Political Image of the Regional Leader on Instagram

The article is devoted to the study of the features of modern political communication in the context of society networkization. The interaction of a regional political leader and society in the sign-symbolic space of political communication is considered.The purpose of this paper is to identify the main image-role semantic constructs, which are reflected in the messages of the head of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation, posted by him on the popular Internet platform for social media Instagram. In addition to establishing the most actively used semantic image-role constructs, the research determines the degree of it`s popularity and the level of it`s approval among the audience of this Internet platform.The qualitative and quantitative type of content analysis was chosen as the main applied research method. In addition to it, a comparative analysis method is used. The conceptual basis of the research is formed by the theory of the information society, as well as the concepts of “network image”, “digitalization policy” and “network identity”.According to the results of the conducted content analysis, it was found that more often than others in the messages posted on the studied official Internet page of the political leader in Instagram, such an image-role construct as an “organizer” is presented. This corresponds to the type of leadership characteristic of this political leader. Among the entries that aroused a relatively increased attention of the audience of the Internet platform, there are messages where a number of image-role constructs are presented, including: “crisis manager”, “organizer”, “team player”, “builder”, “open leader, hearing society” and “business executive”. Such a uniform distribution of the audience’s interest in it`s functional and semantic constructs may be explained by the fact that the head of the region is actively paying attention to each of the designated thematic areas.The highest level of approval from the audience of the Internet platform was received by the messages, which reflected such image-role constructs as “family man” and “leader looking to the future”. Considering the relatively inactive use of the designated semantic constructs by the head of the region in the messages posted on his official Instagram page, it is noted that an increase in the number of messages, which would reflect these image-role constructs, may enhance the leader’s positive image and, as a result, the level of his support in society.

An Encoder-Decoder Network Based FCN Architecture for Semantic Segmentation

In recent years, the convolutional neural network (CNN) has made remarkable achievements in semantic segmentation. The method of semantic segmentation has a desirable application prospect. Nowadays, the methods mostly use an encoder-decoder architecture as a way of generating pixel by pixel segmentation prediction. The encoder is for extracting feature maps and decoder for recovering feature map resolution. An improved semantic segmentation method on the basis of the encoder-decoder architecture is proposed. We can get better segmentation accuracy on several hard classes and reduce the computational complexity significantly. This is possible by modifying the backbone and some refining techniques. Finally, after some processing, the framework has achieved good performance in many datasets. In comparison with the traditional architecture, our architecture does not need additional decoding layer and further reuses the encoder weight, thus reducing the complete quantity of parameters needed for processing. In this paper, a modified focal loss function is also put forward, as a replacement for the cross-entropy function to achieve a better treatment of the imbalance problem of the training data. In addition, more context information is added to the decode module as a way of improving the segmentation results. Experiments prove that the presented method can get better segmentation results. As an integral part of a smart city, multimedia information plays an important role. Semantic segmentation is an important basic technology for building a smart city.

KEBERLAKUAN NOMINA SEBAGAI PREDIKAT DALAM KALIMAT BAHASA INDONESIA: KAJIAN SINTAKSIS (NOUN EXISTENCE AS PREDICATE IN SENTENCE OF INDONESIAN LANGUAGE: A STUDY ON SYNTAX)

