Information-theoretic lower bounds of the Bayes risk have been investigated for a problem parameter estimation in Bayesian setting. Previous studies proven bound different manner and characterized via quantities such as mutual information, Sibson's α-mutual f-divergence, Csiszár's f-informativity. In this paper, we introduce an inequality called “meta-bound risk” show that previous results can ...

Linguistic communication is geared toward the exchange of information, i.e., changing addressee's world views. In other words, persuasion goal speakers and force speaker's commitment as indicated in utterance an important factor persuasion. Other things being equal, stronger commitment, easier However, if deception detected, harsher punishment, damage to his or her reputation. One way for cheat...

Generic health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instruments, such as EQ-5D, are important tools in economic evaluations for measuring disease burden and generating quality-adjusted years (QALYs). Our goal was to compare measurement properties two versions this instrument, the EQ-5D-3L (3L) EQ-5D-5L (5L) atopic dermatitis (AD). We conducted a multicentre cross-sectional survey Hungary, involving ...

Research on English and other languages has shown that syllables and words that contain more information tend to be produced with longer duration (e.g. Aylett & Turk 2004). This research is evolving into a general thesis that speakers articulate linguistic units with more information more robustly. While this hypothesis seems plausible from the perspective of communicative efficiency, previous ...

A question of some interest is how to characterize the amount of information that a prior puts into a statistical analysis. Rather than a general characterization of this information, we provide an approach to characterizing the amount of information a prior puts into an analysis, when compared to another base prior. The base prior is considered to be the prior that best reflects the current av...

Speakers often overspecify their referring descriptions by including more information than what is required to uniquely distinguish a referent. Although overspecification has received a substantial amount of attention, the factors that play a role in determining this behaviour are not yet well understood. Given evidence of cross-linguistic difference between English and Spanish regarding oversp...

We propose a method for learning semantic CCG parsers by projecting annotations via a parallel corpus. The method opens an avenue towards cheaply creating multilingual semantic parsers mapping open-domain text to formal meaning representations. A first cross-lingually learned Dutch (from English) semantic parser obtains f-scores ranging from 42.99% to 69.22% depending on the level of label info...