Almost a Family, Practically Related: Questions on Sumerian Kinship Terminology

African Family and Kinship

A psychosocial kinship model for family therapy.

Family therapy has traditionally centered on the nuclear family and thus has been typically oriented toward urban white middle-class families. A variety of modifications in therapeutic technique has evolved for work with the many modern families whose structure consists of a functional psychosocial family kinship. The authors have developed a formal theoretical framework and model for family th...

Computer Enumeration of Significant Implicational Universals of Kinship Terminology

The discovery of general patterns and their subsequent explanation is a familiar method in linguistics and other cross-cultural research. This paper addresses the computerized enumeration of significant cultural and linguistic patterns, specifically implicational universals. We dispute published suggestions that the mechanical generation of universals is inadvisable, by arguing that such claims...

A Practically Unsupervised Learning Method to Identify Single-Snippet Answers to Definition Questions on the Web

We present a practically unsupervised learning method to produce single-snippet answers to definition questions in question answering systems that supplement Web search engines. The method exploits on-line encyclopedias and dictionaries to generate automatically an arbitrarily large number of positive and negative definition examples, which are then used to train an SVM to separate the two clas...

Panel on \ Knowledge Compilation and Approximation " : Terminology , Questions

It is well known that problems in Logic, Automated Deduction and Artiicial Intelligence are very much demanding from the computational point of view. Two of the techniques that have been proposed for addressing such computational diiculties are Knowledge Compilation and Knowledge Approximation. The central idea of the former technique is to split the goal of answering to the question whether a ...