From a generic set of uncertain pieces of information about the normal course of things and a temporal sequence of reported facts, an intelligent artifact should be able to identify causally related events and distinguish between factors that facilitate or justify the occurrence of events from other facts. In this paper, we propose a model for causality and facilitation ascriptions when the bac...

Certain recurrent consonant-vowel co-occurrence frequency biases have often been attributed to the biomechanics of the mandible. This paper takes issue with this claim by pointing to some methodological flaws in the literature supporting it. CV co-occurrence data on Spanish and Portuguese are brought to bear on such neglected issues as sampling, effect size, and count type. It is shown that sma...

A key challenge in vocabulary acquisition is learning which of the many possible meanings is appropriate for a word. The word generalization problem refers to how children associate a word such as dog with a meaning at the appropriate category level in a taxonomy of objects, such as Dalmatians, dogs, or animals. We present the first computational study of word generalization integrated within a...

We present a tool, called ILIMP, which takes as input a raw text in French and produces as output the same text in which every occurrence of the pronoun il is tagged either with tag [ANA] for anaphoric or [IMP] for impersonal or expletive. This tool is therefore designed to distinguish between the anaphoric occurrences of il, for which an anaphora resolution system has to look for an antecedent...

PURPOSE The purpose of this article is to clarify the distinction between research and audit, and propose appropriate regulatory arrangements for audit and related activities. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The methods used were literature reviews and conceptual analysis. FINDINGS Research and audit overlap in various ways, but differ in terms of their purposes and the risks likely to be encou...