SONIC EXPERIENCES IN LOLITA, NABOKOV'S SENSORY TRAGEDY

Understanding LOLITA: Experiences in Teaching Large Scale Functional Programming

LOLITA is a large scale natural processing system written in the functional language Haskell. It consists of over 47,000 lines of code written over 180 dierent modules. There are currently 20 people working on the system, most of whom are Ph.D. students. The majority of research projects involve the development of an application which is written around a semantic network; the knowledge represe...

Modality in Lolita

Inferring Sensory Experiences

Several scholars, e.g. Sellars (1956), Meltzoff & Gopnik (1993), have construed the attribution of experiences as being governed by a folkpsychological theory in which experiences function as theoretical entities. However, so far this claim has not been convincingly supported by an account of how people infer the existence of experiences. In this paper I argue that the mechanisms that lead to t...

Modeling Sensory Dissonance in Space: Revelations in Sonic Sculpture

Teaching Lolita Through Pushkin’s Onegin