The aim of this note is to emphasize the fact, not observed previously in the literature, that many discrepancy measures used in tests related to different stochastic orders can be expressed as expectations of order statistics. In this way, we provide a new meaning to the corresponding test statistics which allows us to understand better, and potentially improve, the testing procedures. As illu...

The Three-Box “paradox” was introduced by Aharonov and Vaidman (1991) (henceforth “AV”); it has been engaged in controversy regarding its significance and meaning ever since. Vaidman (e.g., (1999a), (1999b)) has presented it as strange even within the ordinary strangeness of quantum mechanics. I have argued (Kirkpatrick, 2003a) for what I see as the quite ordinary, non-paradoxical nature of the...

This chapter has two objectives. It discusses a design pattern for phrasal constructions and introduces the templates that can be used to instantiate this pattern in Fluid Construction Grammar, using as illustration nominal phrases such as “the green mouse” or “this mouse of mine”. Phrasal constructions not only build phrases but also combine the meanings contributed by their constituents and p...

This study examined the experiences of 13 graduate students enrolled in a closed, lock-step master’s degree of the education cohort program. Interview and observational data, collected over 10 months and across four courses, were qualitatively analyzed to explore students’ understanding of the meaning of cohort membership and how that membership both shaped their educational experience and the ...

In this paper, we describe an application that helps hearing-impaired students learn to read and form words by translating speech into video clips of American Sign Language (ASL). The narrator, either a parent or teacher, reads aloud to the student, and the application displays the ASL clip(s) along with the written word(s). The student is thus able to observe the speaker form the words and the...

In the first part, the second quantization procedure and the free Bosonic scalar field will be introduced, and the axioms for quantum fields and nets of observable algebras will be discussed. The second part is mainly devoted to an illustration of the BisognanoWichmann theorem for Wightman fields and in the algebraic setting, with a discussion on the physical meaning of this result. In the thir...

This essay starts with an illustration of ontology with an example of representing the meaning of word, versement. It explores possible uses of ontology information for human translators and machine language processing, such as semantic interpretation, interface to databases, response generation, dialogue management. The terminology with ontological information is valuable semantic resources fo...

Composition of web services based on currently available descriptions such as WSDL is errorprone because the meaning (or semantics) of the labels used in these syntactic descriptions is unclear. We identify three types of problems that can result from semantically heterogeneous descriptions during service composition. These problems call for a Semantic Reference System for semantically annotati...

UIs as a long-term solution for non-visual access to GUIs Kris Van Hees, Jan Engelen Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Department of Electrical Engineering – ESAT – SCD – DocArch Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 B-3001 Heverlee-Leuven Belgium [email protected], [email protected]

One of the many roles of linguistics is to address the semantics of natural languages, that is, the meaning of sentences in natural languages. An important part of the meaning of sentences can be characterized by stating the conditions that need to hold for the sentence to be true. Necessarily, this approach, called truth-conditional semantics, disregards some relevant aspects of meaning, but h...