An important problem in developmental robotics is the automatic learning of motor routines or behaviors without human guidance. This paper presents Self-Organizing Distinctive-State Abstraction (SODA), a method by which a robot can learn a set of sensory features and reusable motor routines from raw sensorimotor experience. Experiments show that the learned versions of the motor routines outper...

1. Preliminaries In general, for languages which allow a flexible order of major constituents, the grammatical variations of simple sentences are truth-conditionally equivalent regardless of the constituent sequences and of the intonational patterns. In Spanish, for instance, the six logically possible variations of sentences containing three constituents, namely, subject, verb, and object are ...

In Chinese language processing, the recognition and analysis for serial verb constructions (SVCs) is a fascinating research topic. Chinese language researchers each may have a different definition and interpretation of SVC since the structure of SVC makes Chinese unique to other languages and contains complex semantic and pragmatic information. This paper proposes a formal definition of SVC and...

We examine a popular practitioner methodology used in the construction of linear factor models whereby particular factors are increased or decreased in relative importance within the model. This allows model builders to customise models and, as such, reflect those factors that the client and modeller may think important. We call this process Pragmatic Bayesianism (or prag-Bayes for short) and w...

In natural communication, humans enrich their utterances with pragmatic information indicating, e.g., what is important to them or what they are not certain about. We investigate whether and how virtual humans (VH) can employ this kind of meta-communication. In an empirical study we have identified three modifying functions that humans produce and perceive in multimodal utterance, one being to ...

This paper describes the design and implementation of three core factorization routines | LU, QR and Cholesky | included in the out-of-core extension of ScaLAPACK. These routines allow the factorization and solution of a dense system that is too large to t entirely in physical memory. An image of the full matrix is maintained on disk and the factorization routines transfer sub-matrices into mem...