Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Strasen, Sven

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“…For example, among the longest Wiki2018 sentences are a run‐on quote from Meher Baba, tables of Gaelic Football results, awards in an Australian national music competition won by Lyneham High School in Canberra, and a list of matches played by the English rugby player John Holmes. We therefore removed all sentences from both corpora longer than 42 tokens (Adams, 1979).…”

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Investigating the Extent to which Distributional Semantic Models Capture a Broad Range of Semantic Relations

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Distributional semantic models (DSMs) are a primary method for distilling semantic information from corpora. However, a key question remains: What types of semantic relations among words do DSMs detect? Prior work typically has addressed this question using limited human data that are restricted to semantic similarity and/or general semantic relatedness. We tested eight DSMs that are popular in current cognitive and psycholinguistic research (positive pointwise mutual information; global vectors; and three variations each of Skip‐gram and continuous bag of words (CBOW) using word, context, and mean embeddings) on a theoretically motivated, rich set of semantic relations involving words from multiple syntactic classes and spanning the abstract–concrete continuum (19 sets of ratings). We found that, overall, the DSMs are best at capturing overall semantic similarity and also can capture verb–noun thematic role relations and noun–noun event‐based relations that play important roles in sentence comprehension. Interestingly, Skip‐gram and CBOW performed the best in terms of capturing similarity, whereas GloVe dominated the thematic role and event‐based relations. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our results, make recommendations for users of these models, and demonstrate significant differences in model performance on event‐based relations.

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“…In other words, the next step of the process depends only on its present location (and the random choice to be made in this step) and not on the history of the process. One can imagine that at each location, the rule for where to possibly move is written on a signpost-such as "with probability x go one step north, with probability 1-x jump hundred steps south-also called the 14 For a short discussion on the form, beauty, and creation of Norway, see Adams (1979). 15 A third condition-that this should be carried out in your friend's apartment rather than your own-is of merely aesthetical concern and mathematically irrelevant.…”

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A transformation of Bayesian statistics:Computation, prediction, and rationality

Lenhard

2022

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

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“…En av dem er Douglas Adams (1952. Adams er mest kjent for bokserien The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1 , som siden den kom (først som hørespill på BBC) i 1978, har vaert en hjørnestein i britisk -og dermed internasjonal -humor (Adams, 1979).…”

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Å le eller ikke le: Holdninger til religionshumor i den norske befolkning

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2019

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Do Norwegians think it is okay to laugh at humour that is related to religion? This is the question I explore, based on a representative survey conducted in Norway. In recent years the relationship between religion and humour has been a topic of public discourse, sparked initially in 2005/2006 when the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and the Norwegian weekly Magazinet published cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The publications led to heated debate, riots and demonstrations in different parts of the world. The 2015 attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo brought the topic back into the public eye. The controversy over boundaries for joking about religion is part of a larger debate about freedom of expression and the rights of vulnerable groups such as religious minorities. Given the public debate on the topic, one can assume that many Norwegians have made up their minds about the topic of humour and religion in the public sphere.

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Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Investigating the Extent to which Distributional Semantic Models Capture a Broad Range of Semantic Relations

Investigating the Extent to which Distributional Semantic Models Capture a Broad Range of Semantic Relations

A transformation of Bayesian statistics:Computation, prediction, and rationality

Å le eller ikke le: Holdninger til religionshumor i den norske befolkning

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