We investigate how perceived meaning influences labor supply. In a laboratory setting, we manipulate the perceived meaning of simple, repetitive tasks and find a strong influence on subjects’ labor supply. Despite the fact that the wage and the task are identical across the conditions in each experiment, subjects in the less meaningful conditions exhibit reservation wages that are consistently ...

Models of word meaning, built from a corpus of text, have demonstrated success in emulating human performance on a number of cognitive tasks. Many of these models use geometric representations of words to store semantic associations between words. Often word order information is not captured in these models. The lack of structural information used by these models has been raised as a weakness w...

We investigate how perceived meaning influences labor supply. In a laboratory setting, we manipulate the perceived meaning of simple, repetitive tasks and find a strong influence on subjects’ labor supply. Despite the fact that the wage and the task are identical across the conditions in each experiment, subjects in the less meaningful conditions exhibit reservation wages that are consistently ...

Over the past decades, the importance of the lexicon has increased in both natural language processing (NLP) and linguistic theory. Within NLP, much of the early research focused on isolated ‘toy’ tasks, treating the lexicon as a peripheral component. These days, the focus is on constructing systems suitable for the treatment of large, naturally occurring texts, and therefore rich lexical resou...

The application of machine learning techniques to open problems in different medical research fields appears to be stimulating and fruitful, especially in the last decade. In this paper, a new method for MRI data segmentation is proposed, which aims at improving the support of medical researchers in the context of cancer therapy. In particular, our effort is focused on the processing of raw out...

We present a semantic analysis of the English it-cleft, concentrating on the exhaustive meaning which the cleft introduces. Our analysis has two novel aspects. The first novel aspect concerns the relationship of the it-cleft with focus. Clefts are generally regarded as focus-marking constructions. On the simplest account, the entire pivot of a cleft is taken to be focused. But in fact this is n...

The article presents the results of a theoretical and empirical study meaningfulness life responsibility medical workers. diagnostic procedures used «the test life-meaning orientations» «Multidimensional functional diagnostics (OTV–110) » [2, 10]. As result it was revealed that respondents are distinguished by high level life, perceive their own as productive, focused on achieving goals effecti...

Joint attention skills are an important part of human cultural learning. However, little is known about the emergence and meaning of these skills in early ontogeny. The development of, and relation among, various joint attention skills was assessed. Seventy-two 5 to 10-month-old infants were tested on a variety of joint attention tasks. Intercorrelations among these tasks were sparse, which put...

Despite the extensive research on negotiation of meaning (NoM) using unfocused tasks, to our knowledge no study portrays what extent NoM contributes learners’ language accuracy, grammar, and vocabulary, in particular, a focused task. Therefore, this set out obtain in-depth information about contribution accuracy when learners were assigned engage task discussion. The participants, treated as th...