We present a novel framework for generating pop music. Our model is a hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network, where the layers and the structure of the hierarchy encode our prior knowledge about how pop music is composed. In particular, the bottom layers generate the melody, while the higher levels produce the drums and chords. We conduct several human studies that show strong preference of our ...

Narrative ability is one of the most promising ways to assess communicative competence in children: Coordination of lexical, morphosyntactic, phonological, and pragmatic elements is needed to produce narrations. Narratives might even serve as a diagnostic tool for Specific Language Impairment, since children with Specific Language Impairment are reported to have difficulties producing (oral) na...

This paper challenges the prevailing view that strict informational lobbying (in the absence of political contributions and evidence distortion) leads to better policy outcomes. Key to our analysis is the fact that policymakers are constrained on the number of issues they can address, which forces them to prioritize issues. We show how interest groups advocating reform on less-important issues ...

Surface realizers are used at the final phase of natural language text generation to convert abstract or symbolic representations of information to linguistic forms in a particular human language. Rules of grammar for the target language are applied to produce text that is syntactically, morphologically and orthographically correct. In this paper, we present the development of FilSuRe, a simple...

In this paper a strategy to design multi-overlapping controllers for systems with longitudinal multi-overlapping structure is presented. The design process uses the inclusion principle to carry out a multi-step expansion that allows the decentralized design of a sequence of expanded local controllers. These expanded local controllers are subsequently contracted to produce a multi-overlapping co...

This paper considers the effectiveness of narrative inquiry as a research method in collecting and analyzing stories from purposive sample intensive care nurses doctors, regarding their perceptions factors that influence decision-making relation to withdrawal life sustaining treatment. Delaying treatment when it is clearly indicated, may result unnecessary patient suffering at end life, distres...

generally speaking, lexical items that enter our minds through reading a text commonly leave us with pictures, sounds, echoes, and feelings in the mind. while the ability to produce images in the mind in the process of reading appears to be vital for greater comprehension and recall of texts, research has indicated that many poor readers seemingly do not visualize as they read. on the contrary,...

The collaborative generation of narratives is interesting for its potential to generate, utilising diverse knowledge bases, more interesting stories than those generated individually, and because it provides us with tools to analyze and understand how the creative communication occurs among computers and ultimately among human beings. This research aims to prove that computer agents (computer p...

MATRICES OF CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITES. K. Abe, N. Sakamoto, H. Kojima, A. N. Krot and H. Yurimoto. Department of Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, JAPAN. E-mail: [email protected]. hokudai.ac.jp, Isotope Imaging Laboratory, Creative Research Institution Sousei, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 001-0021, JAPAN, Antarctic Meteorite Research Center, National Institute of Pola...

This article tackles categorical coherence within a two-dimensional generalization of Lawvere’s functorial semantics. 2-theories, a syntactical way of describing categories with structure, are presented. From the perspective here afforded, many coherence results become simple statements about the quasi-Yoneda lemma and 2-theory-morphisms. Given two 2-theories and a 2-theory-morphism between the...