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Reversing the perspective on Quantifier Raising
No full textQuantifier Raising is an “invisible movement” operation which removes a quantifier from an argument position and attaches it to the compositional level corresponding to its scope. QR is controversial because, from the semantic viewpoint, it requires a weakened version of compositionality, and from the syntactic viewpoint, it is not triggered by any feature. In this paper we outline a novel perspective, by reversing the direction of the syntactic computation from bottom-up to top-down. This perspective accounts for various ‘exceptional’ properties of QR, in particular, the fact that it is clause-bound, and the fact that it gives rise to Weak Crossover effects
An open multimedia system to retrieve and organise documents: an adaptive web based IR system in the field of textile and clothing industry, Proceedings of Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive web-based System
No full textThe cartography of Negative Markers: why negation breaks the assumption of LF/PF isomorphism
Full text linkThe interpretation of discourse categories. Cartography for a crash-proof syntax
No full textIn the cartographic approach to the left periphery,
functional heads are assumed to be endowed with
features providing transparent instructions for interface
interpretation. A direct link between syntax and the
semantic-pragmatic level is therefore maintained. This
assumption, however, may be challenged by the
Inclusiveness Condition: can discourse-related notions
be encoded in the grammar as formal features? This
paper is intended to provide a positive answer to this
question, based on data from typologically different
languages. The relevant discussion will also show the
advantages of a cartographic analysis to explain
language as an “optimal system” in a crash-proof
syntax perspective
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Numerical taxonomy applied to Upper Triassic Megalodontidae: first attempts on the genera Neomegalodon and Triadomegalodon
Full text linkDispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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