I consider an argument, due to Geoffrey Lee, that we can know a priori from the leftright asymmetrical character of experience that our brains are left-right asymmetrical. Lee’s argument assumes a premise he calls relationism, which I show is well-supported by the best philosophical picture of spacetime. I explain why Lee’s relationism is compatible with left-right asymmetrical laws. I then sho...

AbstractIn the present study, attempt has been made to examine the effectiveness of peer and teacher scaffolding in reading comprehension of intermediate EFL students in symmetrical and asymmetrical groups. To do so, sixty intermediate students were purposively selected out of 150 intermediate students in Hamadan Islamic Azad University and Kish Language Institute in Hamadan. They were divided ...

We address the problem of unsupervised and language-pair independent alignment of symmetrical and asymmetrical parallel corpora. Asymmetrical parallel corpora contain a large proportion of 1-to-0/0-to-1 and 1-to-many/many-to-1 sentence correspondences. We have developed a novel approach which is fast and allows us to achieve high accuracy in terms of F1 for the alignment of both asymmetrical an...

On the World Wide Web, page previews augment hyperlinks to provide extra information about each link’s destination. These previews can reduce navigation time and errors in goal-directed navigation tasks when the information provided by the text and context of links is inadequate. A number of different types of page previews have been proposed, and some are already in use; however, little is kno...

Knowledge work is frequently interrupted. Interruptions enable collaboration and bring timely information, but they disrupt the fragile context of ongoing activities. Computers, now ubiquitous in knowledge work, have improved in their ability to track and restore digital context (documents and files), but they do a poor job of helping users restore mental context: the ideas, intentions, and mot...

The number of uploading video clips to video sharing Web sites has been explosively increasing. Then, it is not easy for users to find their preferable video clip. In this paper, we propose several methods to generate a fifteen-second thumbnail video clip from an original video clip based on analysis of viewer’s responses and analysis of audio features. We clear the advantage and characteristic...