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... compliance, anger, or both, and similarly, anger can be caused by a variety of other acts, such as issuing a threat In Figure 3, both praising and apologizing are examples of acts that can increase ... This approach can be viewed as a form of reactive planning LetterGen can be viewed as having a simple goal (communicate a particular belief to the hearer), forming a plan (finding a set of speech ... of The reason is that too many queries makes the program loses its appeal as a work-saving device A related limitation is that its modelof the speaker's goals is static, rather than dynamic (e.g.,...
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... Japanese: An Autosegmental Theory of Tonology Kaitakusha, Tokyo Kaplan, Ronald and Joan Bresnan (1982) Lexical Functional Grammar: A Formal System for Grammatical Representation in The Mental ... (laugh-and), amaku (sweetly) verbal - adnominal warau (that laughs), amakatta (that was sweet) The syntactic rules define three ways of building signs (3) shows rule A (essentially function application) ... phonetically as the domain of downstep; the precise character of major phrases is a point at issue in this paper The diagram is annotated according to the notation of Pierrehumbert (1980) The pitch accent...
... similarly high rates of tetanus vaccination in low-income countries Dow et al.(1999) report tetanus vaccination rates of the same orders of magnitude for Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe ... holding Panels 2D and 2E show sample means for one environmental variable: long-term annual rainfall and its interactions with cattle and land These variables are used to capture effects of natural ... demographics Focusing on the IV estimates, it can be seen that the birth weight of babies in rural areas is lower than that of urban babies, and that male infants are heavier than female infants.5...
... smaller gaps of SU-2MR chains indicate higher chemical reactivities, facilitating the continuous growth of the chains Hence, the SU-2MR chain may be a more reasonable growth modelof 1D silica ... chains It is proposed to be a more appropriate growth modelof 1D silica nanowires because of their higher energetic and thermal stabilities and chemical reactivity than those of ES-2MR chains ... surfaces of the HOMO and LUMO states of the SU-2MR chain at n = 12, respectively The energy gap is a signature of the chemical reactivity ofa system Compared to the ES-2MR chains, the relatively...
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... Optimization of policy parameters Searching directly for optimal values of α and β for our stochastic reading model is difficult because each evaluation of the model with a particular set of parameters ... 3: Mean number of timesteps taken to read a sentence and (natural) log probability of the true identity of the sentence ‘Accuracy’ for a range of values of α and β Values of α are not labeled, ... strings, AB and BA, and assume that the eyes can only get noisy information about the identity of one character at a time After obtaining a little information about the identity of the first character,...