have a wide range of possiblesenses, ... Information3.1 Word Category Co-occurrence MatrixThe strength of association between a particularcategory of the target word and its co-occurringwords can be very useful—calculating word sensedominance...
... 1450-2887 Issue 19 (2010) â EuroJournals, Inc. 2010 http://www.eurojournals.com Determining Value Creation through Mergers and Acquisitions in the Banking Industry using Accounting Study and ... major banking corporations. It will examine how shareholders react to potential losses and gains through stock price manipulation. This research will attempt to answer the question of whether ... market. The company’s future in terms of the revenue available for new investments is accessed only through accounting techniques. But in modern public organization the shareholder’s support greatly...
... sth lasts.Spell2 (n): #magic; words that are thought to have magic power or to make a piece of magic work, a piece of magic that happens when sb says magic words.4. To spit(v)To spit1...