Cochlear implantation (CI), which directly stimulates the cochlear nerves, is the most effective and widely used medical intervention for patients with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss. The etiology of the hearing loss is speculated to have a major influence of CI outcomes, particularly in cases resulting from mutations in genes preferentially expressed in the spiral ganglion regio...

22 23 The evolution of fairy tales often involves complex interactions between oral and 24 literary traditions, which can be difficult to tease apart when investigating their 25 origins. Here, we show how computer-assisted stemmatology can be productively 26 applied to this problem, focusing on a long-standing controversy in fairy tale 27 scholarship: did Little Red Riding Hood originate as an ...

Introduction We discuss the problem of creating a reminder generation system that successfully alerts a user to daily tasks while adapting the features of its reminders to the user’s reminding preferences. There are many example applications in which reminding is useful; we motivate the discussion by focusing on two such applications. The first is an office environment in which users require as...

A prerequisite to a theory of the way agents understand speech acts is a theory of how their beliefs and intentions are revised as a consequence of events. This process of attitude revision is an interesting domain for the application of nonmonotonic reasoning because speech acts have a conventional aspect that is readily represented by defaults, but that interacts with an agent's beliefs and i...

In this paper, we propose a dynamic theory of beliefsharing which dens with certain processes of forming and revising shared beliefs during cooperative dialogues. Since Clark & MarshNl(1981) the problem of determination of the referents of referring expressions has been discussed in relation to mutual knowledge. In natural language processing, there haw~ also been several studies treating this ...

la morphologie, c’est l’étude des formes ou bien la mise en place des éléments constitutifs du conte. le travail de vladimir propp consiste à étudier non pas le contenu des contes folkloriques mais le contenant, c’est-à-dire la forme extérieure des contes et leur structure globale. ainsi, l’analyse de le petit poucet et de le chat botté fait appel à une logique fictionnelle propre au merveilleu...