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	Agent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agent (grammar), one of the thematic roles: the participant of a situation that carries out an action.
		Agent noun (or nomen agentis), one of the derivatemes (a topic from linguistic morphology)
		Agent, a financial institution acting as the operational intermediary in a syndicated loan between the syndicate banks and the borrower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agent (298 words)

	Event Construal and Case Role Assignment
		A fundamental problem which has prevented the development of a widely-accepted generative case grammar is the lack of a principled basis for determining the semantic content of case roles, and thus for identifying the roles played particular arguments of clauses.
		The generative conception of Case Grammar is regarded in many quarters as discredited on grounds of the apparent difficulty of developing a limited set of semantically-definable categories in terms of which morphosyntactic facts can be systematically explained.
		Agents The characterization of Theme in this approach is probably not controversial, as the Theme role has never been given the sort of elaborate and highly specific definition that notions such as Dative and Agent have.
	www.uoregon.edu /~delancey/papers/bls91.html (5225 words)

	Agent (grammar) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In certain languages, the agent is declined or otherwise marked to indicate its grammatical role.
		In Japanese, for instance, the agent is typically affixed with ga (the hiragana ;が).
		The grammatical agent is often confused with the subject, but these two notions are quite distinct: the former is based explicitly on its relationship to the verb, whereas the latter is based on the flow of information, word order, and importance to the sentence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agent_(grammar) (427 words)

	CAL: Digests: Grammar and Its Teaching: Challenging the Myths
		When the receiver of the action is the theme or topic, when we do not know who the agent is, when we wish to deliberately conceal the identity of the agent, when the agent is obvious and easily derivable from the context, when the agent is redundant, and so on.
		Grammar does operate at the sentence level and governs the syntax or word orders that are permissible in the language.
		Instead of viewing grammar as a static system of arbitrary rules, it should be seen as a rational, dynamic system that is comprised of structures characterized by the three dimensions of form, meaning, and use.
	www.cal.org /resources/digest/larsen01.html (1949 words)

	OWL at Purdue University: Printable Handouts:Active and Passive Voice
		The agent performing the action may appear in a "by the.
		If you want to change a passive-voice sentence to active voice, find the agent in a "by the..." phrase, or consider carefully who or what is performing the action expressed in the verb.
		Passive voice makes sense when the agent performing the action is obvious, unimportant, or unknown or when a writer wishes to postpone mentioning the agent until the last part of the sentence or to avoid mentioning the agent at all.
	owl.english.purdue.edu /handouts/print/grammar/g_actpass.html (919 words)

	Uncork the Power of Microsoft Agent 2.0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Agent version 2.0 is an innovative, royalty-free interface technology that can be included as part of your Web pages or conventional applications.
		Agent is not intended for any specific kind of application; characters can be used as guides, instructors, chat avatars, or even game opponents.
		Finally, Agent provides states to manage the appearance and hiding of the character by coordinating the timing between the playing of the animation and the visibility of the frame.
	www.microsoft.com /mind/0499/agent/agent.asp (3269 words)

	Expression/Induction models of language evolution
		In the history of a language, grammars in the heads of individuals do not give rise directly to grammars in the heads of other individuals; rather, grammars are the basis for an individual's performance, and it is this overt behaviour from which other individuals induce their own mentally represented grammars.
		The utterance produced may be defined by a grammar already possessed by the individual, or be entirely generated by a process of `invention' by random selection from the set of possible utterances, or else be formed partly by existing rules and partly by random invention.
		The agents thus have the facility to represent generalizations over classes of atomic forms (`words') and over classes of strings of atomic forms (`phrases'), on the basis of their distribution in sentences, and of the systematic mapping of such classes to semantic terms.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /~jim/briscoevol.html (14643 words)

	W3C P3 Vocabulary Working Draft
		The data category is a hint to the agent regarding the type or sensitivity of a data element that is unrecognized by the agent.
		All statements made by the user agent or service as part of the negotiation are to be defined by the Protocols and Data Transport Working Group; we expect the results of this working group to closely follow the grammatical model proposed here.
		Requests should only be granted by a user agent if they are consistent with the referenced agreement (for example, if there is an agreement that the user agent will provide only the user's zip code and the user agent requests the user's phone number, the request should be denied).
	www.w3.org /TR/WD-P3P-grammar.html (4156 words)

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		He assumed that each agent tries to communicate meaning to other individuals by using a an initially random sequence of sounds.
		The grammar emerges as parts of the sequence of sounds are substituted by variables X SEESJOHN, where X can assume the value of either PETER or ROBERT.
		Multi-agent simulations conducted by the same authors have also revealed that universality of grammar may be produced by social mechanisms of transmission of features of syntax, rather then genetically transmitted properties of the language module in the brain.
	shum.huji.ac.il /~sorin/report/Lang-Evol-Nowak.doc (394 words)

