Disentanglement is a highly desirable property of representation owing to its similarity human understanding and reasoning. Many works achieve disentanglement upon information bottlenecks (IB). Despite their elegant mathematical foundations, the IB branch usually exhibits lower performance. In order provide an insight into problem, we develop annealing test calculate freezing point (IFP), which...

Solving the problem of consciousness remains one of the biggest challenges in modern science. One key step towards understanding consciousness is to empirically narrow down neural processes associated with the subjective experience of a particular content. To unravel these neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) a common scientific strategy is to compare perceptual conditions in which consciou...

We created 59 tactile melodies by transforming pieces of music from the auditory domain to the vibrotactile domain. Sixteen observers judged these tactile melodies on a set of 16 characteristics such as ‘melodious’, ‘bombastic’, and ‘alarming’. By using advanced multivariate statistical methods, we distilled two main underlying dimensions of the tactile melodies. We interpreted these dimensions...

In this paper, we describe a preliminary study for a discourse based opinion categorization and propose a new annotation schema for a deep contextual opinion analysis using discourse relations.

Suppose a domain expert gives us a domain theory which is meant to classify examples as positive or negative examples of some concept. Now suppose, as is often the case, that the expert speciies parts of the theory which might be in need of repair, as opposed to those parts of the theory which are certainly not in need of repair. We say that such a theory is partially mutable. There might be so...

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BACKGROUND Linkage studies often yield intervals containing several hundred positional candidate genes. Different manual or automatic approaches exist for the determination of the gene most likely to cause the disease. While the manual search is very flexible and takes advantage of the researchers' background knowledge and intuition, it may be very cumbersome to collect and study the relevant d...