J.S. Mill’s similarity method and difference method in the language of category theory

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 397-401
Author(s):  
A. V. Zhozhikashvili
Phonology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Keane ◽  
Zed Sevcikova Sehyr ◽  
Karen Emmorey ◽  
Diane Brentari

Following the Articulatory Model of Handshape (Keane 2014), which mathematically defines handshapes on the basis of joint angles, we propose two methods for calculating phonetic similarity: a contour difference method, which assesses the amount of change between handshapes within a fingerspelled word, and a positional similarity method, which compares similarity between pairs of letters in the same position across two fingerspelled words. Both methods are validated with psycholinguistic evidence based on similarity ratings by deaf signers. The results indicate that the positional similarity method more reliably predicts native signer intuition judgements about handshape similarity. This new similarity metric fills a gap in the literature (the lack of a theory-driven similarity metric) that has been empty since effectively the beginning of sign-language linguistics.


Author(s):  
Lucas Peixoto ◽  
Ane Lis Marocki ◽  
Celso Vieira Junior ◽  
Viviana Mariani

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shunsuke Ikeda ◽  
Miho Fuyama ◽  
Hayato Saigo ◽  
Tatsuji Takahashi

Machine learning techniques have realized some principal cognitive functionalities such as nonlinear generalization and causal model construction, as far as huge amount of data are available. A next frontier for cognitive modelling would be the ability of humans to transfer past knowledge to novel, ongoing experience, making analogies from the known to the unknown. Novel metaphor comprehension may be considered as an example of such transfer learning and analogical reasoning that can be empirically tested in a relatively straightforward way. Based on some concepts inherent in category theory, we implement a model of metaphor comprehension called the theory of indeterminate natural transformation (TINT), and test its descriptive validity of humans' metaphor comprehension. We simulate metaphor comprehension with two models: one being structure-ignoring, and the other being structure-respecting. The former is a sub-TINT model, while the latter is the minimal-TINT model. As the required input to the TINT models, we gathered the association data from human participants to construct the ``latent category'' for TINT, which is a complete weighted directed graph. To test the validity of metaphor comprehension by the TINT models, we conducted an experiment that examines how humans comprehend a metaphor. While the sub-TINT does not show any significant correlation, the minimal-TINT shows significant correlations with the human data. It suggests that we can capture metaphor comprehension processes in a quite bottom-up manner realized by TINT.


Author(s):  
А.М. Слиденко ◽  
В.М. Слиденко

Приводится анализ механических колебаний элементов ударного устройства с помощью модели стержневого типа. Ударник и инструмент связаны упругими и диссипативными элементами, которые имитируют их взаимодействие. Аналогично моделируется взаимодействие инструмента с рабочей средой. Сформулирована начально-краевая задача для системы двух волновых уравнений с учетом переменных поперечных сечений стержней. Площади поперечных сечений определяются параметрическими формулами при сохранении объемов стержней. Параметрические формулы позволяют получать различного вида зависимости площади поперечного сечения стержня от его длины. Начальные условия отражают физическую картину взаимодействия инструмента с ударником и рабочей средой. Краевые условия описывают контактные взаимодействия ударника с инструментом и последнего с рабочей средой. В качестве модельной задачи рассматривается соударение ударника и инструмента через элемент большой жесткости. Начально-краевая задача исследуется разностным методом. Проводится сравнение решений задачи, полученных с помощью двухслойной и трехслойной разностных схем. Такие схемы реализованы в общей компьютерной программе в системе Mathcad. Показано, что при вычислениях распределения нормальных напряжений по длине стержня лучшими свойствами относительно устойчивости обладает двухслойная схема The article gives the analysis of mechanical vibrations of the impact device elements using the model of the rod type. The hammer and the tool are connected by elastic and dissipative elements that simulate their interaction. The interaction of the tool with the processing medium is simulated in a similar way. An initial boundary-value problem is formulated for a system of two wave equations taking into account the variable cross sections of the rods. Cross-sectional areas are determined by parametric formulas maintaining the volume of the rods. Parametric formulas allow one to obtain various dependence types of the cross-sectional area of the rod on its length. The initial and boundary conditions reflect the physical phenomenon of the tool interaction with the processing medium, and also describe the contact interactions of the hammer with the tool. The impacting of the hammer and the tool through an element of high rigidity is considered as a model problem. To control the limiting values, the solution of the model problem by the Fourier method is used. The initial-boundary-value problem is investigated by the difference method. A comparison of solutions obtained for the two-layer and three-layer difference schemes is given. Such schemes are realized in a common computer program in the Mathcad. It is shown that the two-layer scheme has the best properties in relation to stability while calculating the distribution of normal voltage along the length of the rod


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