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Stories and Narratives as a Unit for Cognitive Computational Linguistic Study
The term “narrative psychology” was introduced by psychologist Theodor Sarbin (1911–2005) in the mid-1980s. Sarbin was a pioneer in a psychological theory known as role theory, which examines behaviour and its social acceptability based…
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Can we use verb tenses to predict the time of the text?
Verbs tenses was the first idea that came into my mind to specify the time of a news article, however, working on multiple sentences level makes huge amount of ambiguity, specially that the articles…
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Smoothing in natural language processing
Laplace smoothing or additive smoothing is a statistical technique to increase the probability of less likely elements by increasing the counts of all the elements in the dataset by one. The application of smoothing…
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Types of language ambiguity in natural language processing
In this article, we present a simplified list of language ambiguity in natural language processing as well as the effects of ambiguity in the processing: Word sense ambiguity: The same noun could have two…
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