We examined the role of fitness, commonly assumed without proof to be conferred by the mastery of language, in shaping the dynamics of language evolution. To that end, we introduced island migration (a concept borrowed from population genetics) into the shared lexicon model of communication (Nowak et al., 1999). The effect of fitness linear in language coherence was compared to a control condit...

We investigate the use of prosody for the detection of frustration and annoyance in natural human-computer dialog. In addition to prosodic features, we examine the contribution of language model information and speaking “style”. Results show that a prosodic model can predict whether an utterance is neutral versus “annoyed or frustrated” with an accuracy on par with that of human interlabeler ag...

We argue that there is a tension between two monistic claims are the core of recent work in epistemic consequentialism. The first form monism about value, commonly known as veritism: accuracy sole final objective to be promoted domain. other class scoring rules: is, strictly proper rules only legitimate measures inaccuracy. These monisms, we argue, with each other. If has then alternatives rule...

The possibility of using charm meson physics to test the Standard Model (SM) is reviewed. In the case of D0 − D̄0 mixing, the SM contributions are carefully considered and the existence of a window for the observation of new physics is discussed. Some examples of extensions of the SM giving large mixing signals are presented. Finally, some distinctive aspects of CP violation and rare decays in c...

The degree of incoherence, when previsions are not made in accordance with a probability measure, is measured by the rate at which an incoherent bookie can be made a sure loser. We consider each bet from three points of view: that of the gambler, that of the bookie, and a neutral viewpoint. From each viewpoint, we de ne an normalization for each bet, and the sure loss for incoherent previsions ...

Bell’s inequality is usually considered to belong to mathematics and not quantum theory. We think that this complicates understanding of Bell’s theorem. Thus in this paper, contrary to Bell’s spirit (which inherits Einstein’s spirit), we try to discuss Bell’s inequality in the framework of quantum theory with the linguistic Copenhagen interpretation. And we clarify that whether or not Bell’s in...