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Terms for Talking About Information and Communication
Information 2012, 3, 351-371; doi:10.3390/info3030351 OPEN ACCESS information ISSN 2078-2489 www.mdpi.com/journal/information Concept Paper Terms for Talking about Information and Communication Corey Anton School of Communications, Grand Valley State University, 210 Lake Superior Hall, Allendale, MI 49401, USA; E-Mail: [email protected]; Tel.: +1-616-331-3668; Fax: +1-616-331-2700 Received: 4 June 2012; in revised form: 17 August 2012 / Accepted: 20 August 2012 / Published: 27 August 2012 Abstract: This paper offers terms for talking about information and how it relates to both matter-energy and communication, by: (1) Identifying three different levels of signs: Index, based in contiguity, icon, based in similarity, and symbol, based in convention; (2) examining three kinds of coding: Analogic differences, which deal with positive quantities having contiguous and continuous values, and digital distinctions, which include “either/or functions”, discrete values, and capacities for negation, decontextualization, and abstract concept-transfer, and finally, iconic coding, which incorporates both analogic differences and digital distinctions; and (3) differentiating between “information theoretic” orientations (which deal with data, what is “given as meaningful” according to selections and combinations within “contexts of choice”) and “communication theoretic” ones (which deal with capta, what is “taken as meaningful” according to various “choices of context”). Finally, a brief envoi reflects on how information broadly construed relates to probability and entropy. Keywords: sign; index; icon; symbol; coding; context; information; communication “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. -
Redundancy As a Phonological Feature in the English Language
International Journal of English Language and Communication Studies Vol. 4 No.2 2018 ISSN 2545 - 5702 www.iiardpub.org Redundancy as a Phonological Feature in the English Language Shehu Muhammed Department of GSE School of Education Aminu Saleh College of Education, Azare, Bauchi State Nigeria [email protected] Msuega Ahar Department of Languages and Linguistics, Benue State University, Makurdi [email protected] Daniel Benjamin Saanyol Department of Psychology, School of Education, Aminu Saleh College of Education Azare, Bauchi State [email protected] Abstract The study critically examines redundancy as a phonological feature in the English Language. It establishes that it is an integral aspect of the English phonology. The study adopts a survey method using structuralist approach. The study was conducted among the speakers of English language in Benue State University, Makurdi. The sample size of about 60 respondents were taken from a selected number of departments: Languages and linguistics, Mass communication, Religion and Philosophy, Theatre Arts, English language and the Political Science undergraduate students who ranged from 16 - 35 years. The study used the following instruments: oral interviews, personal observations and discussion group to obtain data for the study. The findings reveal that redundancy must be understood and given space in the daily practice of the language. This will enhance effective communication and understanding among speaker of English Language. In fact, failure in speaking the language with a consistent agreement to the entire phonological system (including the redundant features) will sometimes amount to communication breakdown and misinterpretation of the meaning. A close observation has shown that many speakers of English language lack a good knowledge of its phonological system. -
How to Understand Conjugation in Japanese, Words That Form the Predicate, Such As Verbs and Adjectives, Change Form According to Their Meaning and Function
How to Understand Conjugation In Japanese, words that form the predicate, such as verbs and adjectives, change form according to their meaning and function. This change of word form is called conjugation, and words that change their forms are called conjugational words. Yōgen (用言: roughly verbs and adjectives) Complex Japanese predicates can be divided into several “words” when one looks at formal characteristics such as accent and breathing. (Here, a “word” is almost equivalent to an accent unit, or the smallest a unit governed by breathing pauses, and is larger than the word described in school grammar.) That is, the Japanese predicate does not consist of one word; rather it is a complex of yōgen, made up of a series of words. Each of the “words” that make up the predicate (i.e., yōgen complex) undergoes word form change, and words in a similar category may be strung together in a row. Therefore, altogether there is quite a wide variety of forms of predicates. Some people do not divide the yōgen complex into words, however. They treat the predicate as a single entity, and call the entire variety of changes conjugation. Some try to integrate all variety of such word form change into a single chart. This chart not only tends to be enormous in size, but also each word shows the same inflection cyclically. There is much redundancy in this approach. When dealing with Japanese, it will be much simpler if one separates the description of the order in which the components of the predicate (yōgen complex) appear and the description of the word form change of individual words. -
