Fallible Authority

Reference Fallible Endgame Play

A reference model of fallible endgame play is defined in terms of a spectrum of endgame players whose play ranges in competence from random to optimal choice of move. They may be used as suitable practice partners, to differentiate between otherwise equi-optimal moves, to promote or expedite a result, to assess an opponent, to run Monte Carlo simulations, and to identify the difficulty of a pos...

Fallible Rationalism And Machine Translation

Approaches to MT have been heavily influenced by changing trends in the philosophy of language and mind. Because of the artificial hiatus which followed the publication of the ALPAC Report, MT research in the 197Os and early 198Os has had to catch up with major developments that have occurred in linguistic and philosophical thinking; currently, MT seems to be uncritically loyal to a paradigm of...

Simulating Simple and Fallible Relevance Feedback

Much of the research in relevance feedback (RF) has been performed under laboratory conditions using test collections and either test persons or simple simulation. These studies have given mixed results. The design of the present study is unique. First, the initial queries are realistically short queries generated by real end-users. Second, we perform a user simulation with several RF scenarios...

Belief Revision with Sensing and Fallible Actions

An agent will generally have incomplete and possibly inaccurate knowledge about its environment. In addition, such an agent may receive erroneous information, perhaps in being misinformed about the truth of some formula. In this paper we present a general approach to reasoning about action and belief change in such a setting. An agent may carry out actions, but in some cases may inadvertently e...

Building Robust Systems with Fallible Construction