Examples of occurrence
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Adaptive language modelling literature gives examples of how the problem of estimating of probabilities of repeat occurrences can be alleviated.
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As illustrated by the example of the parting of the seas, fairly impressive occurrences can be engineered through this mechanism.
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An object may belong to several class labels, each associated with it by the number of occurrences in the training data set.
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While no instances have been detected for the 20th century, the latest occurrences in the 19th century are preserved in unproductive or nonstandard collocations.
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However, observe that several occurrences of the same subformula receive distinct locations.
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Playful observations of everyday life and discontinuities in logic allow gamblers to translate dreams and other visions and occurrences into ' hunches'.
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Suppose now that in the sequent we have that and denote sets of occurrences of formulas.
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The distributive distributes the event across several participants or several locations, or several occurrences.
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In particular, several occurrences of the same formulas are still distinguished, but the information on their order is lost.
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Of all occurrences of the 31 words, 88% used the most common disambiguation.
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Since this context also occurs in the type schemes for the variables, the correct dictionaries will always be passed at occurrences of the variables.
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Entailment checking is quadratic in the number of variable occurrences (using a forward chaining algorithm), hence by using this test, join can be refined.
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There are many occurrences of an author's name alone in brackets as the only reference to the source.
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Explanations of such occurrences as inattention or neglect can, of course, verge on counterfactual history, with all its potential hazards.
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Applying this equation reduces a list by keeping leftmost occurrences.
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Other co-occurrences of elderly with apparently positive adjectives must also be taken with a grain of salt.
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The more explicitly constrained occurrences of linguistic phenomena can be described at earlier stages of the parsing process.
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Indeed, short words such as articles or prepositions generally have many occurrences in a text.
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One is to verify whether the number of co-occurrences of different species differs from what would be expected by chance alone.
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The value of these generic constants may vary between different occurrences, but it will always be made clear what they depend upon.
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Note that occurrences of holes will be filled by reduction contexts and are not to be confused with redex holes.
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The semantic range of the complements is also indicated in the note block and typical lexical co-occurrences are listed.
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Characteristically, the higher values of do not correspond to the higher values of conditional probabilities of repeat occurrences.
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They are not freak occurrences within the natural order of things, but created by inheritance, training or initiation.
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The selected cutoff corresponds to approximately the top 1 or 2.5% of the unique word occurrences.
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The data of complement-head relation are merged with those established with the partial parser, which are complement-head co-occurrences.
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They understand this in relation to all earthly and heavenly occurrences.
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The sections are correlated graphically, the correlation being based on the lowest and highest occurrences of key species.
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In turn, attention is made operative as the number of textual occurrences of any issue-specific keyword.
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Learning by collocations and co-occurrences is the most addressed method in statistical learning of ontological knowledge.
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All occurrences of mee require f agreement, as shown in (27a\d).
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Note that different occurrences of the placeholder in the same term can match different terms, so there is no need to consider substitutions.
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In both cases there is a condition on the event occurrences.
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Thus, the key to achieving a complete transformation is to control the number of occurrences of factive symbols.
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Second, the analysis is corroborated by repeated regular occurrences in similar contexts, which allows a regular tonal system to be inferred.
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There is some overlap of the two species in the central region, but no occurrences of sympatric populations.
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He did this so that ravens wouldn't be regular occurrences in his traps.
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The marine faunas of both deposits comprise many southern extralimital occurrences.
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However, it is clear that there exist occurrences that cannot be eliminated.
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Under this translation, events are to be thought of as unique occurrences of transitions that bear unique, static causal links to each other.
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The corpus of target contexts consists of 665 verb occurrences of 20 polysemous verbs.
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The number of occurrences in the training corpus is given in parentheses.
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Initially, the children had to produce 16 occurrences of each pseudoword through the oral naming of the pictures.
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Likewise, hesternal-a scarce 2% of the tokens-and prehesternal occurrences combined add up to about 40% in both data sets.
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Contravariant occurrences of the type variable in a generalised binary method can be turned into covariant ones by interpreting methods as graphs instead of functions.
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A term that does not contain occurrences of a (term or type) substitution operator is called a pure term.
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Finally, the double occurrences of and are removed by left and right contractions.
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Intuitively, closed terms stand for agents whose behaviour is completely specified, whereas terms containing occurrences of process variables denote agents with partially specified behaviour.
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The -reductions are also strongly normalizing, because the number of occurrences of diminishes.
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Sequential occurrences turned out to be more frequently observed than co-occurrences, totaling 83 cases out of 419 signboards.
