The so-called subjectivity of conscious experience is central to much recent work in the philosophy of mind. Subjectivity is the alleged property of consciousness whereby one can know what it is like to have certain conscious states only if one has undergone such states oneself. I review neurophilosophical work on consciousness and concepts pertinent to this claim and argue that subjectivity el...

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Subjective behavior is essential for applications that must adapt their behavior to changing circumstances. Many different solutions have been proposed in the past, based, for example, on perspectives, roles, contextual layers, and “force trees”. Although these approaches are somehow equally expressive, each imposes a particular world view which may not be appropriate for all applications. We p...

In this work, we present a sentence-level subjectivity detection method, which relies on Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation (SWSD). We use an unsupervised sense clustering-based method for SWSD. In our method, semantic resources tagged with emotions and sentiment polarities are used to apply subjectivity detection, intervening Word Sense Disambiguation sub-tasks. Through an experimental stu...

Subjectivity and meaning are both important properties of language. This paper explores their interaction, and brings empirical evidence in support of the hypotheses that (1) subjectivity is a property that can be associated with word senses, and (2) word sense disambiguation can directly benefit from subjectivity annotations.

Subjectivity is essential to consciousness. But though subjectivity is necessary for consciousness it is not sufficient. In part one I derive a distinction between conscious awareness and unconscious subjectivity from a critique of Block’s (1995) distinction between access and phenomenal consciousness. In part two I contrast two historically influential models of unconscious thought: cognitive ...

We address the issue of human subjectivity when authoring summaries, aiming at a simple, robust evaluation of machine generated summaries. Applying a cross comprehension test on human authored short summaries from broadcast news, the level of subjectivity is gauged among four authors. The instruction set is simple, thus there is enough room for subjectivity. However the approach is robust becau...

Introduction Consciousness is best understood in context, as one element of an interactive waking state in which the greater part of cognitive processing takes place in a nonconscious fashion. But if conscious and nonconscious processing are combined in the waking state, what distinguishes the former form the latter, what is consciousness, and what is its purpose? The answer to the second quest...