Self-Paced Active Learning: Query the Right Thing at the Right Time

The Right Thing at the Right Time: Why Ostensive Naming Facilitates Word Learning

The current study examines how focusing children's attention immediately after fast mapping improves their ability to retain novel names. Previous research suggests that young children can only retain novel names presented via referent selection if ostensive naming is provided and that such explicit naming works by increasing children's attention to the target and decreasing their attention to ...

Learning the right thing with visual attributes∗

Visual attributes are human-nameable semantic properties. They are the adjectives of the visual recognition world, capturing anything from material properties (”metallic”, ”furry”), shapes (”flat”, ”boxy”), expressions (”smiling”, ”surprised”), to functions (”sittable”, ”drinkable”). An attribute may be a binary predicate (”shiny”) or a relative comparison (”shinier than”). Many promising appli...

Doing the Right Thing

Lean Engineering: Doing the Right Thing Right

Lean techniques are having a major impact on aerospace manufacturing. However, the cost and value of aerospace (and many other) products is determined primarily in product development. Migrating lean to engineering processes is ongoing in the industry, and a subject of study at the MIT Lean Aerospace Initiative. This paper summarizes findings to date, with references to both research literature...

Doing the right thing.

In this paper we examine a phenomenon which has proved difficult to account for using standard assumptions of current syntactic theory, namely extraposition. Starting with Rosenbaum (1967), all analyses we are aware of (with the exception of Emonds (1976)) treat extraposition as adjunction of a phrase to some right peripheral projection of a matrix sentence. This adjunction may either be analyz...