A Neurolinguistic Approach to Linguistic Redundancy
A NEUROLINGUISTIC APPROACH TO LINGUISTIC REDUNDANCY Assistant Prof. Dr. Laura Carmen CU ŢITARU, “Alexandru I.Cuza” University of Ia şi Abstract This paper proposes a neurolinguistic explanation for the overlap of redundancy as conceptualized by information theory and redundancy as understood in literary theory. Keywords : information theory, language recognition, redundancy 1. The Concept of Redundancy In July and October 1948, Claude Shannon, an engineer working at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, published two papers in the Bell System Technical Journal , in which he formulated a set of theorems concerning quick and accurate transmission of messages from one place to another. Although intended primarily for radio and telephone engineers, the generalizations Shannon made established laws that proved to govern all kinds of messages, no matter the medium. He practically established information theory, and its tenets can be used in order to investigate any system in which a message/information is sent from a source to a receiver. One essential condition for any successful communication is that the message should be received and understood by the receiver. But there is a natural occurrence with communication systems in general to be exposed to interferences, which, in the jargon of this field, are called noise . Anything that corrupts the integrity of a message (like image distortions on a TV screen, static in a radio set, gaps or smudged lines in a written text) qualifies as noise. During World War II, Shannon worked on secret codes, and on ways to separate information from noise. What he found was to become one of the most important concepts in communications theory: redundancy . -
CLIPP Christiani Lehmanni Inedita, Publicanda, Publicata Pleonasm and Hypercharacterization
CLIPP Christiani Lehmanni inedita, publicanda, publicata titulus Pleonasm and hypercharacterization huius textus situs retis mundialis http://www.uni-erfurt.de/ sprachwissenschaft/personal/lehmann/CL_Publ/ Hypercharacterization.pdf dies manuscripti postremum modificati 23.02.2006 occasio orationis habitae 11. Internationale Morphologietagung Wien, 14.-17.02.2004 volumen publicationem continens Booij, Geert E. & van Marle, Jaap (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 2005. Heidelberg: Springer annus publicationis 2005 paginae 119-154 Pleonasm and hypercharacterization Christian Lehmann University of Erfurt Abstract Hypercharacterization is understood as pleonasm at the level of grammar. A scale of strength of pleonasm is set up by the criteria of entailment, usualness and contrast. Hy- percharacterized constructions in the areas of syntax, inflection and derivation are ana- lyzed by these criteria. The theoretical basis of a satisfactory account is sought in a holis- tic, rather than analytic, approach to linguistic structure, where an operator-operand struc- ture is formed by considering the nature of the result, not of the operand. Data are drawn from German, English and a couple of other languages. The most thorough in a number of more or less sketchy case studies is concerned with German abstract nouns derived in -ierung (section 3.3.1). This process is currently so productive that it is also used to hy- percharacterize nouns that are already marked as nominalizations. 1 1. Introduction Hypercharacterization 2 (German Übercharakterisierung) may be introduced per ostensionem: it is visible in expressions such as those of the second column of T1. T1. Stock examples of hypercharacterization language hypercharacterized basic surplus element German der einzigste ‘the most only’ der einzige ‘the only’ superlative suffix –st Old English children , brethren childer , brether plural suffix –en While it is easy, with the help of such examples, to understand the term and get a feeling for the concept ‘hypercharacterization’, a precise definition is not so easy. -
Leveraging Multimodal Redundancy for Dynamic Learning, with SHACER — a Speech and Handwriting Recognizer
Leveraging Multimodal Redundancy for Dynamic Learning, with SHACER | a Speech and HAndwriting reCognizER Edward C. Kaiser B.A., American History, Reed College, Portland, Oregon (1986) A.S., Software Engineering Technology, Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon (1996) M.S., Computer Science and Engineering, OGI School of Science & Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University (2005) A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the OGI School of Science & Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University in partial ful¯llment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Engineering April 2007 °c Copyright 2007 by Edward C. Kaiser All Rights Reserved ii The dissertation \Leveraging Multimodal Redundancy for Dynamic Learning, with SHACER | a Speech and HAndwriting reCognizER" by Edward C. Kaiser has been examined and approved by the following Examination Committee: Philip R. Cohen Professor Oregon Health & Science University Thesis Research Adviser Randall Davis Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology John-Paul Hosom Assistant Professor Oregon Health & Science University Peter Heeman Assistant Professor Oregon Health & Science University iii Dedication To my wife and daughter. iv Acknowledgements This thesis dissertation in large part owes it existence to the patience, vision and generosity of my advisor, Dr. Phil Cohen. Without his aid it could not have been ¯nished. I would also like to thank Professor Randall Davis for his interest in this work and his time in reviewing and considering it as the external examiner. I am extremely grateful to Peter Heeman and Paul Hosom for their e®orts in participating on my thesis committee. There are many researchers with whom I have worked closely at various stages during my research and to whom I am indebted for sharing their support and their thoughts. -
