Communication whether in verbal or written form is part of our daily life. Hence, we as humans have developed a set of skills that enable us to follow a discourse and extract important information from a text quite easily. For a machine, however language understanding is a quite challenging problem and considered to be AI-complete, i.e. a machine must reach human level intelligence in order to ...

Virtual environments (VEs) offer more than just simulation; they allow us to create perceptual effects not feasible in the real world. Arising from perception research, one technique that can be used is visual masking: under certain temporal and spatial conditions a masking stimulus can be used to prevent explicit, visual awareness of a target stimulus although the target may still be processed...

Within this contribution GENGED is presented, a development environment for visual languages. GENGED offers a hybrid language for defining the syntax of visual languages consisting of an alphabet and a grammar. So far, the main components of GENGED are given by an alphabet and a grammar editor. The syntax description is the input of a diagram editor allowing the syntax-directed manipulation of ...

Figure 1. (A) A single frame of optic nerve imaged under 600-nm illumination. The region of the crush (demarcated with white lines) illuminates poorly and is therefore darker than the rest of the nerve. (B) The activity map of the same nerve during electrical stimulation. Data sets composed of 20 frames, each with a 2-s exposure, were collected during periods chosen randomly in which the nerve ...