Search for dissertations about: "Natural Kinds"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 398 swedish dissertations containing the words Natural Kinds.
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1. Home for future Earth lovers : Foundations of nature-connecting habitats for children
Abstract : Modern childhood is increasingly segregated from nature. Yet, children’s nature experiences are first steps for sustainable futures. In this thesis, I research the foundations of habitats that can connect children to nature. I call them nature-connecting habitats. READ MORE
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2. Guiding Sustainability Transitions: Backcasting, Experimentation and Social learning
Abstract : Sustainability challenges including climate change, social injustice, resource depletion and biodiversity loss are becoming increasingly apparent. These challenges can be understood as partly resulting from unsustainable socio-technical systems in society, assumed to require transitions to become sustainable in time. READ MORE
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3. Analysing normative contracts : On the semantic gap between natural and formal languages
Abstract : Normative contracts are documents written in natural language, such as English or Swedish, which describe the permissions, obligations, and prohibitions of two or more parties over a set of actions, including descriptions of the penalties which must be payed when the main norms are violated. We encounter such texts frequently in our daily lives in the form of privacy policies, software licenses, and service agreements. READ MORE
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4. Contracts and Computation — Formal modelling and analysis for normative natural language
Abstract : Whether we are aware of it or not, our digital lives are governed by contracts of various kinds, such as privacy policies, software licenses, service agreements, and regulations. At their essence, normative documents like these dictate the permissions, obligations, and prohibitions of two or more parties entering into an agreement, including the penalties which must be paid when someone breaks the rules. READ MORE
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5. Resources and Applications for Dialectal Arabic: the Case of Levantine
Abstract : This is a thesis about the computational study of Dialectal Arabic (DA). In particular, the thesis studies DA, with a special emphasis on Levantine Arabic, and develops tools and resources for the computational study of Dialectal Arabic Natural Language Processing (DANLP). READ MORE