The ability to make informative comparisons is central to human cognition. Comparison involves aligning two representations and placing their elements into correspondence. Detecting correspondences is a necessary component of analogical inference, recognition, categorization, schema formation, and similarity judgment. Connectionist Analogy Builder (CAB) determines correspondences through a simp...

syntax trees, relationships, as well as the basic types like Booleans, integers and strings. It should allow the environment builder to de ne new types and modify existing types. All the three surveyed systems have prede ned types and support de nitions of other types. In the remainder of this section, we concentrate on issues related to the modi cation of existing types. The object types in a ...

In this paper we consider corpora as a set of XML documents. The guidelines for the creation of the corpora determine the semantics of the data, stored in them. Usually the guidelines prescribe the actual structure of the corpora, the used symbols, their meaning and the relations among them. Ideally, the software supporting the creation of a corpus has to allow all the constraints that follow f...

Grainger’s Free Music remains a rich source of discovery for contemporary Australian musicians. Free Music represents a significant departure point for electronic musicians and instrument makers searching for new musical language, form and expression. This paper presents research undertaken by the Bent Leather Band exploring Grainger’s Free Music ideas within a 21 century music-making context e...

This paper describes the use of Tcl and Tk to implement a \soft" or generic GUI for real time control systems. UCO/Lick Observatory is using Tcl/Tk in conjunction with a relational database to implement a suite of code for instrument control and observing at Keck Observatory. One Tcl/Tk application serves as both the GUI builder and the GUI. It relies on information from an authoritative databa...