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This paper presents a study of the metaphorism pattern of relational specification, showing how it can be refined into recursive programs. Metaphorisms express input-output relationships which preserve relevant information while at the same…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-27 J. N. Oliveira

In this paper, we give an overview of the semantic gap problem in multimedia and discuss how machine learning and symbolic AI can be combined to narrow this gap. We describe the gap in terms of a classical architecture for multimedia…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Marcio Ferreira Moreno , Guilherme Lima , Rodrigo Costa Mesquita Santos , Roberto Azevedo , Markus Endler

Identifying metaphors in text is very challenging and requires comprehending the underlying comparison. The automation of this cognitive process has gained wide attention lately. However, the majority of existing approaches concentrate on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Omnia Zayed , John P. McCrae , Paul Buitelaar

With the availability of large databases and recent improvements in deep learning methodology, the performance of AI systems is reaching or even exceeding the human level on an increasing number of complex tasks. Impressive examples of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Wojciech Samek , Thomas Wiegand , Klaus-Robert Müller

Although existing models can interact with humans and provide satisfactory responses, they lack the ability to act autonomously or engage in independent reasoning. Furthermore, input data in these models is typically provided as explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Slimane Larabi

Explanations have gained an increasing level of interest in the AI and Machine Learning (ML) communities in order to improve model transparency and allow users to form a mental model of a trained ML model. However, explanations can go…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Stefano Teso , Öznur Alkan , Wolfang Stammer , Elizabeth Daly

When constructing a Bayesian Machine Learning model, we might be faced with multiple different prior distributions and thus are required to properly consider them in a sensible manner in our model. While this situation is reasonably well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Sarem Seitz

Explainability is needed to establish confidence in machine learning results. Some explainable methods take a post hoc approach to explain the weights of machine learning models, others highlight areas of the input contributing to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Paul Whitten , Francis Wolff , Chris Papachristou

Humor, as both a creative human activity and a social binding mechanism, has long posed a major challenge for AI generation. Although producing humor requires complex cognitive reasoning and social understanding, theories of humor suggest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jiajun Zhang , Shijia Luo , Ruikang Zhang , Qi Su

Describing our interaction with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems as 'collaboration' is well-intentioned, but flawed. Not only is it misleading, but it also takes away the credit of AI 'labour' from the humans behind it, and erases and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Advait Sarkar

After the tremendous advances of deep learning and other AI methods, more attention is flowing into other properties of modern approaches, such as interpretability, fairness, etc. combined in frameworks like Responsible AI. Two research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Dominik Seuß

Machine learning models are increasingly integrated into societally critical applications such as recidivism prediction and medical diagnosis, thanks to their superior predictive power. In these applications, however, full automation is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Vivian Lai , Samuel Carton , Chenhao Tan

With the emergence of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) agents, it is important to understand the mechanisms that influence users' experiences of these agents. We study a common tool in the designer's toolkit: conceptual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Pranav Khadpe , Ranjay Krishna , Li Fei-Fei , Jeffrey Hancock , Michael Bernstein

We study the regime of anticipated synchronization recently described on a number of dynamical systems including chaotic and noisy ones. We use simple linear caricatures to show the minimal setups able to reproduce the basic facts…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-09-27 Oscar Calvo , Dante R. Chialvo , Victor M. Eguiluz , Claudio Mirasso , Raul Toral

Human languages are full of metaphorical expressions. Metaphors help people understand the world by connecting new concepts and domains to more familiar ones. Large pre-trained language models (PLMs) are therefore assumed to encode…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ehsan Aghazadeh , Mohsen Fayyaz , Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh

The ability to use symbols is the pinnacle of human intelligence, but has yet to be fully replicated in machines. Here we argue that the path towards symbolically fluent artificial intelligence (AI) begins with a reinterpretation of what…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Adam Santoro , Andrew Lampinen , Kory Mathewson , Timothy Lillicrap , David Raposo

There has been a recent resurgence in the area of explainable artificial intelligence as researchers and practitioners seek to make their algorithms more understandable. Much of this research is focused on explicitly explaining decisions or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Tim Miller

Parallel batched data structures are designed to process synchronized batches of operations in a parallel computing model. In this paper, we propose parallel combining, a technique that implements a concurrent data structure from a parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Vitaly Aksenov , Petr Kuznetsov , Anatoly Shalyto

Complex networks pervade various real-world systems, from the natural environment to human societies. The essence of these networks is in their ability to transition and evolve from microscopic disorder-where network topology and node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jingtao Ding , Chang Liu , Yu Zheng , Yunke Zhang , Zihan Yu , Ruikun Li , Hongyi Chen , Jinghua Piao , Huandong Wang , Jiazhen Liu , Yong Li

Metaphors are part of everyday language and shape the way in which we conceptualize the world. Moreover, they play a multifaceted role in communication, making their understanding and generation a challenging task for language models (LMs).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Gianluca Michelli , Xiaoyu Tong , Ekaterina Shutova