Sankara's Interpretation of bhakti as upasana

Corporate Perspectives On The Vedic Meditative Practice Upasana

77 T he individual biological organism is more than a mere aggregate of disparate body functions. Angyal (1941) remarked that there are no irrelevant properties to the component subunits of a biological organism. The feature is a definitive characteristic of systemic organizations. The idea of transformation of an aggregate of functions to a system was used by Sri Aurobindo in order to explicat...

Modelling as Selection of Interpretation

This paper is part of an ongoing research effort to better understand the act of modelling. We describe a formal framework by which the process of modelling can be regarded as involving the selection of more and more refined interpretations in terms of the underlying meta-model of the modelling language used. The resulting framework will be used to create a laboratory setup in which we can cons...

Interpretation as Exception Minimization

Ambiguity is a notorious problem for Natural Language Processing. According to results obtained by Schmitz and Quantz I see disambiguation as a process in which contextual defaults are used to derive the most preferred interpretation of an expression. I show how contextual information comprising grammatical as well as conceptual knowledge can be modeled in a homogeneous manner using Terminologi...

Interpretation as conflict resolution

Interpretation as Abduction

Hobbs, J.R., M.E. Stickel, D.E. Appelt and P. Martin, Interpretation as abduction, Artificial Intelligence 63 (1993) 69-142. Abduction is inference to the best explanation. In the TACITUS project at SRI we have developed an approach to abductive inference, called "weighted abduction", that has resulted in a significant simplification of how the problem of interpreting texts is conceptualized. T...