Arts: Conference Contributions: Recent submissions
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The Don Banks Music Box to The Putney: The genesis and development of the VCS3 synthesiser.
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)This article traces the development of the EMS VCS3 synthesiser from the inception of its precursor, the Don Banks Music Box, through its prototype to its commercial release. The nature of the design team and their technical ... -
Democratic Belief, Cognitive Mobilization and Political Participation in Taiwan
(2017)Like many democratic and developing countries, Taiwan has faced declining turnout. For example, the turnout rate of the latest presidential election is 66.27 percent, which is lower than that four year ago by 8 percent. ... -
What Metaphor Identification Systems Can Tell Us About Metaphor-in-Language
(2013)This paper evaluates four metaphor identification systems on the 200,000 word VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus, comparing results by genre and by sub-class of metaphor. The paper then compares the rate of agreement between ... -
Multi-Dimensional Abstractness in Cross-Domain Mappings
(2014)Metaphor is a cognitive process that shapes abstract target concepts by mapping them to concrete source concepts. Thus, many computational approaches to metaphor make reference, directly or indirectly, to the abstractness ... -
Modeling the Complexity and Descriptive Adequacy of Construction Grammars
(2018)This paper uses the Minimum Description Length paradigm to model the complexity of CxGs (operationalized as the encoding size of a grammar) alongside their descriptive adequacy (operationalized as the encoding size of a ... -
Language-Independent Ensemble Approaches to Metaphor Identification
(2014)True natural language understanding requires the ability to identify and understand metaphorical utterances, which are ubiquitous in human communication of all kinds. At present, however, even the problem of identifying ... -
Measuring Metaphoricity
(2014)This paper presents the first computationally-derived scalar measurement of metaphoricity. Each input sentence is given a value between 0 and 1 which represents how metaphoric that sentence is. This measure achieves a ... -
Frequency vs. Association for Constraint Selection in Usage-Based Construction Grammar
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019)A usage-based Construction Grammar (CxG) posits that slot-constraints generalize from common exemplar constructions. But what is the best model of constraint generalization? This paper evaluates competing frequencybased ... -
Ennius and the Annales in Cicero's Philosophical works: Reflections on Cicero's citational strategies
(2019)Citation and quotation are two distinct and yet related strategies used to reproduce or invoke words previously spoken or written by someone else in order to strengthen an argument or a specific point. Citation, properly ... -
From darkness comes light: music as a reflection of the lived experience of young musicians following the Christchurch earthquakes
(2017)Context of the project: On 4 September 2010, 22 February 2011, 13 June 2011 and 23 December 2011 Christchurch suffered major earthquakes and aftershocks (well over 10,000) that have left the central city in ruins and many ... -
Cross-linguistic transfer effects in bilingual English-Māori voice quality and pitch
(2017)Introduction • Previous research has suggested that the two main ethnolects of New Zealand English - Pākehā English (standard European variety) and Māori English - differ in pitch and voice quality: − Māori English has ... -
EUropanisation of the Balkans: a near future or ‘mission impossible’?
(2018)This paper addresses the problems of the current process of and prospects for further post-communist ‘Europeanisation’ (primarily understood as a process of incorporation of the core norms and principles upon which the ... -
Ending Taiwan’s Economic Stagnation: The Implications of the Elections of Presidents Tsai and Trump
(2017)Taiwan’s economy has slowed down significantly since the late 1990s (Clark and Tan, 2012; Copper, 2016; Lin, 2016). Not surprisingly, growing economic stagnation has become a salient political issue in the early 2000s ... -
Do You, Don't You, Want my Trauma?: Some Issues Facing Post-Disaster Memory Projects
(2015)The last few years have seen the emergence of a range of Digital Humanities projects concerned with archiving material related to traumatic events and disasters. The 9/11 Digital Archive, The Hurricane Memory Bank and the ... -
A United or Partly United Europe? Will the Western Balkans and Turkey Ever Join?
(2012)While political leaders and the people of Croatia are still celebrating the EU‘s decision to accept this post-Yugoslav state as its 28th member in 2013, the EU accession of other current officially recognised candidates ...