A Good Reminder for Common Sense Approaches

Common sense approaches to urinary biomarker study design.

Since ancient times, physicians have studied the properties of urine to provide clues to the nature of the their patients’ maladies. For example, ancient physicians knew that urine from patients with diabetes is sweet to the taste. The discoveries of such properties were obviously made before disease mechanisms were understood. In modern times, clinicians have added many measurements of urinary...

Taming Sense Sparsity: a Common-Sense Approach

English. We present a novel algorithm and a linguistic resource named CLOSEST after ‘Common SEnse STrainer’. The resource contains a list of the main senses associated to a given term, and it was obtained by applying a simple set of pruning heuristics to the senses provided in the NASARI vectors for the set of 15K most frequent English terms. The preliminary experimentation provided encouraging...

Presupposition Accommodation: A Plea for Common Sense

Employee attendance: good policy makes good sense

Common Sense

I like your columns, but they’re really all just common sense,” a client told me. He didn’t have a software background, and my columns were his first introduction to systematic ways of understanding software projects. To my chagrin, the net effect of a well-written column appeared to be that he thought software engineering was trivial! The idea that good software engineering “is all just common...