Adam Smith's Library

The Same Face of the Two Smiths: Adam Smith and Vernon Smith

ADAM 10 ( ADAM metallopeptidase domain 10 )

How Many Different "John Smiths", and Who Are They?

In this work we propose three unsupervised measures to automatically identify the number of distinct entities a given ambiguous name refers to in a corpus. We experiment with 22 artificially created name conflations and observe that the measure (PK2) formulated as the ratio of two successive clustering criterion function values outperforms the other two measures. We also describe a method to as...

Adam Kilgarriff

A long time ago now (maybe 1988?), Gerald (Gazdar) and I supervised Adam’s DPhil at the University of Sussex. Adam was my age, give or take a year, having come to academia a little late, and was my first doctoral student. Adam’s topic was polysemy, and I’m not really sure that much supervision was actually required, though I recall fun exchanges trying to model the subtleties of word meaning us...

Adam Miklósi

An overview The picture that emerges when one looks at the global situation for funding in ecology and evolution is that, while all biological research is suffering, these fields are faring somewhat worse. Surprisingly, this is despite the fact that research in evolution and ecology will be vital if we are to stand a chance of solving the problem of increasing numbers of humans on a planet that...