The nature of the information retained from previously fixated (and hence attended) objects in natural scenes was investigated. In a saccade-contingent change paradigm, participants successfully detected type and token changes (Experiment 1) or token and rotation changes (Experiment 2) to a target object when the object had been previously attended but was no longer within the focus of attentio...

The lack of high-quality in situ surface precipitation data over the global ocean so far limits the capability to validate satellite precipitation retrievals. The first systematic ship-based surface precipitation data set OceanRAIN (Ocean Rainfall And Ice-phase precipitation measurement Network) aims at providing a comprehensive statistical basis of in situ precipitation reference data from opt...

Extracting time expressions from free text is a fundamental task for many applications. We analyze time expressions from four different datasets and find that only a small group of words are used to express time information and that the words in time expressions demonstrate similar syntactic behaviour. Based on the findings, we propose a type-based approach named SynTime1 for time expression re...

Information Systems researchers often study artifacts in light of their purpose, use, and effects. Their research is often conducted relying on a socio-technical or sociomaterial based ontology. For these realism-based approaches, ever-present security vulnerabilities, conflate the properties of the digital artifact making it impossible to conceive of a universal artifact. This paper explores h...

We introduce low-ASA residue pairs as classification features for distinguishing the different types of protein interactions. A low-ASA residue pair is defined as two contact residues each from one chain that have a small solvent accessible surface area (ASA). This notion of residue pairs is novel as it first combines residue pairs with the O-ring theory, an influential proposition stating that...

It has often been argued that the (type or token) frequency of an affix in the lexicon cannot be used to predict the degree to which that affix is productive. Affix type frequency refers to the number of different words which contain an affix, token frequency refers to the summed lexical frequency of those words. The observation that neither of these counts relates straightforwardly to producti...

Although various theories of conceptual combination have been proposed in the past, these models have addressed interpretation issues rather than addressing the circumstances in which combinations are used. As a result, existing theories make no explicit predictions about what kind of nouns will be used more often in combination and why this might be the case. In this study we address the issue...

This paper presents a method to automatically acquire a given noun’s telic and agentive roles from corpus data. These relations form part of the qualia structure assumed in the generative lexicon, where the telic role represents a typical purpose of the entity and the agentive role represents the origin of the entity. Our proposed method employs a supervised machine-learning technique which mak...

Let A be a finite alphabet and let DcA * be a finite set of words to be labelled "dirty". Let {Xa: a E A} be commuting indeterminates. To every letter a E A we assign the weight Xa and the weight of a word is the product of the weights of its letters. For example, weight (13221) = X1X3X2X2X1 = XiX~X3. Given any set S of words we let weight (S) be the sum of the weights of the members of S. For ...