The present article shows that all scientific texts included in journals, magazines, and newspapers are vulnerable to the penetration of hedges and boosters.  However, it was found that scientific texts in the three corpora tended to open up the possibilities of alternative voices rather than narrowing them down. The relatively higher frequency of occurrence of hedges in comparison with booster...

In this work we study anti-unification for unranked terms and hedges, permitting context and hedge variables. Hedges are sequences of unranked terms. The anti-unification problem of two hedges s̃ and q̃ is concerned with finding their generalization, a hedge g̃ such that both s̃ and q̃ are substitution instances of g̃. Second-order power is gained by using context variables to generalize vertical dif...

We introduce (fuzzy) Galois connections with hedges. Fuzzy Galois connections are basic structures behind so-called formal concept analysis of data with fuzzy attributes. Introducing hedges to Galois connections means introducing two parameters. The parameters influence the size of the set of all the fixpoints of a Galois connection. In the sense of formal concept analysis, the fixpoints, calle...

the language used by women and men differ in all speech communities. in order to examine some of these variations, the present study aimed to investigate the differences in an informal written discourse. for this purpose, a comparison between men’s and women’s informal language was made regarding length of utterances, questions, intensifiers, and hedges. results revealed that men employed highe...

In the first part, we extend our results from a previous paper on factorization of residuated lattices to residuated lattices with hedges. In the second part, we show how this result can be applied to the problem of factorization of fuzzy concept lattices with hedges. Our approach is that instead of factorizing the original concept lattice with hedges we construct a new data table with fuzzy va...

We enrich concept-forming operators in L-rough Concept Analysis with linguistic hedges which model semantics of logical connectives ‘very’ and ‘slightly’. Using hedges as parameters for the concept-forming operators we are allowed to modify our uncertainty when forming concepts. As a consequence, by selection of these hedges we can control the size of concept lattice.

one tactful strategy in political rhetoric is hedging which is associated with vagueness and innuendos. despite the studies that address hedging in academic discourse and conversation analysis, studies that investigate hedges in relation to political power, face, and politeness are tremendously few. to this aim, four political interviews were selected from cnn and bbc websites on the basis of t...

One tactful strategy in political rhetoric is hedging which is associated with vagueness and innuendos. Despite the studies that address hedging in academic discourse and conversation analysis, studies that investigate hedges in relation to political power, face, and politeness are tremendously few. To this aim, four political interviews were selected from CNN and BBC websites on the basis of t...

BACKGROUND The current study presents the results of a meta-analysis of 39 randomized controlled trials on the efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), including 1,821 patients with mental disorders or somatic health problems. METHODS We searched PsycINFO, MEDLINE and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Information provided by the ACBS (Association of Contextual Be...