The crying behaviours of newborn infants are shown to be surprisingly sophisticated, reflecting generic prosodic features of their native languages.

Generic sentences (e.g., “birds lay eggs”) express generalizations about kinds, rather than facts about specific individuals or groups of individuals (e.g., “all birds lay eggs”). Generics are an important method of transmitting cultural knowledge, but because there is no unique marker of genericity, identifying whether a sentence is generic is a challenge. Here we investigated how morphosyntac...

Within Systemic Functional Linguistics, Grammatical Metaphor (GM) is a meaning-making resource lying at the experiential level that extends the meaning potential through cross-stratal re-mappings between the grammar and the semantics, boiling down, in one of its manifestations to expressing something that should have been a process (verb) in terms of a thing (noun). This study is an attempt at ...

Object recognition from images is traditionally based on a large training set of previously annotated images which is impractical for some applications. Also, most methods use only local or global features. Due to the nature of objects some features are better suited for some objects, so researchers have recently combined both types of features to improve the recognition performance. This appro...

A generic program is written once and works on values of many data types. Generic Haskell is a recent extension of the functional programming language Haskell that supports generic programming. This paper discusses how Generic Haskell can be used to implement XML tools whose behaviour depends on the DTD or Schema of the input XML document. Example tools include XML editors, databases, and compr...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to conduct a descriptive analysis of the policy environment surrounding the generic medicines retail market in Portugal. The policy analysis focuses on supply-side measures (i.e. market access, pricing, reference-pricing and reimbursement of generic medicines) and demand-side measures (i.e. incentives for physicians to prescribe, for pharmacists to dispense and for pa...

We present a method for improving a 3D facial model by interactive feedback of mapping a texture obtained from a 3D scanner. The method is based on extracting features from both 3D model and texture, and deforming a generic head model. Feature texture area is first mapped onto the corresponding part of a generic head model. The generic model is then reconstructed depending on the result of text...

In this paper we, present (1) an unsupervised system for AESOP task and (2) a generic multi-document summarization system for guided summarization task. We propose the use of: (1) the role and importance of words and sentences in document and, (2) number and coverage strength of topics in document for both AESOP and Guided summarization task. We also use some other statistical features, simple ...

Social media have been popular not only for individuals to share contents, but also for organizations to engage users and spread information. Given the trait differences between personal and organization accounts, the ability to distinguish between the two account types is important for developing better search/recommendation engines, marketing strategies, and information dissemination platform...

In this paper we propose an evolutionary learning based fuzzy theoretic approach for classifying video sequences into generic categories. This categorization is based on video structure based syntactic features. The features like shot durations, editing style, camera work and shot activity conveys large amount of information about the type of video. The information derived from these features i...