Robert Bellah’s article “Community Properly Understood…” is critical of the conventional conception community as a product consensus established by shared values and goals among people common social reality. The need for such approach arguably encouraged rather imprecise deployment notion in vast communitarian literature, which truly raises issues concern over what term ‘community’ really means...

This paper is about language understanding using Belief Networks. Language understanding is a key technology in human-computer conversational systems. These systems often need to handle information-seeking queries from the user regarding a restricted domain. We devised a method for identifying the user’s communicative goal(s) out of a finite set of within-domain goals. The problem is formulated...

The strategy of intellectual collaboration has accelerated modern research and research success. Identified by Professor Robert Adams in 2013 as the Fourth Age of Research collaboration is evident through ever increasing numbers of international multicenter publications. These tend to provide positive benefits in terms of citation; indeed Universities with a lower percentage of home grown paper...

Various recent studies have claimed that children have difficulty using contrastive stress in language comprehension (Solan, 1980; Gualmini et al., 2003; McDaniel et al., 1992; Reinhart, 1999, 2004) and that failure to access alternatives generated by focus may create problems for interpreting sentences with only (Paterson et al., 2003). Other researchers have shown that children also have diff...

This paper describes ARCHIMEDES-STUDENT, a computer program that constructs and modifies its own representations of diagrams from instructions supplied by a human who is demonstrating a theorem of geometry. The program’s representation permits it to make inferences from its constructions and to find a justification for the conclusion of the theorem. It is argued that the sort of perceptual reas...

The question how intentional action is concretely realized is not only a key question in quantum consciousness theory but also in attempts to understand psychokinesis (PK). In TGD framework the mechanisms of intentional action and PK are basically the same, and the article can be seen also as a proposal for how intentional action might be realized in TGD Universe. There are experimental results...

In this paper, we propose a unified framework for the syntactico-semantic learning of natural languages. This framework integrates recent results on grammatical inference with positive structural examples and an algebraic characterization of the Principle of Compositionality, introduced by linguists and logicians. The purpose is to give account of how children learn to understand their native l...