Surprisingly, linguists have actually relied on at least three of these four scenarios for defining the notion of salience (see also Bowman et al., 2013, for a psychological perspective). Scenario (1) lies at the heart of Giora’s idea of salience as what is “foremost on one’s mind [...] stored and coded in the mental lexicon” (Giora, 2003, p. 15). Scenario (2) accords with Geeraerts’ view of on...

Transaction frauds impose serious threats onto e-commerce. We present CLUE, a novel deep-learning-based transaction fraud detection system we design and deploy at JD.com, one of the largest ecommerce platforms in China with over 220 million active users. CLUE captures detailed information on users’ click actions using neural-network based embedding, and models sequences of such clicks using the...

We analyze recycling decisions for bioplastics using a natural field experiment. Bioplastics have environmental benefits – such as reduced energy use in production and enhanced biodegredation compared to conventional plastics. Recycling that are not consistent with government guidelines, however, may cause rebound effect. For instance when biobased plastics contaminate organic waste streams, or...

This study moves from the arguments on one side that language input (specifically adult language) has a significant part and shaping function in communication process with children, other this is exclusively shaped by co-textual contextual cues. With aim mind, study, first, related literature child language, non-literal comprehension, effect of context comprehension were overviewed then data co...