How might a novel play tennis? In New York Times essay on Roger Federer, David Foster Wallace reflects how the climactic topspin lob that won Wimbledon for Federer in 2006 was product of narrative, reliant sequence bluffs, building up to final unreturnable shot whose genius lay its ‘unimaginable angle.’ Tennis becomes fiction here, both sense is unreal and it Rafael Nadal’s imagination ultimate...

LOLITA is a large scale natural processing system written in the functional language Haskell. It consists of over 47,000 lines of code written over 180 dierent modules. There are currently 20 people working on the system, most of whom are Ph.D. students. The majority of research projects involve the development of an application which is written around a semantic network; the knowledge represe...

Agents in a multi-agent environment must often cooperate to achieve their objectives. In this paper an agent, B, cooperates with another agent, A, if B adopts a goal that furthers A's objectives in the environment. If agents are independent and motivated by their own interests, cooperation cannot be relied upon and it may be necessary for A to persuade B to adopt a cooperative goal. This paper ...

In his most famous novel, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov created one of the intricate, memorable, and maddening narrators in literature. By firmly positioning Humbert as a mis-handler fact purveyor own skewed perspective, encourages perceptive reader to reject narrator actively seek out truth story for themselves. Subtle yet undeniable clues (such holes narrative arguments, clear exaggeratio...