Some New Words found in papers

• tabula rasa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa)

In computer science, tabula rasa refers to the development of autonomous agents with a mechanism to reason and plan toward their goal, but no “built-in” knowledge-base of their environment. Thus they truly are a blank slate.

In reality autonomous agents possess an initial data-set or knowledge-base, but this cannot be immutable or it would hamper autonomy and heuristic ability.[citation needed] Even if the data-set is empty, it usually may be argued that there is a built-in bias in the reasoning and planning mechanisms.[citation needed] Either intentionally or unintentionally placed there by the human designer, it thus negates the true spirit of tabula rasa.[13]

A synthetic (programming) language parser (LR(1), LALR(1) or SLR(1), for example) could be considered a special case of a tabula rasa, as it is designed to accept any of a possibly infinite set of source language programs, within a single programming language, and to output either a good parse of the program, or a good machine language translation of the program, either of which represents a success, or, alternately, a failure, and nothing else. The “initial data-set” is a set of tables which are generally produced mechanically by a parser table generator, usually from a BNF representation of the source language, and represents a “table representation” of that single programming language.

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• Ad hoc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc)

  Ad hoc is a Latin phrase meaning “for this”. In English, it generally signifies a solution designed for a specific problem or task, non-generalizable, and not intended to be able to be adapted to other purposes

• Vice versa(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Versa)

Vice versa is a Latin phrase that means “the other way around”.