There is no more thorough-paced philosopher than Leibniz, and the relations of essence and existence are the very crux of his system; yet he tells us almost nothing about Existence except that it is contingent and a predicate, and he half retracts these. He never intimates, for example, how he can tell that he is a member of the existent world and not a mere possible monad on the shelf of essen...

This paper evaluates four metaphor identification systems on the 200,000 word VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus, comparing results by genre and by sub-class of metaphor. The paper then compares the rate of agreement between the systems for each genre and sub-class. Each of the identification systems is based, explicitly or implicitly, on a theory of metaphor which hypothesizes that certain propertie...

A qualitative representation of space and/or time provides mechanisms that characterize the essential properties of objects or configurations. The advantages over quantitative representations can be: (1) a better match with human concepts related to natural language, and (2) better efficiency for reasoning. The two main trends in qualitative spatial constraint reasoning are topological reasonin...

In this puper, we treat the calibraitim probla in tens of projective geaelry. The projective essences of caaera calibration and calibral ing active 30 visio~~ systm c m p o s d of a camera and a plane structured light source are discussed. And based a r the tlreoras in projective gemel ry. the necessary and sufficient conditions for solving these calibration problms have been given nnd proval. ...

This paper examines causal theories of reference with respect to how plausible an account they give of non-physical natural kind terms such as ‘gene’ as well as of the truth of the associated theoretical claims. I first show that reference fixism for ‘gene’ fails. By this, I mean the claim that the reference of ‘gene’ was stable over longer historical periods, for example, since the classical p...

Waka is a form of traditional Japanese poetry with a 1300year history. In this paper we attempt to semi-automatically discover instances of poetic allusion, or more generally, to find similar poems in anthologies of waka poems. The key to success is how to define the similarity measure on poems. We first examine the existing similarity measures on strings, and then give a unifying framework tha...

This paper examines methods of controlling the supply shock in the estimation of the Phillips curve and discusses the relationship between the supply shock and inflation inertia. The empirical results clearly show that controlling the supply shock effect, not only for current inflation but also for lagged inflation using the asymmetry of the price change distribution, substantially outperforms ...

Vine (1971) examines different geometrical spacings of prey in order to determine their risk of visual detection and pursuit by a predator. In his first model, Vine considers a situation where there are n prey (es), each of body length I and all at a distance r from some predator P. This predator can detect a prey (occupying Z/r radians) if that prey is standing completely within 8, radians in ...

This is a report of research project about developing musical instruments for interactive computer music. The project's name "GHI project" means that "It might be interesting that musical instrument shines, isn't it?" in Japanese. I examined the essences of instruments in my composition again on proverb "Taking a lesson from the past." First of all, I examined the relation between the performer...

The author is responsible for the choice and the presentation of facts in this concept paper and for the opinions expressed therein, which are not necessarily those of UNESCO and do not commit the Organization 1 Summary This research paper deals with the issue of defining and measuring the diversity of cultural expressions. Firstly, it proposes a three-dimensional definition based on a review o...