Those trying to make sense of the notion of textual content and semantics within the wild, wild world of information retrieval, categorization, and filtering have to deal often with an overwhelming sea of problems. The really strange story is that most of them (myself included) still believe that developing a linguistically principled approach to text categorization is an interesting research p...

Although the visual system rapidly categorizes objects seen under optimal viewing conditions, the categorization of objects seen under impoverished viewing conditions not only requires more time but may also depend more on top-down processing, as hypothesized by object model verification theory. Two studies, one with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and one behavioral with the same ...

People are generally faster and more accurate to name or categorize objects at the basic level (e.g., dog) relative to more general (animal) or specific (collie) levels, an effect replicated in Experiment 1 for categorization of object pictures. To some, this pattern suggests a dual-process mechanism, in which objects first activate basic-level categories directly and later engage more general ...

In this paper, we propose an email categorization method using fuzzy theory and inherent feature of messages set of email. The proposed method can automatically classify emails into category labels, which supports keyword search and directory search method to efficiently manage the classified result with relation to a large volume of emails. In addition, it can reorganize email category hierarc...

Processing large amounts of non-native (L2) phonological data for acquisition-related research remains a challenging task, especially when acoustic analyses are not straightforward as is the case with nasal vowels. Within the InterPhonologie du Français Contemporain project (IPFC), we have developed a perceptual coding procedure and a piece of dedicated software aimed at providing an intermedia...

Four categorized lists were presented for a single study and test trial. Form of retention test (recognition, cued recall, or free recall) for Lists 1-3 was factorially combined with that of List 4. Learning to learn was evident only for cued recall and improvement in that condition was primarily due to an increase in the number of items per category recalled. Effects in Test 4 performance prov...

Many studies appear to show that categorization conforms to psychological essentialism (e.g., Gelman & Wellman, 1991). However, key implications of essentialism have not been scrutinized. These are that people’s categorizations should shift as their knowledge of micro-structural properties shift, and that people should defer in their categorizations to appropriate experts. Three studies are rep...

In his famous Rede lecture of 1959, entitled “The Two Cultures”, C. P. Snow argued that the lack of communication between the humanities and the sciences was very harmful, and he particularly criticized those working in the humanities for their lack of understanding of science. One of the most memorable passages draws attention to a lack of symmetry which still exists, in a milder form, forty y...