NESS, RALI’s summarization system for the TAC 2008’s update task, brings improvements and continuation to our last year’s “all-symbolic” approach. The most distinctive feature of our system is to rely on the syntactical parser FIPS to extract linguistic knowledge from source documents. NESS selects sentences based on linguistic metrics, especially tf · idf scores that measure the relevance of t...

In this paper, we provide a guideline for specifying compliance characteristics in the operational space of multingered hands. Through the analysis of the sti ness relation between the operational space and the ngertip space of multingered hands, it is shown that some of coupling sti ness elements cannot be planned arbitrary. And an independent nger-based compliance control method to achieve th...

The alleged for-me-ness or mineness of conscious experience has been the topic of considerable debate in recent phenomenology and philosophy of mind. By considering a series of objections to the notion of for-me-ness, or to a properly robust construal of it, this paper attempts to clarify to what the notion is committed and to what it is not committed. This exercise results in the emergence of ...

The present paper investigates the essentialist perception of social categories and differentiates it from two closely related concepts, namely entitativity and natural kind-ness. We argued that lay perceptions of social categories vary along three dimensions: natural kind-ness, entitativity, and essentialism. Depending on whether membership in social categories is forced or chosen, people deve...