This paper is a reply to an accompanying set of six commentaries by Sidman; Hayes and Barnes; Schusterman, Kastak, and Reichmuth; Tonneau and Sokolowski; Lowenkron; and Moerk. Those commentaries were prompted by our article ‘‘On the Origins of Naming and Other Symbolic Behavior’’ (1996), which was, in turn, followed by 26 commentaries and a reply. In the course of the present reply, we further ...

In this paper we detail a proposal of exploitation of expertmade commentaries in a unified system for illuminated manuscripts images analysis. In particular we will explore the possibility to improve the automatic segmentation of meaningful pictures, as well as the retrieval by similarity search engine, using clusters of keywords extracted from commentaries as semantic information.

Abstract The author of Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars Bolsheviks (Cambridge University Press, 2019) responds to comments Michael David-Fox, Muireann Maguire, Kevin Platt, William Mills Todd, Olga Velikanova. He expresses appreciation for reflections provided elaborates on several points raised by commentators individually collectively: theoretical framing work importance agen...