History 598, Fall 2004
Meeting Time: The seminar will meet Tuesday afternoons, 1:30-4:30, in Dickinson 211 Week I (9/14) Introduction: Jeremy Campbell, Grammatical Man Evelyn Fox Keller, Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology Questions and Themes Secondary Lily E. Kay, "Cybernetics, Information, Life: The Emergence of Scriptural Representations of Heredity", Configurations 5(1997), 23-91 [PU online]; and "Who Wrote the Book of Life? Information and the Transformation of Molecular Biology," Week II (9/21) Science in Context 8 (1995): 609-34. Michael S. Mahoney, "Cybernetics and Information Technology," in Companion to the The Discursive History of Modern Science, ed. R. C. Olby et al., Chap.34 [online] Rupture Karl L. Wildes and Nilo A. Lindgren, A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982, Parts III and IV (cf. treatment of some of the Report: Philipp v. same developments in David Mindell, Between Humans and Machines) Hilgers James Phinney Baxter, Scientists Against Time Supplementary John M.Ellis, Against Deconstruction (Princeton, 1989), Chaps. 2-3 Daniel Chandler, "Semiotics for Beginners" Primary [read for overall structure before digging in to the extent you can] Week III (9/28) Warren S. McCulloch and Walter Pitts, "A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity", Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 5(1943), 115-33; repr. in Machines and Warren S. McCulloch, Embodiments of Mind (MIT, 1965), 19-39, and in Margaret A. Nervous Systems Boden (ed.), The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford, 1990), 22-39. Alan M. Turing, "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to Report: Perrin the Entscheidungsproblem", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, ser. -
Information Theory." Traditions of Systems Theory: Major Figures and Contemporary Developments
1 Do not cite. The published version of this essay is available here: Schweighauser, Philipp. "The Persistence of Information Theory." Traditions of Systems Theory: Major Figures and Contemporary Developments. Ed. Darrell P. Arnold. New York: Routledge, 2014. 21-44. See https://www.routledge.com/Traditions-of-Systems-Theory-Major-Figures-and- Contemporary-Developments/Arnold/p/book/9780415843898 Prof. Dr. Philipp Schweighauser Department of English University of Basel Nadelberg 6 4051 Basel Switzerland Information Theory When Claude E. Shannon published "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" in 1948, he could not foresee what enormous impact his findings would have on a wide variety of fields, including engineering, physics, genetics, cryptology, computer science, statistics, economics, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and aesthetics.1 Indeed, when he learned of the scope of that impact, he was somewhat less than enthusiastic, warning his readers in "The Bandwagon" (1956) that, while "many of the concepts of information theory will prove useful in these other fields, [...] the establishing of such applications is not a trivial matter of translating words to a new domain, but rather the slow tedious process of hypothesis and experimental verification" (Shannon 1956, 3). For the author of this essay as well as my fellow contributors from the humanities and social sciences, Shannon's caveat has special pertinence. This is so because we get our understanding of information theory less from the highly technical "A Mathematical Theory -
Word Construction: Tracing an Optimal Path Through the Lexicon
Word construction: tracing an optimal path through the lexicon Gabriela Caballero (UC San Diego) and Sharon Inkelas (UC Berkeley) Word construction: tracing an optimal path through the lexicon 1. Introduction In this paper we propose a new theory of word formation which blends three components: the “bottom-up” character of lexical-incremental approaches of morphology, the “top-down” or meaning-driven character of inferential-realizational approaches to inflectional morphology, and the competition between word forms that is inherent in Optimality Theory.1 Optimal Construction Morphology (OCM) is a theory of morphology that selects the optimal combination of lexical constructions to best achieve a target meaning. OCM is an incremental theory, in that words are built one layer at a time. In response to a meaning target, the morphological grammar dips into the lexicon, building and assessing morphological constituents incrementally until the word being built optimally matches the target meaning. We apply this new theory to a vexing optimization puzzle confronted by all theories of morphology: why is redundancy in morphology rejected as ungrammatical in some situations (“blocking”), but absolutely required in others (“multiple / extended exponence”)? We show that the presence or absence of redundant layers of morphology follows naturally within OCM, without requiring external stipulations of a kind that have been necessary in other approaches. Our analysis draws on and further develops two notions of morphological strength that have been proposed in the literature: stem type, on a scale from root (weakest) to word (strongest), and exponence strength, which is related to productivity and parsability. 2. The case study: blocking vs. -
