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On Thursday, a salon dedicated to discussing the importance of good stories and scripts in film was held at the Beijing Intentional Film Festival's Film Market event.
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Taking science fiction as an example, Wu said that during the genre's height there were a number of writers in the US such as Mary Higgins Clark and Isaac Asimov.
"But in China, the only book we talk about over and over again is Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem."
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Audiences in their 20s have been gaining ground in China in recent years. As such, how to write good stories targeting younger audiences in China was also a key point of discussion at the salon.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at two U.S. universities have mapped 1,100 years of metaphoric English language and detected patterns in how English speakers have added figurative word meanings to their vocabulary.
Published in the August issue of the journal Cognitive Psychology Nike Cortez Flyleather Sale , the study demonstrates how humans throughout history have used language that originally described palpable experiences such as "grasping an object" to describe more intangible concepts such as "grasping an idea."
While providing the first large-scale evidence that the creation of new metaphorical word meanings is systematic, the findings in the paper titled "Evolution of word meanings through metaphorical mapping: Systematicity over the past millennium" are expected to inform efforts to design natural language processing systems by helping them understand creativity in human language.
About natural language processing systems such as Siri, an intelligent personal assistant for use with iPhone, Apple Watch and other electronics from Apple Inc., study lead author Yang Xu, a postdoctoral researcher in linguistics and cognitive science at the University of California Nike Cortez Flyknit Sale , Berkeley, noted that "although such systems are capable of understanding many words, they are often tripped up by creative uses of words that go beyond their existing, pre-programmed vocabularies."
Xu and senior author Mahesh Srinivasan, an assistant professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, conducted the study with Barbara Malt Nike Cortez A.L.C. Sale , a psychology professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.
Using the Metaphor Map of English database, the researchers examined more than 5,000 examples from the past millennium in which word meanings from one semantic domain, such as "water," were extended to another semantic domain, such as "mind." The authors called the original semantic domain the "source domain" and the domain that the metaphorical meaning was extended to the "target domain."
More than 1 http://www.cortezshoesonsale.com/ ,400 online participants were recruited to rate semantic domains such as "water" or "mind" according to the degree to which they were related to the external world (light, plants), animate things (humans, animals), or intense emotions (excitement, fear). These ratings were fed into computational models that the researchers had developed to predict which semantic domains had been the sources or targets of metaphorical extension.