Choosing among natural stimuli

Heuristics for Choosing Features to Represent Stimuli

In this paper, we compare three heuristic methods for choosing which of a set of features to use to represent a domain of stimuli when we know the categories to which those stimuli belong. Our methods are based on three measures of category differentiation: cue validity, category validity, and their product, collocation. In a comparison of their ability to predict human similarity ratings in th...

Choosing among qualitative traditions.

Choosing Among Alternative Futures

Non-determinism is a serious impediment to testing and debugging concurrent programs. Such programs do not execute the same way each time they are run, which can hide the presence of errors. Existing techniques use a variety of mechanisms that attempt to increase the probability of uncovering error conditions by altering the execution sequence of a concurrent program, but do not test for specif...

Choosing among Architectures for AppliedMultilingual

This is an extended abstract of a talk to be presented at the Future Issues for Multilingual Text Processing workshop of PRICAI-96. This talk intends to give an overview of the project ACNLG (Applied Chinese Natural Language Generation) as it currently stands. Since we are at the beginning of our project, the discussion has a corresponding preliminary character. By discussing our philosophy and...

Choosing Among Interpretations of Probability

There is available an ever-increasing vari­ ety of procedures for managing uncertainty. These methods are discussed in the literature of artificial intelligence, as well as in the lit­ erature of philosophy of science. Heretofore these methods have been evaluated by intu­ ition, discussion, and the general philosoph­ ical method of argument and counterexam­ ple. Almost any method of uncertainty...