Quantal effects and MaxEnt

Quantal effects and MaxEnt

Maxent Mechanics

This paper shows that: (a) given a mechanical system described by a set of independent coordinates in configuration space, (b) given an initial state of specified initial coordinates, and (c) given a situation in which the system can follow any one of a set of different possible paths with a pertinent probability pi , then the average path (defined as the weighted average positions and correspo...

Maxent Queries and Sequential Sampling

In this paper we pose the question: After gathering N data points, at what value of the control parameter should the next measurement be done? We propose an on-line algorithm which samples optimally by maximizing the gain in information on the parameters to be measured. We show analytically that the information gain is maximum for those potential measurements whose outcome is most unpredictable...

Quantal phases, disorder effects, and superconductivity in spin-Peierls systems.

In view of recent developments in the investigation on cuprate high- T(c) superconductors and the spin-Peierls compound CuGeO3, we study the effect of dilute impurity doping on the spin-Peierls state in quasi-one-dimensional systems. We identify a common origin for the emergence of antiferromagnetic order upon the introduction of static vacancies and superconductivity for mobile holes.

GYDER: Maxent Metonymy Resolution

Though the GYDER system has achieved the highest accuracy scores for the metonymy resolution shared task at SemEval-2007 in all six subtasks, we don’t consider the results (72.80% accuracy for org, 84.36% for loc) particularly impressive, and argue that metonymy resolution needs more features.