Common language

Common Data Language

Election officials are frequently locked into a single vendor’s product line by decisions made years and decades ago in their jurisdiction when the needs were different. The cost of converting the jurisdiction’s entire product line to another vendor and the top to bottom change in procedures often required is prohibitive. Election officials don’t have an opportunity to shop for the best product...

The Common Pattern Specification Language

This paper describes the Common Pattern Specification Language (CPSL) that was developed during the TIPSTER program by a committee of researchers from the TIPSTER research sites. Many information extraction systems work by matching regular expressions over the lexical features of input symbols. CPSL was designed as a language for specifying such finite-state grammars for the purpose of specifyi...

Ambiguous language and common priors

Standard economic models cannot capture the fact that information is often ambiguous, and is interpreted in multiple ways. Using a framework that distinguishes between the language in which statements are made and the interpretation of statements, we demonstrate that, unlike in the case where there is no ambiguity, players may come to have different beliefs starting from a common prior, even if...

Creating a common climate language.

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A Common Process Language Version