Department of Philosophy,Lingustics and Theory of Science / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori: Recent submissions
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SOCIOEKONOMISK STATUS OCH EPIGENETIK ETT OMAKA PAR ELLER EN OSKILJBAR DUO?
(2020-09-11)SAMMANDRAG SOCIOEKONOMISK STATUS OCH EPIGENETIK - Ett omaka par eller en oskiljbar duo? ÄMNE: Liberal Arts INSTITUTION: Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori, Göteborgs universitet, Maj 2020 HANDLEDARE: ... -
An Experimental Evaluation of Grounding Strategies for Conversational Agents
(2020-09-11)With the continuous development of technology, dialogue system’s technology penetrates into human’s life. Grounding also becomes more and more important for dialogue systems. It is important to choose a suitable grounding ... -
NON-EVIL MURDER? A study of different moral judgements in Agatha Christie's Appointment with Death and Evil under the Sun.
(2020-09-04)Denna uppsats utforskar konceptet ondskefullt agerande i två Agatha Christie-romaner med detektiven Hercule Poirot, Appointment with Death (1938) och Evil under the Sun (1941) (svenska titlar Döden till mötes respektive ... -
On the Reduction of Quantum Teams
(2020-09-04)In this thesis, a reduction procedure on quantum teams is defined. Physically, this reduction procedure can be seen as an attempt to describe the measurement results of a certain (quantum mechanics) experiment purely ... -
Determining linguistic predictor for the classification of subjective cognitive impairment and mild cognitive impairment using machine learning
(2020-09-01)Introduction Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a neurological condition characterized by cognitive decline greater than expected for an individual's age and education level. Subjective Cognitive Impairment (SCI) is a ... -
CORPUS EXPLORATION AND DIALOGUE SYSTEM DESIGN FOR A VIRTUAL LIBRARIAN
(2020-09-01)This thesis is a part of the virtual librarian project for the City Library Gothenburg (Stadsbibliotek Göteborg), which is a public city library. The objective of the project is to develop a virtual librarian using machine ... -
Kille: Learning Objects and Spatial Relations with Kinect
(2020-08-26)In order for humans to have meaningful interactions with a robotic system, this system should be capable of grounding semantic representations to their real-world representations, learn spatial relationships and communicate ... -
CONSEQUENTIAL INTENTIONALISM. AN EVALUATION OF THE APPLICABILITY OF PETER ABELARD’S ETHICS.
(2020-07-13)In his Ethica, Peter Abelard argues for consent as the only criterion for moral evaluation. This argument of Abelard seems to present his ethical system as subjective and therefore cannot be put into practice. This paper ... -
ON AQUINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF MIND. AQUINAS’ CONCEPTION OF THE BODY-SOUL RELATIONSHIP AND ITS RELATION TO SOME CONTEMPORARY THEORIES IN PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.
(2020-07-03)In his question 75 and 76 of the Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas argues that the human soul is related to the body as its form such that even after death, the soul has a natural inclination and affinity to the body. This ... -
THE ROLE OF CIRCUMSTANCES IN HUMAN ACTION ACCORDING TO AQUINAS The Hierarchy of Circumstances in Moral Evaluation
(2020-07-03)Circumstances are the attendant properties of human action. Aquinas asserts that the end and object are the main factors in determining the moral value of human action, however, he also states that circumstances can play ... -
Polisens medialiserade arena - En studie om strategisk kommunikation och identitetsskapande på Instagram
(2020-06-23)Syfte: Det centrala syftet med denna magisteruppsats är att utöka kunskapen om hur polisen porträtterar sig själva och sin yrkesidentitet på Instagram, samt att belysa hur porträtteringen fungerar som strategisk ... -
Slurs and Meaning
(2020-05-25)This essay examines the semantics-pragmatics divide in some recent articles about slurs. The semantic accounts suggesting a hybrid semantic meaning as well as the accounts that wish to include the notion of linguistic ... -
The ungraded life is not worth living? Criteria compliance in the philosophy classroom
(2020-02-27)Following the educational reforms of the 1990s and the focus on measurable results and achievement documentation, teachers and learners in Sweden have increasingly come to embrace an instrumentalist view on knowledge at ... -
IMPLEMENTING PERCEPTUAL SEMANTICS IN TYPE THEORY WITH RECORDS (TTR)
(2019-11-18)Type Theory with Records (TTR) provides accounts of a wide range of semantic and linguistic phenomena in a single framework. This work proposes a TTR model of perception and language. Utilizing PyTTR, a Python implementation ... -
Hur kommunicerar Försäkringskassan tillit och förtroende i tider av misstroende för myndigheten? En kritisk diskursanalys av debattartiklar publicerade i svensk nyhetsmedia
(2019-11-11)Syfte: I denna uppsats studeras hur Försäkringskassan, vars ansvarsområde är att förvalta det offentliga trygghetssystemet, väljer att kommunicera trygghet, tillit och förtroende i sina uttalanden i tider av misstroende. ... -
Grounding of names in directory enquiries dialogue. A corpus study of listener feedback behaviour
(2019-10-16)This paper presents a new corpus of dialogues in the domain of directory enquiries. We describe its collection and annotation process and then analyse feedback strategies employed by the dialogue participants focusing ... -
Fast visual grounding in interaction
(2019-10-04)A big challenge for the development situated agents is that they need to be capable of grounding real objects of their enviroment to representations with semantic meaning, so they can be comunicated to human agents using ... -
HUR KOMMUNICERAR MYNDIGHETER UNDER KRIS? En retorisk analys av Svenska kraftnäts kriskommunikation vintern 2019
(2019-09-25)Syfte: Att utifrån retoriska perspektiv undersöka Svenska kraftnäts kriskommunikation under januari-februari 2019. Teori: De retoriska appellformerna (ethos, logos, pathos) och imagereparerande strategier. Metod: Kvalitativ ... -
ALLMÄNLÄKARNAS UPPLEVELSER AV NATIONELLT KLINISKT KUNSKAPSSTÖD En studie om tjänstekvalitet, kundtillfredsställelse och kundlojalitet
(2019-09-06)Syftet med uppsatsen var att undersöka hur allmänläkare upplever rekommendationerna som erbjuds av Nationellt kliniskt kunskapsstöd (NKK), med avseende på tjänstekvalitet, otillfredsställelse och kundlojalitet. Syftet var ... -
ÖKAT DELTAGANDE, MER DEMOKRATI En undersökning av hur demokrati kommuniceras av Göteborgs Stad och dess målgrupp
(2019-09-06)Uppsatsen undersöker demokratiperspektivet i Göteborgs Stads demokratikommunikation och dess ideologiska försanthållanden i relation till medborgarnas syn på demokrati. En kritisk diskursanalys appliceras på stadens ...