Feminist thought challenges essentialist and normative categorizations of ‘work’. Therefore, feminism provides a critical lens on ‘working space’ as a theoretical and empirical focus for digital ...geographies. Digital technologies extend and intensify working activity, rendering the boundaries of the workplace emergent. Such emergence heightens the ambivalence of working experience: the possibilities for affirmation and/or negation through work. A digital geography is put forward through feminist theorizations of the ambivalence of intimacy. The emergent properties of working with digital technologies create space through the intimacies of postwork places where bodies and machines feel the possibilities of being ‘at’ work.
This research is aimed at determining the similarities, dissimilarities, and possible difficulties faced by Indonesian and English speaking students as learning negations and also the recommendations ...to TEFL. The descriptive-qualitative method was used. The documentation technique was applied in collecting the data. To analyze the data, the researcher used a descriptive analysis. The results showed that there were six similarities and four dissimilarites between English and Indonesian negations. The six similarities were in rejection or denial with verbs, adjectives, nouns, adverbs, “No” followed by nouns, and incomplete or undone action. The four dissimilarities were in confixation, suffixation, short prohibition and strong objection. The possible difficultes faced by English speaking students was in confixation, while Indonesian students’ was in suffixation and strong objection. The dissimilarities make recommendations to TEFL teachers to design teaching materials of English grammar that enable students understand negations.
In artificial intelligence systems, a question on how to express the uncertainty in knowledge remains an open issue. The negation scheme provides a new perspective to solve this issue. In this paper, ...we study quantum decisions from the negation perspective. Specifically, complex evidence theory (CET) is considered to be effective to express and handle uncertain information in a complex plane. Therefore, we first express CET in the quantum framework of Hilbert space. On this basis, a generalized negation method is proposed for quantum basic belief assignment (QBBA), called QBBA negation. In addition, a QBBA entropy is revisited to study the QBBA negation process to reveal the variation tendency of negation iteration. Meanwhile, the properties of the QBBA negation function are analyzed and discussed along with special cases. Then, several multisource quantum information fusion (MSQIF) algorithms are designed to support decision making. Finally, these MSQIF algorithms are applied in pattern classification to demonstrate their effectiveness. This is the first work to design MSQIF algorithms to support quantum decision making from a new perspective of "negation", which provides promising solutions to knowledge representation, uncertainty measure, and fusion of quantum information.
Probability theory and Dempster–Shafer theory are two germane theories to represent and handle uncertain information. Recent study suggested a transformation to obtain the negation of a probability ...distribution based on the maximum entropy. Correspondingly, determining the negation of a belief structure, however, is still an open issue in Dempster–Shafer theory, which is very important in theoretical research and practical applications. In this paper, a negation transformation for belief structures is proposed based on maximum uncertainty allocation, and several important properties satisfied by the transformation have been studied. The proposed negation transformation is more general and could be totally compatible with existing transformation for probability distributions.
Статья посвящена изучению особенностей вербализации лингвистических категорий отрицания и отрицательной оценки в английском и испанском медиа текстах. Автором изучается функциональный потенциал этих ...категорий, а также случаи их взаимодействия и взаимовлияния в рамках заданного контекста. На примерах использования ряда лексико-грамматических маркеров отрицания в двух языках показаны их возможности в передаче оценочно-экспрессивных коннотаций. Основную базу примеров составили лексические единицы и синтаксические структуры, в семантике которых содержатся явные или скрытые компоненты отрицания, была проанализирована их роль в формировании отрицательной оценочности текста, выделен ряд важных особенностей их функционирования в разных языках.
Pre-training by language modeling has become a popular and successful approach to NLP tasks, but we have yet to understand exactly what linguistic capacities these pre-training processes confer upon ...models. In this paper we introduce a suite of diagnostics drawn from human language experiments, which allow us to ask targeted questions about information used by language models for generating predictions in context. As a case study, we apply these diagnostics to the popular BERT model, finding that it can generally distinguish good from bad completions involving shared category or role reversal, albeit with less sensitivity than humans, and it robustly retrieves noun hypernyms, but it struggles with challenging inference and role-based event prediction— and, in particular, it shows clear insensitivity to the contextual impacts of negation.
The meaning of expressions modified by double negation (e.g., not unhappy or not not interesting) has long been discussed, with views advocating that the two negations must be logically interpreted ...(i.e., not unhappy means happy), and others arguing that the modified expression always yields a weaker version than the unmodified expression. The current study aimed to understand the possible interpretations of double negation experimentally. We used a novel range-marking task, allowing (Hebrew-speaking) participants to mark not only the location of a certain expression on the scale, but also the size it occupies. We collected measures of the range sizes, their location, as well as the inclusion of the edge of the scale. Doubly-negated adjectives were compared to unmodified adjectives and singly-negated adjectives, and adjectives modified by hedges, considering their mitigation effect. We were able to provide the first empirical evidence that double negation can be interpreted both logically and pragmatically. Additionally, we showed dissimilarities between double negations and hedges, suggesting that doubly-negated expressions present a stronger mitigation effect than hedges.
•Double negation has logical and enriched interpretations.•A novel range-marking task allowed testing for the range of potential meanings.•1st Empirical evidence for multifunctionality of double negation.•Different mitigation effects for double negation and hedges.•Context may affect the range of interpretation for double negation.
Double Negation as Minimal Negation Niki, Satoru
Journal of logic, language, and information,
12/2023, Letnik:
32, Številka:
5
Journal Article
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N. Kamide introduced a pair of classical and constructive logics, each with a peculiar type of negation: its double negation behaves as classical and intuitionistic negation, respectively. A ...consequence of this is that the systems prove contradictions but are non-trivial. The present paper aims at giving insights into this phenomenon by investigating subsystems of Kamide’s logics, with a focus on a system in which the double negation behaves as the negation of minimal logic. We establish the negation inconsistency of the system and embeddability of contradictions from other systems. In addition, we attempt at an informational interpretation of the negation using the dimathematical framework of H. Wansing.
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