The Moses, Mega-Moses, and Armstrong Illusions: Integrating Language Comprehension and Semantic Memory

The Moses, mega-Moses, and Armstrong illusions: integrating language comprehension and semantic memory.

This study develops a new theory of the Moses illusion, observed in responses to general knowledge questions such as, "How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the Ark?" People often respond "two" rather than "zero" despite knowing that Noah, not Moses, launched the Ark. Our theory predicted two additional types of conceptual error demonstrated here: the Armstrong and mega-Moses illusion...

From Moses to Moses

Had he not created the first systematic and comprehensive code of Jewish law (Mishneh Torah) would his successors in that project, R. Jacob ben Asher, author of the Arba’ah Turim, and R. Joseph Karo, author of the Shulhan Arukh, have had the vision and courage to embark on what would have been, if not for Maimonides, a revolutionary innovation? The Mishneh Torah is revolutionary in three ways: ...

Integration of Background Knowledge in Language Processing: a Uniied Theory of Metaphor Understanding, Moses Illusions and Text Memory

One of the challenges of cognitive psychology is developing general models that explain a wide range of empirical phenomena. We describe a unique language comprehension model that ts data from several text comprehension domains: metaphor understanding, processing of semantic illusions and text memory. We show how background knowledge plays a similar role in all these processes, helping or hampe...

Franke and Moses

Moses SMT

SAP has been heavily involved in the implementation and deployment of machine translation (MT) within the company since the early 1990s. In 2013, SAP initiated an extensive proof of concept project, based on the statistical MT system Moses (Koehn, et al., 2007), in collaboration with the external implementation partner CrossLang. The project focused on the use of Moses SMT as an aid to translat...