This paper surveys two related lines of research: Logical characterizations of (non-deterministic) linear time complexity classes, and non-expressibility results concerning sublogics of existential second-order logic. Starting from Fagin's fundamental work there has been steady progress in both elds with the eeect that the weakest logics that are used in characterizations of linear time complex...

The main factor of intelligence is defined as the ability to comprehend, formalising this ability with the help of new constructs based on descriptional complexity. The result is a comprehension test, or C-test, which is exclusively defined in computational terms. Due to its absolute and non-anthropomorphic character, it is equally applicable to both humans and non-humans. Moreover, it correlat...

The descriptive complexity of a problem is the complexity of describing the problem in some logical formalism. One of the few techniques for proving separation results in descriptive complexity is to make use of games on graphs played between two players, called the spoiler and the duplicator. There are two types of these games, which differ in the order in which the spoiler and duplicator make...

This paper presents a way to perform speaker adaptation for automatic speech recognition using the stream weights in a multi-stream setup, which included acoustic models for “Articulatory Features” such as ROUNDED or VOICED. We present supervised speaker adaptation experiments on a spontaneous speech task and compare the above stream-based approach to conventional approaches, in which the model...

In this paper we show that C-k(X), the set of continuous, realvalued functions on X topologized by the pointwise convergence topology, can have arbitrarily high Borel or projective complexity in Rx even when X is a countable regular space with a unique limit point. In addition we show how to construct countable regular spaces X for which C-n(X) lies nowhere in the projective hierarchy of the co...

This is a pleading for Descriptive Geometry. From the very first, Descriptive Geometry is a method to study 3D geometry through 2D images thus offering insight into structure and metrical properties of spatial objects, processes and principles. The education in Descriptive Geometry provides a training of the students’ intellectual capability of space perception. Drawings are the guide to geomet...