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Measuring and analyzing German and Spanish customer satisfaction of using the iPhone 4S Mobile Cloud service
Get PDFThis paper presents the customer satisfaction analysis for measuring popularity in the Mobile Cloud, which is an emerging area in the Cloud and Big Data Computing. Organizational Sustainability Modeling (OSM) is the proposed method used in this research. The twelve-month of German and Spanish consumer data are used for the analysis to investigate the return and risk status associated with the ratings of customer satisfaction in the iPhone 4S Mobile Cloud services. Results show that there is a decline in the satisfaction ratings in Germany and Spain due to economic downturn and competitions in the market, which support our hypothesis. Key outputs have been explained and they confirm that all analysis and interpretations fulfill the criteria for OSM. The use of statistical and visualization method proposed by OSM can expose unexploited data and allows the stakeholders to understand the status of return and risk of their Cloud strategies easier than the use of other data analysis
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A Norwegian grey zone: Knut Rød, Victor Lind and 'The crucial year, 1942'
No full textThis article uses Primo Levi’s concept of “the grey zone” to explore Knut Rød’s involvement in the transfer of 532 Norwegian Jews from Oslo to Auschwitz in 1942. Rød, the police chief in charge of the operation, was subsequently exonerated of any crime on the grounds that he had simultaneously used his position to help members of Milorg – the Norwegian Resistance. The legal and moral basis of this verdict has been questioned by the artist Victor Lind in a series of artworks, including his “countermonument” The Perpetrator (2005)
Organizing the wastebasket: A semantic system for describing inter-clausal collocation
No full textHalliday & Hasan’s 1976 theory of cohesion in English explains the way meaning continues from one clause to another, connecting sentences through cohesive ties. Responding to this theory, and specifically their system of lexical cohesion, this thesis proposes a semantic system that structures collocational ties under a single semantic paradigm of lexical relations, alongside current paradigms of established relations like hyponymy and synonymy. The semantic system incorporates models from Raskin & Nirenburg’s (2004) Ontological Semantics to investigate the seeming complexity of collocational ties and renders an organized set of choices, translated into SFL metalanguage, for describing lexical relations. This system can be used for a number of applications. I propose a few applications of the theory for writing classroom curriculum, in the tradition of Witte & Faigley (1981) and Stotsky (1983). One classroom application utilizes ontology-making as a pedagogical tool for invention, helping students build domainspecific vocabularies in order to create more possibilities for expansion in the drafting process. The use of these vocabularies would serve as a scaffold for more quality writing, which writing studies experts have argued, is marked by high percentage of collocation (Witte & Faigley 1981; Stotsky 1983)
Victor LaValle
No full textVictor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, four novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling and two novellas, Lucretia and the Kroons and The Ballad of Black Tom. He is also the creator and writer of a comic book Victor LaValle’s DESTROYER. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Whiting Writers’ Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shirley Jackson Award, an American Book Award, and the key to Southeast Queens. He was raised in Queens, New York. He now lives in Washington Heights with his wife and kids. He teaches at Columbia University. The free, public program begins at 6:00 p.m. at Burns Belfry.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_vis/1002/thumbnail.jp
Lexical acquisition and semantic representation of English phrasal verbs in ontological semantics
No full textThe purpose of the present study was to describe and analyze the lexical acquisition and semantic representation of English Phrasal Verbs in Ontological Semantics, a theory of meaning developed by Raskin and Nirenburg and implemented in the Knowledge Base Acquisition Editor, a Natural Language Processing database. Lexical acquisition of phrasal verbs is problematic for two reasons: the discontinuous structure and heterogeneity of meaning structure of phrasal verbs. Although the non-compositionality of meaning is often posed as the main identifying criterion, purely non-compositional phrasal verbs constitute but a part of a much larger class which is frequently marked by varying degrees of metaphoricity. The present study is an account for both structural and semantic diversity of phrasal verbs. In the present study, phrasal verbs were classified into subgroups according to their meaning and then distributed among four basic templates with respect to their composition and permissible orders within the phrasal group. The study suggests a methodology for covering a wide variety of meanings and argues for listing not only non-compositional, but also literal metaphorically extended senses. The main problems encountered during the acquisition were dealing with complex events and sense reduction. These are discussed in case studies as well as in the section on the range of meanings conveyed by individual particles. The results of the acquisition are considered in the light of the sense disambiguation problem in computational semantics and are concluded by a suggestion for a possible revision of the approach to the grammatical category of verbs in general linguistics
