We present a holistic data-driven approach to image description generation, exploiting the vast amount of (noisy) parallel image data and associated natural language descriptions available on the web. More specifically, given a query image, we retrieve existing human-composed phrases used to describe visually similar images, then selectively combine those phrases to generate a novel description...

Product configuration system, being a knowledge intensive system, plays an important role in order to realize Mass Customization. The Platformbased generic product configuration tool(PB-GPCT) being developed by Institute of Design for Innovation, Hebei University of Technology. PB-GPCT is a structure-based and domain independent configuration tool. For the realization of PB-GPCT, UML is chosen ...

Generating coordinated multimodal behavior for an embodied agent (speech, gesture, facial expression. . . ) is challenging. It requires a high degree of animation control, in particular when reactive behaviors are required. We suggest to distinguish realization planning, where gesture and speech are processed symbolically using the behavior markup language (BML), and presentation which is contr...

The Wigner-Araki-Yanase theorem shows that conservation laws limit the accuracy of measurement. Here, we generalize the argument to show that conservation laws limit the accuracy of quantum logic operations. A rigorous lower bound is obtained of the error probability of any physical realization of the controlled-NOT gate under the constraint that the computational basis is represented by a comp...

We consider the symmetric Darlington synthesis of a p × p rational symmetric Schur function S with the constraint that the extension is of size 2p × 2p and we investigate what happens when we impose that S and its extension have real coefficients. In this case, under the assumption that S is strictly contractive in at least one point of the imaginary axis, we determine the an upper bound for th...

Single-independent path (SIP) analysis is a quick and accurate method for estimating the optimized delay of a logic circuit as a function of power constraint. The technique is based on the realization that a certain class of networks, called SIP, can be easily and precisely optimized by analytic means and that other networks can be accurately approximated by a SIP network. SIP analysis optimize...

In the last several years the hybrid approach to Knowledge Representation has received much attention, because it was felt that one monolithic knowledge representation formalism cannot meet all representational demands. In this paper we will present one particular hybrid knowledge representation system, BACK, concentrating on matters of how to integrate diierent subformalisms and their interpre...

This paper analyzes patterns of prosodic prominence and intonational phrasing of narrowly focused words in a variety of Northern Bizkaian Basque. One type of speaker can only single out words intonationally if they are accented and constitute APs by themselves, while the other type can have prominence on any word which is accented, regardless of whether it constitutes an AP by itself. Lexically...

______________________________________________ 1. A servant of two masters 2. Realization and the metaphysics of mind 3. Realization and the cognitive sciences 4. A working account of realization 4.1 Must realization be decompositional? 4.2 Must realization be constitutive or intrinsic? 4.3 Must realization be synchronic? 5. Autonomy, reduction, and multiple realizability 6. Conclusion: Getting...