Selecting an appropriate representation for chords is important for encoding pertinent harmonic aspects of the musical surface, and, at the same time, is crucial for building effective computational models for music analysis. This chapter, initially, addresses musicological, perceptual and computational aspects of the harmonic musical surface. Then, two novel general chord representations are p...

Information spreads rapidly across Web sites, Web logs and online forums. This paper describes the research framework of the IDIOM Project (Information Diffusion across Interactive Online Media), which analyzes this process by identifying redundant content elements, mapping them to an ontological knowledge structure, and tracking their temporal and geographic distribution. Linguists define "idi...

In this senior design project, we solve part of the problem of teaching common speech to second language English learners by focusing on idioms. We chose to focus on idioms because their figurative nature make them difficult to understand to second language learners, as their meanings can not be deciphered though a literal translation. Thus in order to understand idioms, the user must have prio...

Idiomatic expressions are important natural parts of all languages and prominent our daily speech. Idioms cannot be interpreted from the word that they formed directly people may not understand meaning. From past literature, it was noted idiom affects Natural Language Processing research like machine translation, semantic analysis, sentiment analysis. Other English, Chinese, Indian idioms recog...

This introduction puts forth a working definition of oceanic kinship as with the ocean and shaped by ocean. It uses notion critical idiom conceptual lens through which we can examine turn’s potential for rethinking forms human nonhuman belonging. Modernity coloniality were spurred sustained mobility. The oceans, waterways material presences, have helped shape modern-day (re-)configurations kins...

The last couple of years, various idioms used in the 15 MLOC C code base of ASML, the world’s biggest lithography machine manufacturer, have been unmasked as crosscutting concerns. However, finding a scalable aspect-based implementation for them did not succeed thusfar, prohibiting sufficient separation of concerns and introducing possibly dangerous programming mistakes. This paper proposes a c...

This paper discusses how a system developed for spatial composition using cases is able to improve design integration and communication. Layouts are built interactively by users rather than automatically generated as has been proposed by others. The design is incrementally parameterized as cases are added and therefore, case adaptation, user interpretation and model activation can occur at any ...

In studies of the cognitive processing of idioms, the role of mental imagery in understanding idioms remains a controversial issue. Cacciari and Glucksberg (1995) conducted an experimental study to investigate whether generating mental images of idioms can facilitate their comprehension. Their results appeared to reject both the possible connection between the literal mental image of an idiom a...

From telecommunications and abstractions of the Internet to interconnections of medical papers to on-line social networks, technology has spawned an explosion of data in the form of large attributed graphs and networks. Visualization often serves as an essential first step in understanding such data, when little is known. Unfortunately, visualizing large graphs presents its own set of problems,...

Idioms and other figuratively used expressions pose considerable problems to natural language processing applications because they are very frequent and often behave idiosyncratically. Consequently, there has been much research on the automatic detection and extraction of idiomatic expressions. Most studies focus on type-based idiom detection, i.e., distinguishing whether a given expression can...