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Owing to the low number of tokens for the 16th through 19th centuries, detailed statistical analysis was not used on these occurrences.
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The complements that appear outside this window are missed, but they are limited to approximately only 1 complement every 200 verb occurrences.
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Much to our surprise, the addition of this information about prior occurrences in the discourse had no significant effect on system performance.
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In the e-rater system, syntactic variety is represented by features that quantify occurrences of clause types.
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Figure 3 shows the percentage of questions having each exact number of answer occurrences.
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The description of complex or atypical occurrences can be deferred to subsequent stages without interfering with phenomena earlier described.
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A list of such occurrences is maintained for reference.
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In general, the pattern of occurrences of the features is maintained when context features are added.
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We have so far given values to the variables, not to their left occurrences!
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Of course, this is old-style syntax, and one must be pedantic about occurrences, especially repetitions of variables on the left.
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We first do case analysis on occurrences of the cut rule with at least one non-principal cut-formula, and then those with two principal cut formulae.
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We investigate which occurrences of higher type quantifiers can be eliminated, and which occurrences cannot be eliminated.
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Thus, rates of -s have been calculated by dividing the number of occurrences by the total number of simple present tokens, as formalized in (21).
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We again produced separate word class lists for unstressed and stressed occurrences.
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Table 5 char ts the occurrences of quand mesme 0même in theatrical works through the centuries with an indication of its grammatical and functional usage.
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All occurrences of each word were therefore identical.
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Furthermore, tertiary glyphs are indexical, signaling the context of the occurrences of text segments.
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Overall, higher-ranked figures were typically wider than figures of lower ranks by a ratio of 3:2 (45.5% of hierarchical occurrences) or 2:1 (17%).
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We coded these occurrences in the data as awareness.
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Further examination of processionals will doubtless reveal more occurrences of this longer version.
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We associate authority with persons, it seems, not with natural facts or occurrences like storms.
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The key problems are that the previous analyses predict impossible stress systems and fail to account for all occurrences of related phonological processes.
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Furthermore, some occurrences of the form can be shown to correspond to intermediate stages on the path (see sentence (37) below).
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The stories that people tell are not chance occurrences.
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We tend to overlook the complexity and heterogeneity of experience, and this makes it seem as if in experience there are unified sensation-like occurrences.
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Examples for such occurrences are provided in (11).
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In this conference the emphasis was on seeking common denominators that may help us to forestall such tragic occurrences in the future.
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We cannot claim, however, that these were always totally unplanned and unexpected occurrences.
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The words were categorized into high-frequency and low-frequency words according to the frequencies of occurrences of words in each grade.
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Chi-square analysis revealed significant associations between contiguous consonants and vowels for eight of the nine possible co-occurrences.
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First, all occurrences of actually and in fact were identi®ed and counted for each corpus.
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The important problem raised by recurrence is not "information" but relationship: deciding when two occurrences belong to the same lineage.
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Because only behavioral occurrences are individuals, only they can be directly measured.
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In more abstract terms, two occurrences belong to the same lineage if they are attributed to the same history of interaction with the environment.
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Of course, for co-occurrences to exist, the original pattern cannot be localist.
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Hominid remains are scarcer, and the archaeological occurrences less clearly related to datable volcanic horizons.
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They are also prominent in investigating potentially dangerous occurrences in the day's routine.
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In addition, we observed that there is a slight increase, although not statistically significant, in occurrences of stroke from 1995 to 1996.
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We believe that at least 71,000 additional strokes were nonhospital strokes, 10% of the total occurrences of stroke.
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Thus, we are able to assess the impact of redundancy and unemployment on a group for whom these were rare if not entirely new occurrences.
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Of the 36 errors, there were 13 occurrences of the substitution error, which is a third of the total.
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However, a variant being lost will conform to the pattern in, with many more occurrences in older informants.
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The person then arranges his/her inner picture in the sand, which then gives physical form to inner conscious and unconscious occurrences.
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Any religious references in archaeological interpretation are actually sporadic and idiosyncratic occurrences rather than a shared idiom.
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Where doorway occurrences in a certain street are high, the integration of buildings with the street is also high.
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The consistent low frequency of the occurrences for some of the domains in the referential category is problematic.
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Unlike chronic stress, traumatic events can be single occurrences that have a profound impact on the individual and his or her development.
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Are there particular types of life events that are associated with occurrences of mood episodes among bipolar individuals?
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In a first step this dataset was postedited and 'cleaned up' so as to contain only true occurrences of noun modifiers.
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In the course of this short email there were three occurrences of seeing as though.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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