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Geospatial Semantic Web
This book covers key issues related to Geospatial Semantic Web, including geospatial web services for spatial data interoperability; geospatial ontology for semantic interoperability; ontology creation, sharing, and integration; querying knowledge and information from heterogeneous data source; interfaces for Geospatial Semantic Web, VGI (Volunteered Geographic Information) and Geospatial Seman…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-17800-4
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- VII, 194
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- -
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- 401.43 ZHA g
Bayesian Natural Language Semantics and Pragmatics
The contributions in this volume focus on the Bayesian interpretation of natural languages, which is widely used in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computational linguistics. This is the first volume to take up topics in Bayesian Natural Language Interpretation and make proposals based on information theory, probability theory, and related fields. The methodologies offe…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-17064-0
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- XI, 246
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- Language, Cognition, and Mind
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- 401.44
Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Co…
Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-colonial India. She argues that rather than disrupting the rise and spread of all-India nationalism, regional linguistic nationalism enabled and deepened the reach of na…
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- 9781108591263
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- -
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- 491.4 MIS l
Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics
The first international volume on the topic of biosemiotics and linguistics. It aims to establish a new relationship between linguistics and biology as based on shared semiotic foundation.
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-20663-9
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- VI, 295
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- Biosemiotics
- Call Number
- 401.41
Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure
This book provides a detailed study of Icelandic argument structure alternations within a syntactic theory of argument structure. Building on recent theorizing within the Minimalist Program and Distributed Morphology, the author proposes that much of what is traditionally attributed to syntax should be relegated to the interfaces, and adapts the late insertion theory of morphology to semantics.…
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- 978-3-319-09137-2
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- XXI, 316
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- Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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- 415 WOO
Language, Nation, Race : Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a “national language” (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese languag…
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- 0520381726
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- -
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- 400 UED l
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing : A Linguistic Approach
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’ instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic times. …
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- 9780000000845
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- 411 AST e
Identity and Theatre Translation in Hong Kong
In this book, Shelby Chan examines the relationship between theatre translation and identity construction against the sociocultural background that has led to the popularity of translated theatre in Hong Kong. A statistical analysis of the development of translated theatre is presented, establishing a correlation between its popularity and major socio-political trends. When the idea of home, o…
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- 1
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- 978-3-662-45540-1
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- XI, 231
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- New Frontiers in Translation Studies
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- 400 CHA i
Teaching Translation from Spanish to English : Worlds Beyond Words
While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view. In her innovative book, she demonstrates how teachers can guide their students by showing them how insights from communication theory, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and semiotics can illuminate the translation process. Using Spanish t…
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- 9780776603995
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- -
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- Didactics of Translation
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- 400 BEE t
Deformation and Failure Mechanism of Excavation in Clay Subjected to Hydrauli…
This book presents the latest experimental and numerical analysis work in the field of ground deformation and base instability of deep excavations in soft clay subjected to hydraulic uplift. The authors? latest research findings, based on dimensional analyses, well-instrumented full-scale field tests, systematic coupled-consolidation finite element analyses and centrifuge tests are reported. Th…
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- 1
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- 9783662465073
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- XIV, 156
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- Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China
- Call Number
- 413
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