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Sense tagging: does it make sense?

Sense tagging is probably one of the challenges that corpus linguists have to face in the near future. So far, computerisation of this task has yielded very modest results despite numerous efforts, and sense tagging is turning out to be a touchy task. Difficulties stem from various sources, extracting disambiguating information from the context. However, one of the main problems that lies upstr...

One-Phase Commit: Does it make Sense?

1 Although widely used in distributed transactional systems, the so-called Two-Phase Commit (2PC) protocol introduces a substantial delay in transaction processing, even in the absence of failures. This has led several researchers to look for alternative commit protocols that minimize the time cost associated with coordination messages and forced log writes in 2PC. In particular, variations of ...

It just doesn't make good business sense.

Boolean Coherence: Does it make sense?

We continually face the problem of making sense of the world by resolving conflicting reports from multiple sources of information. This is particularly so if we attempt to formulate Qualitative Safety1 Arguments. Traditional logic offers little to assist in this process. In every day reasoning we usually assume that, without information to the contrary, we should use all information from all s...

Predisease: when does it make sense?

Screening often leads to finding conditions that are not at the stage or level that would classify them as disease but, at the same time, are not at a stage or level at which people can be declared entirely disease free. These "in-between" states have sometimes been designated as "predisease." Examples include precancerous lesions, increased intraocular pressure ("preglaucoma"), prediabetes, an...