Most efforts at automatically creating multilingual lexicons require input lexical resources with rich content (e.g. semantic networks, domain codes, semantic categories) or large corpora. Such material is often unavailable and difficult to construct for under-resourced languages. In some cases, particularly for some ethnic languages, even unannotated corpora are still in the process of collect...

(UAC) like characteristics of an S-CSCF. To show its efficiency, the session transfer delay and the traffic cost of RSA session transfer are investigated and compared with those of existing session transfer applications, including Assured and Consultative session transfers, by practically considering multiple session transfer failures. It is shown that RSA session transfer can further improve u...

Behavioral economics tells us that emotions can profoundly affect individual behavior and decisionmaking. Does this also apply to societies at large, i.e. can societies experiencemood states that affect their collective decision making? By extension is the public mood correlated or even predictive of economic indicators? Here we investigate whether measurements of collective mood states derived...

While Hall (1978) argues that the solution for consumption of a life-cycle model with uncertainty and isoelastic preferences evolves as a random walk in first order approximation around small income shocks, I show that it does not. First, I explain that the solution for consumption departs from a random walk because of precautionary behavior. A prudent household facing uncertainty allocates mor...

Accounts of mental content rooted in asymmetric dependence hold, crudely speaking, that the content of a mental representation is the cause of that representation on which all its other causes depend.1 To speak somewhat less crudely, such accounts, hereafter “AD accounts”, hold 1) that (a) any nomic relations which obtain between, on the one hand, a mental representation and, on the other hand,...

Exemplar and distributional accounts of categorization make differing predictions for the classification of a critical exemplar precisely halfway between the nearest exemplars of two categories differing in variability. Under standard conditions of sequential presentation, the critical exemplar was classified into the most similar, least variable category, consistent with an exemplar account. H...

∗ Talk given at ACAT 2000, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, October 16–20, 2000. To be published in Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, edited by: P.C. Bhat and M. Kasemann. We denote the generic two-loop tensor crossed (or non-planar) four-point function in D dimensions of Fig. 1 with seven propagators Ai raised to arbitrary powers νi as Xbox (ν1 . . .ν7;s,t) [1; k; l; kμkν; ...

Bayesian models have been applied to many areas of cognitive science including vision, language, and motor learning. We discuss the implications of this framework for cognitive development. We first present a brief introduction to the Bayesian framework. Bayesian models make assumptions about representation explicit, and provide a detailed account of learning. Furthermore, they can provide an a...

The layout of functional cortical maps exhibits a high degree of interindividual variability that may account for individual differences in sensory and cognitive abilities. By quantitatively assessing the interindividual variability of orientation preference columns in the primary visual cortex, we demonstrate that column sizes and shapes as well as a measure of the homogeneity of column sizes ...

In recent years, several computational models (Alishahi & Stevenson 2008, Chang 2008, Bannard, Lieven & Tomasello 2009) have begun fulfilling the promise of usage-based construction grammar (Tomasello 2003, Goldberg 2006) as a computationally testable account of the acquisition of grammar.1 In simulating specific developmental patterns, such as the generalization of argument structure construct...