Focusing on issues of intercoder reliability, this paper describes problems experienced in designing coding systems that classify language using discourse-relevant categories. First, given the absence of a consensus among language scholars, we examine options for selecting and structuring code categories, particularly those which have an impact on intercoder reliability. We observe that compute...

This is a position paper concerning the role of empirical studies of human default reasoning in the formalization of AI theories of default reasoning. We note that AI motivates its theoretical enterprise by reference to human skill at default reasoning, but that the actual research does not make any use of this sort of information and instead relies on intuitions of individual investigators. We...

The task of coreference resolution requires people or systems to decide when two referring expressions refer to the ‘same’ entity or event. In real text, this is often a difficult decision because identity is never adequately defined, leading to contradictory treatment of cases in previous work. This paper introduces the concept of ‘near-identity’, a middle ground category between identity and ...

Due to uncertainty on target's motion, the range cell migration (RCM) and azimuth phase error (APE) of moving targets can't be completely compensated in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing. Therefore, moving targets often appear two-dimensional (2-D) defocused in SAR images. In this paper, a 2-D autofocus method for refocusing defocused moving targets in SAR images is presented. The new m...

flory fox, kurata-stockmayer, berry, inagaki-suzuki-kurata, stockmayer-fixman and ahmad-baloch methods based on the excluded volume theory have been applied to poly(vinyl chloride)-cyclohexanone system to obtain kq and the radius of gyration. a discussion on the reliability of these methods is given. the stockmayer-fixman and ahmad-baloch methods are found to be equally applicable.

In this paper, based on the kinematic accuracy theory and matrix-based system reliability analysis method, a practical method for system reliability analysis of the kinematic performance of planar linkageswith correlated failuremodes is proposed. The Taylor series expansion is utilized to derive a general expression of the kinematic performance errors caused by random variables. A proper limit ...

Conventional approach to mathematical description of experiments applies probability theory. Here, another approach is used to express uncertainty based on probability, fuzzy sets, and evidence theory. The paper presents a new reliability model of an element working in different environmental and stress conditions. Fuzzy and probability descriptions are combined together using evidence theory t...