One’s mood influences one’s inclination to either rely on one’s current beliefs or search for different ones. Since mood may reflect one’s failures and achievements from interacting with the environment, perhaps this influence is working to our advantage. We propose a simple agent architecture, where the behaviors of learning from or teaching other agents are dependent on the agent’s current mo...

1Haematology, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science/SA Pathology and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia; 2School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia; 3Mater Medical Research Institute, South Brisbane, Australia; 4School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; and 5Division of Cancer Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Aust...

After a considerable hiatus of interest and funding, machine translation has come in recent years to occupy a significant place in the discipline of natural language processing. It has also become one of the most visible representations of natural language processing to the outside world. Machine translation systems are relatively unique with respect to the extent of the coverage they at tempt ...