A common view in the research on dynamic system control is that human subjects use exemplar knowledge of system states – at least for controlling small systems. Dissociations between different tasks or stochastic independence between recognition and control tasks, have led to the assumption that part of the exemplar knowledge is implicit. In this paper, I propose an alternative interpretation o...

Remotely sensed images are important sources of information for a range of spatial problems. Air photo interpretation emerged as a discipline in response to the need to develop a systematic method for analysis of reconnaissance photographs during World War I. Remote sensing research has focused on the development of automated methods of image analysis, shifting focus away from human interpretat...

Since 1970 vector-space models have been used for information retrieval from unstructured text. The initial simple vector-space models suffered the same problems encountered today in searching the internet. These difficulties were significantly relieved by Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), introduced in 1990 and improved through 1995. Starting with the simple vector-space model’s sparse term-by-d...

In allegories polysemy relates not only to the context and the audience’s understanding but also to the structural characters of these texts. This paper investigates the function of structural and narrative properties in the creation of multiple interpretations of an allegory. Focusing on the events and following a unique story-line is the most important trait in helping to read the alleg...

In this paper two di erent approaches to evidential learning are investigated in how they apply to generalizing within spatial domains. We present a systematic evaluation of learning to identify unconstrained spatial data. The e ciency of di erent approaches to evidential theory for relational problems is compared. Many real-world identi cation and planning tasks involve the interpretation of d...

BACKGROUND Theoretical accounts of attentional and interpretation biases in pain suggest that these biases are interrelated and are both influenced by perceived threat. A laboratory-based study was conducted to test whether these biases are influenced by threat and their interrelationship and whether attention or interpretation biases predict pain outcomes. METHODS Healthy participants (n = 8...

The scene interpretation and the behavior planning of a vehicle in real world traffic is a difficult problem to be solved. If different hierarchies of tasks and purposes are built to structure the behavior of a driver, complex systems can be designed. But finally behavior planning in vehicles can only influence the controlled variables: steering angle and velocity. In this paper a scene interpr...

Most research into cognitive biases has used Western samples, despite potential East-West socio-cultural differences. One reason is the lack of appropriate measures for non-Westerners. This study is about cross-linguistic equivalence which needs to be established before assessing cross-cultural differences in future research. We developed parallel Mandarin and English measures of interpretation...