Creating common sense: getting NATO to Afghanistan

NATO in Afghanistan Evaluation of its Challeneges for Establishing the Security in an Islamic Country

Common Sense

I like your columns, but they’re really all just common sense,” a client told me. He didn’t have a software background, and my columns were his first introduction to systematic ways of understanding software projects. To my chagrin, the net effect of a well-written column appeared to be that he thought software engineering was trivial! The idea that good software engineering “is all just common...

Riposte : a common - sense approach to the use of common sense in EIA

• Wisdom — which comes from the accumulation of experience within a framework of EIA knowledge and understanding; • Creativity — the ability to produce new ideas and insights to address established or emerging challenges; • Innovation — the application of wisdom and creativity to make positive changes that resolve problems; • Courage — the mental or moral strength to remain true to our principl...

Getting Serious About Word Sense Disambiguation

Recent advances in large-scale, broad coverage part-of-speech tagging and syntactic parsing have been achieved in no small part due to the availability of large amounts of online, human-annotated corpora. In this paper, I argue that a large, human sensetagged corpus is also critical as well as necessary to achieve broad coverage, high accuracy word sense disambiguation, where the sense distinct...

Coarse Word-Sense Disambiguation Using Common Sense

Coarse word sense disambiguation (WSD) is an NLP task that is both important and practical: it aims to distinguish senses of a word that have very different meanings, while avoiding the complexity that comes from trying to finely distinguish every possible word sense. Reasoning techniques that make use of common sense information can help to solve theWSD problem by taking word meaning and conte...