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The Compositional Nature of Event Representations in the Human Brain
(Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2014-07-14)
How does the human brain represent simple compositions of constituents: actors, verbs, objects, directions, and locations? Subjects viewed videos during neuroimaging (fMRI) sessions from which sentential descriptions of ...
Seeing What You’re Told: Sentence-Guided Activity Recognition In Video
(Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2014-05-29)
We present a system that demonstrates how the compositional structure of events, in concert with the compositional structure of language, can interplay with the underlying focusing mechanisms in video action recognition, ...
Reconstructing Native Language Typology from Foreign Language Usage
(Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2014-04-25)
Linguists and psychologists have long been studying cross-linguistic transfer, the influence of native language properties on linguistic performance in a foreign language. In this work we provide empirical evidence for ...
The Genesis Story Understanding and Story Telling System A 21st Century Step toward Artificial Intelligence
(Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), 2014-06-10)
Story understanding is an important differentiator of human intelligence, perhaps the most important differentiator. The Genesis system was built to model and explore aspects of story understanding using simply expressed, ...