To navigate many-to-many mappings between referents and linguistic expressions, listeners need to calibrate likelihood estimates for different referential expressions taking into account both the context and speaker-specific variation. Focusing on speaker variation, we present three experiments. Experiment 1 establishes that listeners generalize speakerspecific patterns of pre-nominal modificat...

Introduction: Otalgia is one of the complaints which may occur at any age. The etiology of the pain may be in the ear, structures around the ear or other head and neck structures. This is caused by the complex nervous connections in the head and neck areas, the ear, the pharynx and the nose. Since understanding the etiologies of referred otalgia can help in the assessment and treatment of the ...

One of the bottlenecks of current recognition (and graph matching) systems is their assumption of one-to-one feature (node) correspondence. This assumption breaks down in the generic object recognition task where, for example, a collection of features at one scale (in one image) may correspond to a single feature at a coarser scale (in the second image). Generic object recognition therefore req...