We present a framework for learning abstract relational knowledge, with the aim of explaining how people acquire intuitive theories of physical, biological, or social systems. Our algorithm infers a generative relational model with latent classes, simultaneously determining the kinds of entities that exist in a domain, the number of these latent classes, and the relations between classes that a...

Familiarity is an elusive concept, capturing what we know intimately and only recognize from having seen before. This article aims to disambiguate these interpretations by proposing a sociological conceptualization of familiarity as dynamic relationship the world that develops over time through experience allows one progressively disattend appears “usual.” Focusing on how urban environments the...

This paper complements semantic role representations with spatial knowledge beyond indicating plain locations. Namely, we extract where entities are (and are not) located, and for how long (seconds, hours, days, etc.). Crowdsourced annotations show that this additional knowledge is intuitive to humans and can be annotated by non-experts. Experimental results show that the task can be automated.

Parsing is a core natural language processing technique that can be used to obtain the structure underlying sentences in human languages. Named entity recognition (NER) task of identifying entities appear text. NER challenging essential extract knowledge from texts multiple domains, ranging financial medical. It intuitive text helpful determine whether or not certain portion it an and if so, es...

Although Darwin insisted that human intelligence could be fully explained by the theory of evolution, the codiscoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace, claimed that abstract intelligence was of no use to ancestral humans and could only be explained by intelligent design. Wallace's apparent paradox can be dissolved with two hypotheses about human cognition. One is that intelligence i...

An ecological theory focuses on the relation of subject and world as mutually dependent moments of a whole and on the development and history of entities rather than on their present properties and dispositions. Values are an aspect of the relation between organism and environment that cannot be reduced to properties of organism or environment taken as separate entities. The theory of value dev...