Imitation, proximité, sensibilité

Structure et proximité pour la recherche documentaire

Our study compares the effectiveness of an information retrieval system based on the proximity of the query term occurrences in the documents and an IRS based on a language model with Dirichlet smoothing and with the Okapi BM25 model. Our proximity based model computes at each position in the document a value much higher as some occurrences of all the query terms are close to this position. Mor...

Social Cognition: Imitation, Imitation, Imitation

Monkeys recognize when they are being imitated, but they seem unable to learn by imitation. These facts make sense if imitation is seen as two different capacities: social mirroring, when actions are matched and have social benefits; and learning by copying, when new behavioural routines are acquired by observation.

Equivalence topologique entre mesures de proximité

Résumé. Le choix d’une mesure de proximité entre objets a un impact direct sur les résultats de toute opération de classification, de comparaison, d’évaluation ou de structuration d’un ensemble d’objets. Pour un problème donné, l’utilisateur est amené à choisir une parmi les nombreuses mesures de proximité existantes. Or, selon la notion d’équivalence choisie, comme celle basée sur les préordon...

Processus téléologique et variabilité. Utilisation de la sensibilité au contexte

Imitation

To plagiarise is surely the worst of sins for an author; a person who claims originality after copying the works of others is obviously a deceiver. But to live successfully in the world it is not necessary to be original and sinfulness only enters if originality is claimed falsely. In fact, imitation is one method by which the young develop; a child copies the behaviour of its parents, brothers...