Chapter 18: Games As Cybernetic Systems
Chapter 18: Games as Cybernetic Systems Cybernetics enforces consistency. It permits change, but the change must be orderly and abide by the rules.—Jeremy Campbell, Grammatical Man Introducing Cybernetic Systems Cyberspace. Cyberpunk. A Cyborg Manifesto. The term cybernetic has been appropriated by science fiction and technoculture to mean anything associated with computer technology. In point of fact, the field of cybernetics precedes the advent of digital computers. Mathematician Norbert Weiner coined the term "cybernetics" in his 1948 book Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. The word is derived from the Greek word for steersman or navigator, and appropriately enough, cybernetics studies the regulation and control of systems. Cybernetics grew out of systems theory and information theory, and like these fields, cybernetics studies a range of subjects, from mechanical and electrical systems to social and biological systems. In looking at the basic principles of cybernetics, we are touching on a field filled with great debates and a rich history, a field that greatly influenced contemporary ideas about computer technology and society. This chapter can only offer a brief introduction to cybernetics, focusing on the ways dynamic systems change over time and the formal structures that allow these changes to occur. What are the rule structures that monitor change within a game system? How does a game system adjust to change over time? What constitutes feedback within a game? How can positive and negative feedback loops be used in the design of meaningful play? Within this schema on Games as Cybernetic Systems, we bring cybernetics to bear on these important game design questions. -
Citizen Participation and Local Democracy in Europe Joerg Forbrig 5
Learning for Local Democracy A Study of Local Citizen Participation in Europe Joerg Forbrig Editor Copyright © 2011 by the Central and Eastern European Citizens Network The opinions expressed in this book are those of individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the authors‘ affiliations Published by the Central and Eastern European Citizens Network, in partnership with the Combined European Bureau for Social Development All Rights Reserved With the support of the Visegrad Fund With the support of the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency With the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. 2 Table of Contents Introduction: Citizen Participation and Local Democracy in Europe Joerg Forbrig 5 Building Local Communities and Civic Infrastructure in Croatia Mirela Despotović 21 Rebuilding Local Communities and Social Capital in Hungary Ilona Vercseg, Aranka Molnár, Máté Varga and Péter Peták 41 Citizen Education, Municipal Development and Local Democracy in Norway Kirsten Paaby 69 Public Consultations and Participatory Budgeting in Local Policy-Making in Poland Łukasz Prykowski 89 Public Participation Strengthening Processes and Outcomes of Local Decision-Making in Romania Oana Preda 107 Citizen Campaigns in Slovakia: From National Politics to Local Community Participation Kajo Zbořil 129 Contentious Politics and Local Citizen Action in Spain Amparo Rodrigo Mateu 151 Strengthening Local Democracy through Devolution of Power in the United Kingdom Alison Gilchrist 177 Conclusions: Ten Critical Insights for Local Citizen Participation in Europe Joerg Forbrig 203 Bibliography 213 About the Authors 219 3 4 Introduction: Citizen Participation and Local Democracy in Europe Joerg Forbrig Democracy in Europe is in trouble. -
Relationships Between Redundancy, Prosodic Structure and Care of Articulation in Spontaneous Speech
Stochastic Suprasegmentals: Relationships between Redundancy, Prosodic Structure and Care of Articulation in Spontaneous Speech Matthew Peter Aylett V N I E R U S E I T H Y T O H F G E R D I N B U Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Edinburgh 2000 Declaration I hereby declare that I composed this thesis myself, and that the research which is reported herein has been conducted by myself unless otherwise indicated. Matthew P. Aylett Edinburgh February 14, 2000 iii Acknowledgements I’ve really enjoyed working on this PhD in the pleasant and helpful environment of HCRC and the Department of Linguistics. Well, more specifically, when I was stressed out, bored, or burnt out, the working environment was always supportive, pleasant and helpful. People have often felt alone when doing a PhD. I have never felt like that here. I won’t give a long list of the people who have helped me over the years (you probably know who you are) as, like goodbyes, I prefer brevity to an outpouring of emotion (I’d like to save that for the pub if that’s okay). However I must especially thank Alice Turk who worked very hard correcting and advising me on my work. (Yeah I know it was her job but I mean VERY HARD as in especially hard). A special thanks also goes to Ellen Bard, not just for suggestions and help, but also for making sure my job did not conflict with my own research work. Let’s see where it goes from here.