Consider some facts: water contains hydrogen, my colleague’s cat is alive, diamond is harder than granite, I prefer oatmeal to brussels sprouts, Beijing has over 14 million inhabitants, interest rates are low. These chemical, biological, geological, psychological, sociological, and economic facts all appear to rest on further facts. Facts involving cities, e.g., the fact that Beijing has over 1...

We propose a novel framework for improving a word segmenter using information acquired from symbol grounding. We generate a term dictionary in three steps: generating a pseudo-stochastically segmented corpus, building a symbol grounding model to enumerate word candidates, and filtering them according to the grounding scores. We applied our method to game records of Japanese chess with commentar...

This paper proposes a method for dealing with repairs in action control dialogue to resolve participants’ misunderstanding. The proposed method identifies the repair target based on common grounding rather than surface expressions. We extend Traum’s grounding act model by introducing degree of groundedness, and partial and mid-discourse unit grounding. This paper contributes to achieving more n...

Over the last few decades, different studies have been directed toward a better understanding of how humans use perceptual information in order to estimate magnitudes. Converging data from different research domains indicate that the processing of time, space, and other quantities frequently unfold together in the human brain and cognition. The idea of a common metric that regulates the ability...

OBJECTIVE To investigate long-term trends in mortality rates for accidents to fishing vessels in the UK fishing industry from 1948 to 2008; to investigate the circumstances and causes of these fishing vessel accidents and trends in fishing vessel losses. MATERIAL AND METHODS Examination of paper death inquiry files, death registers, marine accident investigative files, annual casualty and dea...