Department of Philosophy,Lingustics and Theory of Science / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori: Recent submissions
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On Predicating Is it done non-committally?
(2023-01-24)Two proponents of the Act-Based view on propositions, Hanks and Soames, have taken two different stances on how we should view predication. Soames views it as a non-committal act and Hanks views it as a committal act. Hanks ... -
Neo-Aristotelian naturalism in light of the modal explanatory account
(2023-01-20)Neo-Aristotelian naturalism is a metaethical theory that takes moral virtue to be a form of natural goodness in human beings, comparable to deep roots in oaks. The theory evaluates a particular species' goods and defects ... -
Moraliska intuitioner och normativa teorier: Kan konsekventialismen få stöd av vetenskapen?
(2023-01-20)Peter Singer och Joshua Greene använder neurovetenskap och evolutionspsykologi för att ar- gumentera för att moraliska intuitioner generellt är otillförlitliga vilket innebär att vi inte bör basera moraliska omdömen på ... -
Models, Keys, and Cryptanalysis: Evaluating historical statistical language models in cryptanalysis of homophonic substitution ciphers
(2023-01-19)This thesis presents an empirical study connected to historical cryptography and especially within the framework of the research project DECRYPT. One of the research questions in the DECRYPT project relates to the use of ... -
ATT GÖRA EBP Styrning, stöttning och viljor i framtagandet av ett webbaserat stöd i EBP för socialtjänsten
(2022-12-01)Bakgrund: En ny socialtjänstlag träder i kraft och ställer krav på att verksamheter inom socialtjänsten ska bedrivas utifrån vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet, vilket också är en utav kunskapskällorna inom modellen för en ... -
EVALUATING THE EXTENT OF ETHNIC BIASES IN FINBERT AND EXPLORING DEBIASING TECHNIQUES
(2022-10-07)Language models are becoming increasingly popular. These models can contain social biases about various groups of people in them. The reproduction of biased beliefs can have harmful impacts on the groups they are about. ... -
GO BACK TO /R/CONSPIRACY: AN EXPLORATION OF METHODS FOR THE AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF AFFECTIVE POLARIZATION ON REDDIT
(2022-10-06)Affective polarization – the tendency to hold negative attitudes towards an out-group and biased, positive attitudes towards an in-group – is a hot topic in research and public debate. There are concerns that news media’s ... -
DIALOGUE STRATEGIES FOR VOCABULARY LEARNING User Initiative in Dialogue Systems for Second Language Learning
(2022-10-06)When building efficient dialogue systems, a major challenge is recovering from miscommunication. Analyzing human-human interaction leads to discovering repair strategies that contribute towards conversational systems ... -
The Emperor's Free Will
(2022-08-25)Free will has commonly been used in the philosophical community to justify and ground the concept of moral responsibility. I will attempt to argue that this connection is unjustified. I begin in section 2 by establishing ... -
”DET FINNS JU EN VISS ORO AV ATT MAN FAMLAR I MÖRKER” En analys av ett kommunalt arbetsmarknadsarbete
(2022-08-17)Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka förutsättningarna för att tillämpa evidensbaserad praktik i ett arbetsmarknadspolitiskt sammanhang som karakteriseras av en avsaknad av bindande regler och bristfälligt ... -
ARBETSTERAPEUTERNAS STANDARDISERADE ARBETE INOM EN NY DIAGNOS PÅ ETT AKUTSJUKHUS Motiv och utmaningar vid framtagning av arbetssätt
(2022-08-17)Syfte: Syftet med magisteruppsatsen är att förstå vad standardisering av arbetssätt med postcovidpatienter på ett akutsjukhus kan innebära för arbetsterapeuterna. Teori: I uppsatsen analyseras teoretiska begrepp och ... -
Sense and Sensitivity: Exploring how Neural Machine Translation Systems Handle Slurs
(2022-08-12)The rise of streaming platforms such as Netflix and HBO has brought a surge in audiovisual content to be translated. While the translation industry at large have adopted machine translation (MT) as a tool to meet the ... -
What’s the Name of the Game? Dialogue Game Semantics for Intuitionistic Modal Logic with Strict Implication
(2022-06-27)In this thesis we will develop dialogue game semantics for intuitionistic modal logic with strict implication. We begin by introducing Kripke se- mantics and proof systems for intuitionistic modal logic. Afterwards, we ... -
Proof Theory of Circular Description Logics
(2022-06-23)In [12], Hofmann introduces a sequent calculus for the description logic EL where the TBoxes allow for circular concept definitions. In this thesis, we apply this frame- work to a family of DLs which allow for circular ... -
Forced to Sell or Forced to Give: Assessing whether autonomy-based arguments justify prohibiting paid living organ donation while permitting unpaid living organ donation
(2022-06-23)In the debate on the permissibility of a regulated market in human organs it is usually assumed that autonomy-based arguments that prohibit such a market solely affect the act of selling an organ, while the act of giving ... -
Intellectual Humility: What Does It Mean to Be Intellectually Humble?
(2022-06-22)This paper is an attempt to answer the question: What is intellectual humility? My main focus will be on two different contemporary accounts of intellectual humility – Whitcomb et al.’s Limitations-Owning Account and ... -
LAUGHTER PREDICTION IN TEXT BASED DIALOGUES Predicting Laughter using Transformer-Based Models
(2022-06-20)In this paper we will attempt to predict and assess the performance of predicting laughter using a BERT model (Devlin et al., 2019), and a BERT model finetuned on the Open subtitles dataset with and without considering ... -
THE LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF WIKIPEDIA A multilingual analysis and comparison of the language used in Wikipedia articles
(2022-06-20)Wikipedia is a great source of knowledge, but due to its open-collaboration nature, it presents some limitations. Namely, the uneven distribution of content, the low overlap in topic coverage, the differences in the ... -
MULTI-CLASS GRAMMATICAL ERROR DETECTION Data, Benchmarks and Evaluation Metrics for the First Shared Task on Swedish L2 Data
(2022-06-20)Grammatical Error Detection (GED) is a challenging NLP task that has not received a lot of research attention in the recent years, especially in the Swedish language. However, in the world we live in, where there are ...