Abstract As a contribution to the study of complex structures in native Amazonian languages, this article examines syntax additives and conjunctions language Gavião Rondônia. In particle k ĩ ´í ‘also, too, and’ is used form additive (‘also’) constructions with noun phrases verb phrases, without creating conjoined syntactic constituents. The same also constituents, which two or more are conjoine...

This paper studies the relationship between conjunctions in a natural language (Czech) and their logical counterparts. It shows that the process of transformation of a natural language expression into its logical representation is not straightforward. The paper concentrates on the most frequently used logical conjunctions, ∧ and ∨, and it analyzes the natural language phenomena which influence ...

Predicate encryption is an important cryptographic primitive that has found wide applications as it allows for fine-grained key management. In a predicate encryption scheme for a class P of predicates, the owner of the master secret key can derive a secret key SkP for any predicate P ∈ P. Similarly, when encrypting plaintext M , the sender can specify an attribute vector ~x for the ciphertext C...

This paper addresses the problem of Rule Ensemble Learning (REL), where the goal is simultaneous discovery of a small set of simple rules and their optimal weights that lead to good generalization. Rules are assumed to be conjunctions of basic propositions concerning the values taken by the input features. From the perspectives of interpretability as well as generalization, it is highly desirab...

Motion and binocular disparity are two features in our environment that share a common correspondence problem. Decades of psychophysical research dedicated to understanding stereopsis suggest that these features interact early in human visual processing to disambiguate depth. Single-unit recordings in the monkey also provide evidence for the joint encoding of motion and disparity across much of...

We discuss an approach to creating new terms during the induction of Horn clauses. The new terms enable a selective form of look-ahead during hill-climbing search. This look-ahead is needed because a conjunction of literals may be useful while each literal individually may not appear to be useful. We exploit knowledge of common patterns of conjunctions to avoid the necessity of testing all pair...

How do reasoners negate compound sentences, such as conjunctions of the form A and B and disjunctions of the form A or B or both? A theory based on mental models posits that reasoners negate each clause independently, and enumerate the various possibilities consistent with the negation. It makes a novel prediction: negations of conjunctions should be more difficult to comprehend than negations ...

In perceiving objects we may synthesize conjunctions of separable features by directing attention serially to each item in turn (A. Treisman and G. Gelade, Cognitive Psychology, 1980, 12, 97136). This feature-integration theory predicts that when attention is diverted or overloaded, features may be wrongly recombined, giving rise to “illusory conjunctions.” The present paper confirms that illus...

The neural substrates of feature binding are an old, yet still not completely resolved problem. While patient studies suggest that posterior parietal cortex is necessary for feature binding, imaging evidence has been inconclusive in the past. These studies compared visual feature and conjunction search to investigate the neural substrate of feature conjunctions. However, a common problem of the...