Some More Impossible Words

Impossible Words?

The idea that quotidian, middle-level concepts typically have internal structure-definitional, statistical, or whatever—plays a central role in practically every current approach to cognition. Correspondingly, the idea that words that express quotidian, middle-level concepts have complex representations "at the semantic level" is recurrent in linguistics; it is the defining thesis of what is of...

Some Words on Word

In many disciplines, the notion of a word is of central importance. For instance, morphology studies le mot comme tel, pris isolément (Mel’čuk, 1993 [74]). In the philosophy of language the word was often considered to be the primary bearer of meaning. Lexicography has as its fundamental role to catalogue the words of a language. Thus, there has been a lot of work on words and on the nature of ...

More Words and Bigger Pictures

Object recognition is a little like translation: a picture (text in a source language) goes in, and a description (text in a target language) comes out. I will use this analogy, which has proven fertile, to describe recent progress in object recognition. We have very good methods to spot some objects in images, but extending these methods to produce descriptions of images remains very difficult...

Some Remarks on Regular Words

Project title (no more than 20 words)

The target basins of this project are located in the Mekong River Basin across the toposequence (northern Thailand, northeast Thailand, Mekong Delta in Vietnam). An additional site is located in Bhutan. In these basins, diverse stakeholders with differing perceptions of water dynamics adopt various strategies to cope with the problems. There is a need, therefore, to understand the factors influ...