scholarly journals Adjectival modification in text meaning representation

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Raskin ◽  
Sergei Nirenburg
Keyword(s):  
Adjectival Modification ◽  
Text Meaning Representation ◽  
Meaning Representation

Studies on free recall of nouns following presentation under adjectival modification.

1969 ◽  
Vol 79 (2, Pt.1) ◽  
pp. 254-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles N. Cofer ◽  
Erwin Segal ◽  
Judith Stein ◽  
Howard Walker
Keyword(s):  
Free Recall ◽  
Adjectival Modification

Music, Landscape, and the Sound of Place

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Grimley
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
British Library ◽  
Musical Meaning ◽  
Final Time ◽  
Walking Tour ◽  
Meaning Representation ◽  
Critical Literature

One of the most poignant scenes in Ken Russell’s 1968 film Delius: Song of Summer evocatively depicts the ailing composer being carried in a wicker chair to the summit of the mountain behind his Norwegian cabin. From here, Delius can gaze one final time across the broad Gudbrandsdal and watch the sun set behind the distant Norwegian fells. Contemplating the centrality of Norway in Delius’s output, however, raises more pressing questions of musical meaning, representation, and our relationship with the natural environment. It also inspires a more complex awareness of landscape and our sense of place, both historical and imagined, as a mode of reception and an interpretative tool for approaching Delius’s music. This essay focuses on one of Delius’s richest but most critically neglected works, The Song of the High Hills for orchestra and wordless chorus, composed in 1911 but not premiered until 1920. Drawing on archival materials held at the British Library and the Grainger Museum, Melbourne, I examine the music’s compositional genesis and critical reception. Conventionally heard (following Thomas Beecham and Eric Fenby) as an imaginary account of a walking tour in the Norwegian mountains, The Song of the High Hills in fact offers a multilayered response to ideas of landscape and nature. Moving beyond pictorial notions of landscape representation, I draw from recent critical literature in cultural geography to account for the music’s sense of place. Hearing The Song of the High Hills from this perspective promotes a keener understanding of our phenomenological engagement with sound and the natural environment, and underscores the parallels between Delius’s work and contemporary developments in continental philosophy, notably the writing of Henri Bergson.

Dense Captioning Using Abstract Meaning Representation

2020 ◽  
pp. 450-465
Author(s):  
Antonio M. S. Almeida Neto ◽  
Helena M. Caseli ◽  
Tiago A. Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Representation

scholarly journals Promoting books and places: A study of adjectival modification in persuasion and description

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Hilkka Yli-Jokipii
Keyword(s):  
High Occurrence ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Adjectival Modification ◽  
Discourse Functions ◽  
Lexical Density ◽  
Qualitative Analyses ◽  
Place Description

This is a study of adjectival modification, that is the use of adjectives and adjectival participles, in the genres of book information and place description. Book information represents a genre with a subtle, covertly persuasive function, while place description is taken to have little or no persuasive force. The study starts out with a quantitative element, establishing lexical densities of the eight texts in the data. This is followed by qualitative analyses of the functions which adjectives have in the genres examined. Answers are sought to these primary questions: 1) What is the role of modifying adjectives in the lexical density of the texts analysed? 2) What discourse functions do these adjectives fulfil in the two genres? The conclusions of the study include: 1) High occurrence of modifying items does not automatically equal nominal style. 2) High occurrence of modifying items is not an automatic sign of high lexical density. 3) The frequent use of modifiers in non-fiction is not limited to persuasion, since adjectives are also frequent in the genre in which the descriptive function is foregrounded.

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