Building the Sustainable Library at Macquarie University

Macquarie University ResearchOnline

Childhood sleep problems have been associated with a range of adverse cognitive and academic outcomes, as well as increased impulsivity and emotional disorders such as anxiety and depression. The aim of the study was to examine subjective reports of sleeprelated problems in children with anxiety disorders during school and weekend nights. Thirty-seven children with clinically-diagnosed anxiety ...

Macquarie University ResearchOnline

Macquarie University ResearchOnline

In their pursuit of adaptively biased misbelief-making systems, McKay & Dennett (M&D) describe a putative doxastic shear-pin system which enables misbeliefs to form in situations of extreme psychological stress. Rather than discussing their argument, I consider how this shear-pin system might combine with both pathological belief-making (“culpable” breakdowns caused by neuropathy) and normal be...

Macquarie University at DUC 2006: Question Answering for Summarisation

We present an approach to summarisation based on the use of a question answering system to select the most relevant sentences. We used AnswerFinder, a question answering system that is being developed at Macquarie University. The sentences returned by AnswerFinder are further re-ranked and collated to produce the final summary. This system will serve as a baseline upon which we intend to develo...

Lareau CLT , Macquarie University Sydney , Australia francois

Importing key concepts from explanatory combinatorial lexicology, we revisit the notion of grammeme and show that it is an entity of the same level of abstraction as a vocable. Grammemes are polysemic and one of their acceptations is the basic one from which the others are derived. We propose criteria to identify it, and show how it can be used to guide the grouping of grammemes into inflection...