Given the restrictions on the subjects and objects that any given verb may take, it seems likely that children might learn verbs partly by exploiting statistical regularities in cooccurrences between verbs and noun phrases. Pronouns are the most common NPs in the speech that children hear. We demonstrate that pronouns systematically partition several important classes of verbs, and that a simpl...

The design and implementation of a software system is often governed by many different coding conventions, design patterns, architectural design rules, and other so-called structural regularities. To prevent a deterioration of the system’s source code, it is important that these regularities are verified and enforced in subsequent evolutions of the system. The Intensional Views Environment (Int...

There are striking regularities in the masses and mass differences of known hadrons. Some of these regularities can be understood from known general properties of the interactions of quarks without a need to specify the explicit form of the Hamiltonian. The Feynman–Hellmann theorem is one of the tools providing this understanding. If the mass regularities are exploited, predictions can be made ...

The world (both natural and man-made) is constrained by physical laws to a finite number of basic patterns. Certain three dimensional relationships between features in a scene give rise to two dimensional relationships that are relatively viewpoint invariant and can be distinguished as non-accidental. Thus, those regularities observable in the image arise not by accident, but are projections of...

Computational work has suggested that one could, in principle, learn aspects of word meaning simply from patterns of co-occurrence between words. The extent to which humans can do this distributional learning is an open question – artificial language learning experiments have yielded mixed results, prompting suggestions that distributional cues must be correlated with other cues, such as phonol...

Search algorithms for solving Numeric CSPs (Constraint Satisfaction Problems) make an extensive use of filtering techniques. In this paper1 we show how those filtering techniques can be accelerated by discovering and exploiting some regularities during the filtering process. Two kinds of regularities are discussed, cyclic phenomena in the propagation queue and numeric regularities of the domain...

Previous studies have researched the possibility of studying the speaker idiosyncrasies on phonetic regularities, by means of temporal parameters like the segmental duration. In Spain we have an official language for all State, Castilian or Spanish language, and various community languages; Catalan language is the language of Catalonia, but people of Catalonia is bilingual. Besides, people of d...

A key hypothesis in sensory system neuroscience is that sensory representations are adapted to the statistical regularities in sensory signals and thereby incorporate knowledge about the outside world. Supporting this hypothesis, several probabilistic models of local natural image regularities have been proposed that reproduce neural response properties. Although many such physiological links h...