Fluent API is an object-oriented pattern for elegant APIs and embedded DSLs. A smart fluent can enforce the protocol or DSL syntax at compile time. Since implementations typically rely on overloading function names, they are hard to realize in functional programming languages. This work shows how be implemented absence of name overloading, by relying parametric polymorphism Hindley-Milner type ...

In this paper, we make use of a meta-logical representation based on the Kowalski and Sergot's Event Calculus in order to integrate the discrete uent logic (DFL) proposed in Features & Fluents by Erik Sandewall, into a logic programming (LP) setting. As result of this attempt we obtain an extended LP-based language that we call Fluent Logic Programming (FLP). Completeness result are shown with ...

The ability to distinguish fluent from disfluent speech could play an important role in infants’ acquisition of their first language. Across two experiments using a Headturn Preference Procedure, we show that infants are able to distinguish fluent from disfluent speech based on its prosodic characteristics, and show a preference for listening to fluent English. In the first experiment, 22-month...

This paper develops a solution to the analogue of the frame problem that arises when the belief state of an agent is axiomatized in the presence of belief changing actions. It follows the work of Scherl and Levesque which adapted the approach to the frame problem of Reiter to the case of the analogue of the frame problem that arises when knowledge and knowledge producing actions are added to th...

Fluent merging is the process of combining two or more fluents (state variables) into a single “super” fluent. By compiling in some of the inter-fluent interactions, fluent merging can (1) help improve informedness of relaxed reachability heuristics, and (2) improve the efficiency of factored planning as it removes some of the intervariable dependencies. Although some special cases of fluent me...

The aim of this study is to determine whether fluent and non-fluent aphasics preserve the acoustic marks of lexical stress in a repetition task involving regular oxytone and paroxytone disyllabic Spanish words in isolation. Acoustic analyses of each syllable (duration, F0, intensity) were performed. These data were then subjected to mixed-effects regression analyses, separately for oxytones and...

Kohonen network was applied in the analysis of fluent and non-fluent utterances of any length. The input vector consisted of sound level values measured in dB(A) in 1/3-octave bands. Fragments of stuttering people’s and fluent speakers’ utterances were analysed. The optimum neural network was chosen of a 5×5 rectangle topology. Time arrangement of winner neurons in the network extracts single d...

Durative forces are introduced to Finite State Temporality (the application of Finite State Methods to Temporal Semantics). Punctual and durative forces are shown to have natural representations as fluents which place certain constraints on strings. These forces are related to previous work on stative explanations of aspectual classification. Given this extended ontology, it is shown how type c...