Women Making Meaning: New Feminist Directions in Communication

New Directions in Vector Space Models of Meaning

Symbolic approaches have dominated NLP as a means to model syntactic and semantic aspects of natural language. While powerful inferential tools exist for such models, they suffer from an inability to capture correlation between words and to provide a continuous model for word, phrase, and document similarity. Distributed representations are one mechanism to overcome these constraints. This tuto...

Turning signals into meaning--'shared decision making' meets communication theory.

Shared decision making (SDM) is being increasingly challenged for promoting an innovative role model while adhering to an archaic approach to patient-clinician communication, both in clinical practice and the research field. Too often, SDM has been studied at the individual level, which ignores the interpersonal system between patients and physicians. We aimed to encourage debate by reflecting ...

Journalism and Mass Communication: The Making of Meaning

Making meaning online: computer-mediated communication for language learning

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Connectedness and Meaning: New Analytical Directions for Official Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is exploring the use of Semantic Web approach for statistical production from Big Data sources. While Big Data provides new business opportunities for statistical production, there are significant capability challenges facing the ABS. In particular, there is a compelling need for an integrated analytical platform that can facilitate the representation, ...