In Indonesian language, there are noun that occupy predicate. However, noun are often not considered as predicate by linguists. This day, generaly speaking that verba occupy predicate. Purpose of this research is to describe (1) character of noun, (2) noun that occupy predicate and subject, (3) influence of noun predicate on role argument, (4) presence of copula in sentence with noun as predicate. This type of research is qualitative research. Data analysis method is distribution method. Data analysis techniques is divide direct elements, insert, extend, and reverse. Result of this research is predicate noun has characteristic can be inserted with bukan, dari, yang, menjadi, merupakan, adalah, ialah, dan, hanya, and atau. Noun that occupy predicate are less individual than it subject. Noun occupying predicate also influence role semantic arguments around it. Sentence with noun predicate can be inserted with copula, but sentence is different from sentence with noun predicate. Abstrak Dalam bahasa Indonesia, terdapat nomina yang menduduki predikat. Namun, nomina sering tidak diperhitungkan dalam posisinya sebagai predikat oleh ahli bahasa. Dewasa ini, umum dibicarakan verba yang menduduki sebagai predikat. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan (1) ciri nomina, (2) nomina yang menduduki predikat dan subjek, (3) pengaruh predikat nomina terhadap peran argumen, (4) kehadiran kopula dalam kalimat dengan nomina sebagai predikat. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif. Data dalam penelitian ini adalah kalimat-kalimat yang mengandung predikat yang berkelas kata nomina dalam bahasa Indonesia. Dalam penelitian ini, sumber data primer adalah Solopos dan Kompas. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode simak. Teknik pengumpulan data adalah teknik catat. Metode analisis data adalah metode agih. Teknik analisis data menggunakan teknik bagi unsur langsung, sisip, perluas, dan balik. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah nomina yang menduduki predikat memiliki ciri dapat disisipi dengan bukan, dari, yang, menjadi, merupakan, adalah, ialah, dan, hanya, dan atau. Nomina yang menduduki predikat lebih tidak individual daripada subjeknya. Kemudian, nomina yang menduduki predikat juga mempengaruhi peran semantis argumen di sekitarnya. Kalimat berpredikat nomina dapat disisipi dengan kopula, tetapi kalimat tersebut berbeda dengan kalimat berpredikat nomina.

Personal Experience and Aesthetic Value of Artwork

Traditional Western theoretic culture conceives the results of a manifestation of the world in a human experience as an outcome determined mainly by the apprehended phenomena themselves and their objective properties. Such one-sided approach to reality was properly subjected to criticism by phenomenology, philosophy of language, hermeneutics, and postmodern thought. The above-indicated currents of philosophical thought stress the interpretive nature of the world and its understanding as well as the role semantic experience of a person plays in a process of interpretation. The article has the purpose to show, how both a forenamed approaches to reality – traditional and interpretive – determine the conception of an artwork and its aesthetic value. Traditional mode of thought prompts the investigators to see an artwork as an objective thing or artifact. This approach naturalizes a work of art, neglects its semantic and communicative dimension, remains in the background the meaning of an artwork and its relation to experience of a person involved in the process of its interpretation. Interpretive or semantic approach opens the possibility to elaborate a conception of aesthetic value of artwork based on the following semantic tenets: 1) aesthetic value can be directly ascribed only to aesthetic experience which manifests itself in the process of interpretation of an artwork. The process is, in its nature, interpretive par excellence; 2) manifestation of meanings, which form a semantic content of aesthetic experience, presupposes an active participation of generalized experience of a person taking part in the process of interpretation of artwork; 3) substantial part of personal experience, involved in the process of manifestation of aesthetic values of an artwork, consists of meanings related to value-system of a person; 4) an axiological dimension of aesthetic value of an artwork is related to two conjoint factors: a) emotional response to the meaning, conceived in the process of aesthetic interpretation of artwork; b) the changes in semantic experience (generalized) of a person, especially in his value-experience. The article comprises a more detailed characterization of the principles lying at the ground of traditional and semantic approaches to the problem of aesthetic value of artwork.

Cross-lingual Annotation Projection for Semantic Roles

This article considers the task of automatically inducing role-semantic annotations in the FrameNet paradigm for new languages. We propose a general framework that is based on annotation projection, phrased as a graph optimization problem. It is relatively inexpensive and has the potential to reduce the human effort involved in creating role-semantic resources. Within this framework, we present projection models that exploit lexical and syntactic information. We provide an experimental evaluation on an English-German parallel corpus which demonstrates the feasibility of inducing high-precision German semantic role annotation both for manually and automatically annotated English data.

A Tall Tale: In Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism

In Insensitive Semantics (2005), we argue for two theses: Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism. In this paper, we outline our defense against two objections often raised against Semantic Minimalism. We begin with five stage-setting sections. These lead to the first objection, viz., that it might follow from our view that comparative adjectives are context insensitive. We defend our view against that objection (not, as you might expect, by denying that implication, but by endorsing it). Having done so, we address a second objection, viz., that Semantic Minimalism makes it difficult to see what role semantic content plays in communicative exchanges. We respond and end with a reversal, i.e., we argue that even though the second objection fails against us, it works against those who raise the objection. In particular, we show that our critics, in particular, Carston (2002) and Recanati (2004), end up with a notion of communicated content that fails various tests for psychological reality.