Translation and Verbally Expressed Humour
No full textThis chapter provides an overview of issues pertaining to Verbally expressed Humor in translation
The ontology of emotion
No full textNirenburg and Raskin\u27s (2004) ontological semantics has been developed and implemented in applications sporadically for nearly fifteen years. Expansion of the resources (the ontology and the lexicons, for the most part, though some work has been done on the fact database and onomasticon) has focused on single domains. Special domain expansion, on a reasonably detailed level, is a vast research opportunity waiting to be explored---in fact, a new kind of field linguistics in which the acquirer discovers the structure of his world, and that this structure is not always immediately obvious, and then represents natural language meaning in terms of the elements of that structure. It is therefore reasonable, at this point in time, to formulate some kind of a methodology or heuristics for constructing a domain. How does one discover the structure of a domain; how does one gather together all of the necessary ideas, actions, and objects associated with it? This project is to outline heuristics and methodologies for domain acquisition, and to wade into the sticky waters of subjectivity---into the domain of emotions. It is proposed that the ontology of emotion should be based, primarily, on Plutchik\u27s (1994) three-dimensional analysis of emotions (sometimes called the emotional solid. ) The study creates a formal semantic theory of emotion for use in the text processing system, formulate a methodology for domain acquisition, improve the ontology as a whole by using multidisciplinary sources, create the possibility of unifying, comparing, and comprehending all different approaches to the study of emotion on the basis of their implied ontological semantic foundation, and prepare a difficult domain for multiple applications
[Diary Entry for Saturday, April 13, 1940]
No full textThis page is part of a diary by Sir Ellice Victor Elias Sassoon. He wrote that he slept a lot and read a book about the Burma Road for which the author got the idea at his garden party in 1937. He then said he went to bed at 8 and that Edna came in to ask how he was
OneVerse Ache NT Dedication & Celebration: Dr. Victor Gomez
No full textVictor Antonio Gomez celebrates, dedicates, and shares about OneVerse’s translation of New Testament in the language of the Ache people.
Victor Antonio Gomez, Paraguayan, is married to Cristina Flores and has two daughters: Rocio (22) and Jazmin (Taylor ’16). He has a Ph.D. in theology and served as Baptist pastor and professor of several seminaries before becoming a Bible Translator for the Ache people and Director of LETRA Paraguay. Author and editor of several books, he also serves as Wycliffe Global Alliance Bible Translation Coordinator and Sub-director for the Americas
Lexicographic acquisition: A theoretical and computational study in linguistic heuristics
No full textThe purpose of this study is to formulate a set of heuristics (problem solving procedures) for linguistic semantic description. The introduction builds the context of this dissertation by looking at sources for computational lexicography. A survey of heuristic research done in other fields is included in Chapter 2, but a survey of the discipline of linguistics reveals that there has been little research in this area. Chapter 3 features a discussion of this lack of problem solving methodology in semantics and lexicography, attributing it to the perceived unformalizability of meaning. Raskin\u27s (1985) script-based semantic theory is proposed as a foundation for a set of linguistic semantic heuristics (LSHs) Script-based semantic theory describes and represents semantic competence in a formalizable way, and as such, makes a heuristics of meaning possible. An implementation of the LSHs--FrameBuilder--which produces computational semantic frames with native speaker assistance, is detailed in Chapter 4. The various components of the LSHs--linguistic formulation, branching design, semantic theory, world knowledge, and reasoning--are explored in Chapter 5. The second part of the chapter looks closely at a number of assumptions made by the formulation of the LSHs, including the nature of semantic speaker competence, the possibility (or impossibility) of communicating native speaker competence, and the role of the linguist in elicitation of speaker data. Chapter 6 is a study of how the formalism produced by the LSHs, called an inter-lingua, or ILT frame, compares with the semantic descriptions done by Fillmore (1981), Wierzbicka (1985), and Lehrer (1969). A summary of these issues leads to a discussion of common problems in computational lexicography, and while the weaknesses of each formalism can be found to underlie these problems, the strengths of each can also be found to be part of the solution. Computer-assisted lexical acquisition, through the LSHs, is proposed as the other part of the solution
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