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Tagging time in prolog : the temporality effect project
This article combines a brief introduction into a particular philosophical theory of "time" with a demonstration of how this theory has been implemented in a Literary Studies oriented Humanities Computing project. The aim of the project was to create a model of text-based time cognition and design customized markup and text analysis tools that help to understand ‘‘how time works’’: more precisely, how narratively organised and communicated information motivates readers to generate the mental image of a chronologically organized world. The approach presented is based on the unitary model of time originally proposed by McTaggart, who distinguished between two perspectives onto time, the so-called A- and B-series. The first step towards a functional Humanities Computing implementation of this theoretical approach was the development of TempusMarker—a software tool providing automatic and semi-automatic markup routines for the tagging of temporal expressions in natural language texts. In the second step we discuss the principals underlying TempusParser—an analytical tool that can reconstruct temporal order in events by way of an algorithm-driven process of analysis and recombination of textual segments during which the "time stamp" of each segment as indicated by the temporal tags is interpreted
The Helstrom Bound
Quantum state discrimination between two wave functions on a ring is
considered. The optimal minimum-error probability is known to be given by the
Helstrom bound. A new strategy is introduced by inserting instantaneously two
impenetrable barriers dividing the ring into two chambers. In the process, the
candidate wave functions, as the insertion points become nodes, get entangled
with the barriers and can, if judiciously chosen, be distinguished with smaller
error probability. As a consequence, the Helstrom bound under idealised
conditions can be violated.Comment: 4 page
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