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Background: Noma is a severe orofacial disease with high mortality and morbidity. Although severity scales exist, they fail to fully capture the extent of damage caused by the disease.
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Research Centre Healthy and Sustainable Living, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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Theoretical foundations and limits of word embeddings: What types of meaning can they capture?
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Department of Sociology, Purdue University.
Measuring meaning is a central problem in cultural sociology and word embeddings may offer powerful new tools to do so. But like any tool, they build on and exert theoretical assumptions. In this paper I theorize the ways in which word embeddings model three core premises of a structural linguistic theory of meaning: that meaning is coherent, relational, and may be analyzed as a static system.
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