Reinforcement of verbal behavior by evaluative meaning words

Evaluative Meaning and Cohesion: The Structuring Function of Evaluative Meaning in Scientific Writing

Words: Evaluative, Emotional, Colourful, Musical!

of the talk Beyond literal meaning, words have associations with sentiment, emotion, colour, and even music. Identifying such associations is of substantial benefit for information visualization, data sonification, and sentiment analysis, which in turn have applications in commerce, education, art, and health. I will present methods to generate highcoverage resources that capture such associati...

Evaluative judgments are based on evaluative information: Evidence against meaning change in evaluative context effects.

Trait adjectives commonly employed in person perception studies have both evaluative and denotative meanings. Evaluative ratings of single traits shift with variations in the context of other traits ascribed to the stimulus person; the extent to which denotative changes underlie these evaluative context effects has been a theoretical controversy. In the first experiment, it was shown that conte...

Evoking Meaning by Choosing the Right Words

Choosing the right word is difficult. One reason is that the context affects the meaning expressed by a word in complex ways. In particular, when a word is used in a context that is not normal for the word, it may evoke a special meaning. This paper presents a lexical choice process that chooses the word from a set of near-synonyms that best produces the desired effects in the given context. It...

Autonomous Vehicle Steering Based on Evaluative Feedback by Reinforcement Learning

Abstract. Steering an autonomous vehicle requires the permanent adaptation of behavior in relation to the various situations the vehicle is in. This paper describes a research which implements such adaptation and optimization based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) which in detail purely learns from evaluative feedback in contrast to instructive feedback. Convergence of the learning process has be...