My colleague Richard F. West and I began studies of context effects on the word recognition of children when we were both graduate students at the University of Michigan in the mid-i9705.At the time we were heavily influenced by the popular top-tiown models of the reading process.’ We fully expected to make an experimental mark by providing more rigorous confirmationsof the individual-differenc...

The paper investigates the logic underlying statements of the form “X counts as Y in context C” which are commonly considered to represent the paradigmatic syntax of constitutive rules, i.e., the nonregulative component of normative systems. The analytical thesis backing the whole work consists in interpreting such statements as contextual classifications. This reading of counts-as is thoroughl...

In this paper, we integrate the model-based tracking and local contexture (temporal and spatial) relaxation scheme into a MAP framework to track non-rigid objects such as human hands or faces. By combining them together, our algorithm is much more accurate and robust. The global shape model enables us to represent the dynamic and kinematic constraints. I t also helps us to get a better initial ...

We introduce a novel algorithmic approach to content recommendation based on adaptive clustering of exploration-exploitation (“bandit”) strategies. We provide a sharp regret analysis of this algorithm in a standard stochastic noise setting, demonstrate its scalability properties, and prove its effectiveness on a number of artificial and real-world datasets. Our experiments show a significant in...

Automatic classification of relief attributes into meaningful morphological units has a great potential within the field of geomorphology. When applying common classification algorithms such an iterative cluster analysis to relief data, the result is often a set of classes with a marked lack of coherence in geographical space. The scattering of classes occurs because there is an authentic overl...

This teaching case aims to contribute to understanding the phenomenon of Enterprise Systems (ES) implementations in universities. Through this case, students will gain understanding of the importance of ‘contextual elements’ for large scale information systems (IS) implementations, in particular ES. This teaching case illustrates how these contextual factors contribute to the success or failure...

Abstract This study uses acoustic energy measures for /b, d, g/ after /f, s, ∫, l, r/ in Catalan in order to test whether postconsonantal voiced stop lenition is ruled by minimization of articulatory effort, acoustico-perceptual continuity of an ongoing prosodic constituent or some other principle of articulatory organization. Data for eight speakers reveal that lenition is more prone to operat...

Previous research has found that people can use word-object co-occurrences from ambiguous situations to learn word meanings (e.g., Yu & Smith, 2007). However, most studies of cross-situational learning present an equal number of words and objects, which may simplify the problem by, for example, encouraging learners to use assumptions such as each word going with one object. This paper presents ...

this research compared ratings of task performance and contextual performance from three different sources: self, peer, and supervisor. participants were service industry employees in the service industries in yogyakarta, indonesia. a sample of 146 employees and 40 supervisors   from the service industries provided ratings of task performance and contextual performance. the results indicated th...