The general aim of the present paper is to show the advantages of the model-theoretic approach to Inductive Logic Programming. The paper introduces a new generality ordering between Horn clauses, called-subsumption. It is stronger than-subsumption and weaker than generalized subsumption. Most importantly-subsumption allows to compare clauses in a local sense, i.e. with respect to a partial inte...

We present algorithms that learn certain classes of function-free recursive logic programs in polynomial time from equivalence queries. In particular, we show that a single k-ary recursive constant-depth determinate clause is learnable. Two-clause programs consisting of one learnable recursive clause and one constant-depth determinate non-recursive clause are also learnable, if an additional \b...

“Case” and “grammatical function” are central to syntactic theories, but rigorous treatments of these notions in surface-oriented grammars like Dynamic Syntax (DS) are pending. Within DS, it is simply held that a case particle resolves structural uncertainty (i.e., unfixed node) in the course of incremental tree update. We model the relation between “case” and “grammatical function” with specia...

This column consists in a dialogue (sections 2 and 3) between Cookie and Parabel, protagonists from an earlier column called “Fragments of the Void” (Kauffman, 2004). The dialogue is about the nature of number and the emergence of form and number from the void. In this discussion the void is not empty. It is quite full. The void consists in what is given prior to any distinction. Thus in the vo...

Stretch but don’t follow s slow-twitch muscle cells migrate through fast-twitch muscle precursor cells, they act as morphogenesis tutors, according to Clarissa Henry and Sharon Amacher (University of California, Berkeley, CA). Fast-twitch muscle cells in zebrafish start off life as round blobs but must undergo anterio-posterior elongation to become functional myofibers. Henry and Amacher had no...

Spoken monologues feature greater sentence length and structural complexity than do spoken dialogues. To achieve high parsing performance for spoken monologues, it could prove effective to simplify the structure by dividing a sentence into suitable language units. This paper proposes a method for dependency parsing of Japanese monologues based on sentence segmentation. In this method, the depen...

Motivated by a recently developed technique for measuring soft materials properties at the tip of an embedded needle [Zimberlin, et al., Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 763], the mechanics of elasticity- and surface tension-governed void growth within a neo-Hookean material is explored. Previous efforts to describe this technique relied on a hybrid spherical void/spherical cap approximation, thus assumin...

a jurisprudential and legal survey on reflection of fairness in the special legal acts siroos shahriyari [1] hamid miri (ph.d.) [2]     abstract with a view to foreign and domestic law and jurisprudence, it is appeared that there are streaks of making attention to the fairness factor behind of confronting some special legal acts such as usury and mortgage contracts, penal and non-liability clau...