Contextuality in quantum physics provides a key resource for quantum information and computation. The topological approach in [3, 2] characterizes contextuality as “global inconsistency” coupled with “local consistency”, revealing it to be a phenomenon also found in many other fields. This has yielded a logical method of detecting and proving the “global inconsistency” part of contextuality. Ou...

The spectrum of formality, in particular lexical formality, has been relatively unexplored compared to related work in sentiment lexicon induction (Turney and Littman, 2003). In this paper, we test in some detail several corpus-based methods for deriving real-valued formality lexicons, and evaluate our lexicons using relative formality judgments between word pairs. The results of our evaluation...

In this paper we discuss the use of quantum mechanics to model psychological experiments, starting by sharply contrasting the need of these models to use quantum mechanical nonlocality instead of contextuality. We argue that contextuality, in the form of quantum interference, is the only relevant quantum feature used. Nonlocality does not play a role in those models. Since contextuality is also...

Non-locality and contextuality are among the most counterintuitive aspects of quantum theory. They are difficult to study using classical logic and probability theory. In this paper we start with an effect algebraic approach to the study of non-locality and contextuality. We will see how different slices over the category of set valued functors on the natural numbers induce different settings i...

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Formality is an important dimension of language style. Texts of different genres tend to have different degrees of formality. F-score (formality-score) is a most popular measure for formality to differ genres. It uses a method of combining proportions of words of different types, with nouns, adjectives, articles and prepositions as positive elements, and adverbs, verbs and interjections as nega...