No one had to after the outgoing and incoming presidents, Judy Levering and Merv Heller, ascribed words like "commitment" and "vision" to the younger McEnroe.
The technique works by ascribing each word a set of numbers (or vector) that define its position in a theoretical "meaning space" or cloud.
In his toast, David Rivers, the best man, said that if he were asked to ascribe one word to Ms. Ginsburg and another to Mr. Stern, he would chose "genuine" for the bride and "thorough" for the bridegroom.
Our society has an anxiety problem, in that we have now ascribed the word "anxiety" to such a broad spectrum of feelings and situations that we're not really sure what anxiety means anymore.
His son Willie Geist, a current co-anchor of the third hour of "Today," noted that media coverage of Abramson seemed particularly gendered because of the words ascribed to her. "I thought the words -- especially on that first day or two -- the adjectives used to describe her were just horrible," he said.
A word vector is constructed from the data by parsing the data (text documents), identifying the words used throughout all documents and making a vector with entries representing each word, then ascribing values to this vector for each instance or document using word presence of frequency.
The polemical anti-Origenists, however, need to be read with care since they were not above misquoting Origen and ascribing to him the words of later Origenists.
Clearly, emphasizing one or the other of these two ways of ascribing meaning to the word "mathematics" may correspond to different views on mathematics teaching, and maybe this is the reason why some discussions have turned into rather meaningless battles on words (Schoenfeld 2004).
Another protester, Laurie Arbeiter, invoked words ascribed to the Rev. A. J. Muste, a prominent pacifist who died in 1967.
Korean protesters, however, made clear that they regarded the apology as too little, too late, especially since Mr. Bush himself had not given voice to the words ascribed to him.
