Context Out Classifier

Out of Context

Context models and out-of-context objects

Article history: Available online 2 January 2012

Jumping out of context - Jumping out of tone

The study presented here investigates how different degrees of conceptual integration, as predicted by direct and indirect reported speech, effect speakers’ prosodic behaviour in interaction. It makes a threeway distinction between authentic direct, false direct and indirect reported speech and predicts that greater conceptual distance, predicted by authentic direct reported speech, will lead t...

Translation ambiguity in and out of context

We compare translations of single words, made by bilingual speakers in a laboratory setting, with contextualized translation choices of the same items, made by professional translators and extracted from parallel language corpora. The translation choices in both cases show moderate convergence, demonstrating that decontextualized translation probabilities partially reflect bilinguals’ life expe...

The schizophrenic experience: taken out of context?

A currently favored cognitive model of the abnormal behaviors and experiences characteristic of schizophrenia suggests that they may be linked to a disturbance in the effects of context. The present article reviews some of the relevant literature, noting the wide range of experimental paradigms that have been employed. This range of paradigms is both a strength and a potential weakness of the l...