The "Invention" of Polyphony

Polyphony and Argumentative Semantics

We extract from sentences a superstructure made of argumentative operators and connectives applying to the remaining set of terminal sub-sentences. We found the argumentative interpretation of utterances on a semantics defined at the linguistic level. We describe the computation of this particular semantics, based on the constraints that the superstructure impels to the argumentative power of t...

Temporal Patterns in Polyphony

This paper formally characterizes the expressiveness of three approaches for polyphonic pattern representation and matching: R (relational patterns); H (Humdrum); and SPP (Structured Polyphonic Patterns). Relational networks have the highest expressiveness but H and SPP admit faster matching algorithms. It is shown how H and SPP can be cast as different restrictions of R, both providing an expr...

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The structure of invention

This paper explores the process by which radically novel technologies – ones such as radar, the turbojet, or the polymerase chain reaction – come into being. It shows that this process – “invention” – has a certain logical structure common to all cases. Invention is a process of linking some purpose or need with an effect that can be exploited to satisfy it. It may begin with a purpose or need ...

Field of the Invention

DATA DETECTION Kiyoshi Yokota, et al. in "A New Missing ATM Cell Reconstruction Scheme for ADPCM-Coded Speech', Pro ceedings of the International Conference of Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 1989. Cointot and G. de PassoZ in "A 60-Channel PCM-ADPCM Converter Robust to Channel Errors', Proceedings of the International Conference of Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 1982. D. Kim ...