C, honasky's proposition that language is handled hy a language-specific laeulty needs more justi|ieation. In language acquisition ill i)artieular, it is still in question whether the faculty is necessary or aot. We succeeded in explaining one eonstrainl oil language acquisition in terms of a general learning mechanism. This paper describes a mach ine learning s y s t e m Rhea applied to the do...

This paper presents a simple framework for Horn clause abduc tion with probabilities associated with hypotheses The framework incorporates assumptions about the rule base and independence as sumptions amongst hypotheses It is shown how any probabilistic knowledge representable in a discrete Bayesian belief network can be represented in this framework The main contribution is in nding a relation...

We explore an algebraic language for networks consisting of a xed number of reactive units, communicating synchronously over a xed linking structure. The language has only two operators: disjoint parallelism, where two networks are composed in parallel without any interconnections, and linking, where an interconnec-tion is formed between two ports. The intention is that these operators correspo...

Purpose: Recently, segmented 3D-EPI has been proposed for application of BOLD functional MRI at ultra-high fields such as 7 Tesla. Unfortunately, the statistical power, especially of 3D-EPI time series data, is limited by physiological noise (signal fluctuations due to breathing, etc.): with increasing base SNR the temporal SNR (tSNR=AVG/STD with respect to time) tends towards a constant value,...

The notion of integrated multilingualism is introduced as the basis for a novel approach to multilingual speech recog nition This approach enables training of the recognizer using the data from only source language s The trained recognizer is nevertheless deployable directly to new tar get languages The performance of the recognizer is incre mentally improved via a language adaptation strategy ...