Sense of Perspective

Sense of Security from the Environmental Perspective A Case Study of Tehran’s Pardisan Park

Since, in the same vein as public spaces, urban green spaces play a significant role in establishing social interactions in the Iranian cities, security concerns need to be taken more seriously in such places than other social environments, the insufficiency of which could diminish their functional capacity. This could in turn lead to a source of subsequent difficulties in urban spaces. Therefo...

Word Sense Disambiguation: A Structured Learning Perspective

This paper explores the application of structured learning methods (SLMs) to word sense disambiguation (WSD). On one hand, the semantic dependencies between polysemous words in the sentence can be encoded in SLMs. On the other hand, SLMs obtained significant achievements in natural language processing, and so it is a natural idea to apply them to WSD. However, there are many theoretical and pra...

An emergentist perspective on the origin of number sense

The finding that human infants and many other animal species are sensitive to numerical quantity has been widely interpreted as evidence for evolved, biologically determined numerical capacities across unrelated species, thereby supporting a 'nativist' stance on the origin of number sense. Here, we tackle this issue within the 'emergentist' perspective provided by artificial neural network mode...

Judging Perspective: Making Sense of the 2010 Census

Making Sense of the Connected Consumers : the Business Perspective

We have entered the digital economy, in which consumers are increasingly connected to the vast digital resources and services on the Internet, to businesses and government agencies, and to each other. The ubiquitous Internet and related technologies have made it possible for pervasive connectivity at affordable prices via multiple channels and a growing range of devices. This is happening not o...