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'Coffee is not coffee at twelve o'clock at night': Exploring the motivations for speaking indirectly
(2016-06-30)This thesis presents a detailed theoretical and empirical discussion of indirect speech acts with a focus on off-record indirectness (ORI), a linguistic strategy through which a speaker deliberately conveys to the addressee ... -
The effect of acute physical activity on memory for vocabulary and linguistic rule learning
(2019-10-26)The purpose of this project was to observe the effect of a short bout of physical activity (PA) on the encoding and consolidation of linguistic information. In two sets of experiments, participants engaged in 20 to 30 ... -
Where are you talking about? Advances and Challenges of Geographic Analysis of Text with Application to Disease Monitoring
(2019-10-11)The Natural Language Processing task we focus on in this thesis is Geoparsing. Geoparsing is the process of extraction and grounding of toponyms (place names). Consider this sentence: "The victims of the Spanish earthquake ...
