Psychoanalytic theories of mind consist of comprehensive explanations of human behavior and motivation. Such theories seek to account for normal and abnormal development at both the population and individual levels, but these abstract and global ideas can seem distant from our personal, moment-by-moment, lived experience. Intersubjectivity theory has reformulated psychological concepts of why p...

According to Bruno de Finetti’s Representation Theorem, exchangeable beliefs over infinite sequences of observable Bernoulli quantities can be represented as mixtures of independent coin tossing experiments. Extensions of this theorem give rise to representations as mixtures of other familiar sampling distributions. This paper offers a subjectivist primer based on the premise that appreciation ...

We assume that in order to properly capture opinion and sentiment expressed in a text or dialog any system needs a deep text processing approach. In particular, the idea that the task may be solved by the use of Information Retrieval tools like Bag of Words Approaches (BOWs) is totally flawed. BOWs approaches are sometimes also camouflaged by a keyword based Ontology matching and Concept search...

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has been a subject of intensive research effort for more than a decade now. It differs from many of its neighboring research disciplines in computer vision due to one notable fact: human subjectivity cannot totally be isolated from the use and evaluation of CBIR systems. In addition, two more points make CBIR systems special. Opposed to such computer vision ...

We reduce the classification of all supersymmetric backgrounds of IIB supergravity to the evaluation of the Killing spinor equations and their integrability conditions, which contain the field equations, on five types of spinors. This extends the work of [hep-th/0503046] to IIB supergravity. We give the expressions of the Killing spinor equations on all five types of spinors. In this way, the K...

Subjectivity is discussed in the context of information processing, and its properties are considered in relation to Popper’s three Worlds model of information. The uncertainties that subjectivity creates are seen as central to some problematic issues of information handling, including classification and retrieval. An appreciation of problems relating to subjectivity also has relevance in sever...

We explore the relation between word sense subjectivity and cross-lingual lexical substitution, following the intuition that good substitutions will transfer a word’s (contextual) sentiment from the source language into the target language. Experiments on English-Chinese lexical substitution show that taking a word’s subjectivity into account can indeed improve performance. We also show that ju...