	Implementation Report Plan: Speech Recognition Grammar Specification
		The Speech Recognition Grammar Specification entered the Candidate Recommendation period on 26th June 2002.
		You are invited to contribute to the assessment of the W3C Speech Recognition Grammar Specification by participating in the Implementation Report process.
		Sufficient reports of implementation experience have been gathered to demonstrate that Grammar processors based on the specification are implementable and have compatible behavior.
	www.w3.org /2002/06/srgs-irp (1261 words)

	Grammar and Its Teaching: Challenging the Myths. ERIC Digest.
		Sometimes it has the preposition "by" before the agent in the predicate: (1) "The bank was robbed by the same gang that hijacked the armored car." That the passive can occur only when the main verb is transitive is also part of its formal description.
		It is a focus construction, which confers a different status on the receiver or recipient of an action than it would receive in the active voice.
		Grammar books will say that sentence (3) is ungrammatical because sentences with existential "there" almost always take an indefinite noun phrase in the predicate.
	www.ericdigests.org /1997-4/grammar.htm (1994 words)

	JOT: Journal of Object Technology - Generic Pipelined Multi-Agents Architecture for Multimedia Multimodal Software ...
		Then, an agent organizes the fragments in a serial sequence according to his grammar knowledge and asks other agents for possible fusion at each step of the serial regrouping.
		These two components are agents that, respectively, check redundancies and time neighborhood of the fragments during their sequential regrouping.
		The action functions of the agent are modeled by the transition activities and constitute the facet E of the agent.
	www.jot.fm /issues/issue_2004_09/article3 (6072 words)

	[No title]
		The second approach has been to train adaptive agents, especially neural networks, to comply with verbal rules, but instead of being told the rule they are subjected to many trials of direct experience to teach them to behave as if they had learned the verbal rule.
		Therefore, this agent model fulfills the core requirement of Skinner's theory to be capable of operant conditioning, though operant conditioning theory is now much more mathematical than when the theory of verbal behavior was first formulated.
		The agent has learned something, but not very much, because in the learning algorithm (as with humans) most of the "credit" for the reinforcer will go to associations with the prompt stimuli and with irrelevant contextual stimuli.
	www.cs.umbc.edu /cikm/iia/submitted/viewing/whutchi.html (5161 words)

	Agent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Agent can mean: Agent (grammar), one of the thematic roles: the participant of a situation that carries out an action.
		An Agent in Commercial Law is a person who is authorised to act on behalf of...
		Escrow Agent once this system is put in place and adopted by all parties involved.
	www.4-investing.com /Agent.html (503 words)

	Realty Times - Agent News and Advice
		An agent told me recently she had lost a client because of a punctuation error.
		So this agent told me that she thought it was ridiculous for some snooty, arrogant, English teacher to turn her down just because of a simple, innocent mistake.
		The making of grammar and spelling errors may not seem like a big deal for many of us, but for some, it is an indication of who we are.
	realtytimes.com /rtnews/rtapages/20011130_words.htm (638 words)

	Contact Center Agent Writing Challenges
		This score is the one the agent actually gets and it may not be a reflection on the other four criteria.
		If an agent's grammar is poor, for example "I would like to let you know that we has many different..." then perhaps that agent shouldn't be writing emails.
		The grammar classes and speech therapy required to fix basic language problems is outside the scope of what most business want to handle.
	www.incoming.com /WebModules/QueueTips/Question.aspx?ID=188 (1370 words)

	Agents :: Programming : Gourt
		In linguistics, Agent (grammar), one of the thematic roles: the participant of a situation that carries out an action.
		Casting Agent, a person who finds jobs for actors, models, and other people in various entertainment businesses.
		A Gentle Introduction to Agents - This is a tutorial on agents with particular emphasis on applications in the telecommunications industry.
	computers.gourt.com /Programming/Agents.html (582 words)

	International Grammar Police Branch Office
		Another wonderful source of poor grammar is in the public school systems' printed materials, even at the state level:
		Our Grammar Police agent opened the report at random and this error jumped off the page, written in large bold print and featured in a text box.
		Grammar at this point is a Scarred Cow.
	www.webspawner.com /users/GrammarPol (1947 words)

	Grammar processing agent does XML, security duty
		Other agents include compression and decompression, character converters from UTF-8 to UTF-16 code, an RSA public-key modular exponentiation agent, a DES/Triple-DES encryption and decryption agent, an SHA-1 hashing agent and a true random-number generator.
		A centralized content-processing controller oversees the agents and buses, the chaining functions between agents, memory control, and off-chip I/O. Tarari has surrounded the agent blocks with control-plane functions, including interfaces to external PCI/PCI-X buses and an internal workflow bus for transferring content among agent processors.
		RegEx security functions are handled by the dual cores at 3.2 Gbits/second, and XML tasks in the grammar processors at 2.5 Gbits/s.
	www.embedded.com /shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=177105235 (357 words)

