In this article I give a naturalistic-cum-formal analysis of the relation between beauty, empirical success, and truth. The analysis is based on the one hand on a hypothetical variant of the so-called ‘mere-exposure effect’ which has been more or less established in experimental psychology regarding exposure-affect relationships in general and aesthetic appreciation in particular (Zajonc, 1968,...

Data warehouses (DWs) can become inconsistent when some dimensional constraints are not satisfied by the dimension instances. In this paper, we present preliminary results about the effects of the violation of partitioning constraints in homogeneous dimension instances over aggregation queries, and in particular over the summarizability property (SUMM) of the DWs. We are interested in finding w...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss empirical risk minimization when the losses are not necessarily bounded and may have a distribution with heavy tails. In such situations usual empirical averages may fail to provide reliable estimates and empirical risk minimization may provide large excess risk. However, some robust mean estimators proposed in the literature may be used to replace empiri...

In this note we study lower bounds on the empirical minimization algorithm. To explain the basic set up of this algorithm, let (Ω, μ) be a probability space and set X to be a random variable taking values in Ω, distributed according to μ. We are interested in the function learning (noiseless) problem, in which one observes n independent random variables X1, . . . , Xn distributed according to μ...

This study established a list of criteria to select a first programming language. We used a literature study to create criteria for developing thinking and programming skills, student appropriate programming learning environments, new tendencies in programming, practical programming issues, affordability, training and resources, and general-purpose programming. An empirical study verified the v...

This paper describes the design criteria and annotation guidelines of Sinica Treebank. The three design criteria are: Maximal Resource Sharing, Minimal Structural Complexity, and Optimal Semantic Information. One of the important design decisions following these criteria is the encoding of thematic role information. An on-line interface facilitating empirical studies of Chinese phrase structure...

This paper deals with the representation of the family in Japanese TV commercials. Based on empirical research conducted in 2004 and 2005, it argues that Japanese commercials tend to depict the family and its members in highly stereotypical ways. Mothers are almost always shown doing some kind of housework, at times supported by their daughters, preparing for their future role as a mother and w...