	Home > Publications > (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		McGrath) a teacher of English grammar at a New England prep school whose upper-class wife, Daisy (Sigourney Weaver) and family have higher ambitions for him.
		There was a grammar crisis in the English speaking world on or about the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
		But where Communism worldwide—if not yet, alas, in Cuba—is now in full retreat where it is not extinguished altogether, the grammar crisis has continued to this day with disastrous and as yet largely unremarked consequences.
	www.eppc.org /publications/pubID.573/pub_detail.asp (603 words)

	IAgentCommandsEx::GetGlobalVoiceCommandsEnabled (Agent: Platform SDK)
		Retrieves whether the voice grammar for Agent's global commands is enabled.
		The address that receives True if the voice grammar for Agent's global commands is enabled, False if disabled.
		Microsoft Agent automatically adds voice parameters (grammar) for opening and closing the Voice Commands Window and for showing and hiding the character.
	msdn.microsoft.com /library/en-us/msagent/paface_0h7p.asp?frame=true (160 words)

	agent \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		agent in 13 languages, encyclopedia term for agent.
		Found in thesaurus: causal agency, causal agent, cause, representative, bourgeois, businessperson, official, functionary, participant role, semantic role
		agent to French agent to Italian agent to Spanish agent to Dutch agent to Portuguese agent to German agent to Russian agent to Japanese agent to Chinese (T) agent to Chinese (S) agent to Korean agent to Turkish agent to Hebrew agent to Additional agent to Croatian agent to Serbian agent to Swedish
	www.babylon.com /definition/agent/English (322 words)

	Editing for Grammar and Style
		No matter how sound your document may be technically, your credibility will be undermined by errors in sentence construction or grammar, word choice, usage, punctuation, mechanics, or spelling.
		Circle the main subject or agent of the sentence.
		Make the agent the subject and the action the main verb of the sentence.
	www.mhhe.com /mayfieldpub/tsw/editing.htm (342 words)

	LINGUIST List 3.278: Agent, Vietnamese, Machine Grammar
		As for AGENTs in passive constructions, they seem to be mainly coded as SOURCE (cf.
		Coding as PLACE also occurs, and again in one language (Kayardild), all three kinds of coding are possible, depending on the position of the AGENT on the animacy hierarchy.
		I am interested to find out whether there is any correlation between the type of construction an AGENT occurs in and the kind of preferred "locational" coding.
	linguistlist.org /issues/3/3-278.html (783 words)

	UCM-Agents Project
		One of the first contributions of this project is the design of a linear form (a grammar) that would allow the representation of Use Case Maps as text files.
		Such files are meant to be automatically generated from a visual Use Case Maps editor: the UCM Navigator.
		Annotated UCM grammar, in PDF (124 Kb - February 1st, 1998).
	www.sce.carleton.ca /rads/agents/grammar/grammar.html (130 words)

	Grammar and Its Teaching: Challenging the Myths
		Grammar is often misunderstood in the language teaching field.
		On the teaching and learning of grammar: Challenging the myths.
		ED406829 97 Grammar and Its Teaching: Challenging the Myths.
	www.kidsource.com /kidsource/content4/grammer.morph.html (1942 words)

	INDEX to the Guide to Grammar and Writing
		This index includes 427 references to both the Guide to Grammar and Writing and Principles of Composition.
		It does not, however, include references to the interactive Quizzes or to the Grammarlogs (posted responses to ASK GRAMMAR queries).
		The Guide to Grammar and Writing is sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation, a nonprofit 501 c-3 organization that supports scholarships, faculty development, and curriculum innovation.
	grammar.ccc.commnet.edu /grammar/index2.htm (151 words)

	agent - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Agent (m), agent, agent(e) (m/f), agent (de), agent (m) : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include agent: reducing agent, wetting agent, agent orange, oxidizing agent, free agent, more...
		Words similar to agent: agenting, broker, factor, spy, catalyst, deputy, emissary, federal agent, mole, negotiator, operative, operator, provocateur, rep, representative, more...
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=agent (634 words)

	Agent Wikipedia, Flickr, Delicious Bash at Bashr.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		* Agent (grammar), one of the thematic roles: the participant of a situation that carries out an action.
		* Agent provocateur, a person assigned to provoke unrest, violence, debate, or argument by or within a group while acting as a member of the group but covertly representing the interests of another
		* Agent, a financial institution acting as the operational intermediary in a syndicated loan between the syndicate banks and the borrower.
	www.bashr.com /en_bio_pics/Agent (391 words)

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