Did He Mean It?

Did He Jump or Was He Pushed? Abductive Practical Reasoning

In this paper we present an approach to abductive reasoning in law by examining it in the context of an argumentation scheme for practical reasoning. We present a particular scheme, based on an established scheme for practical reasoning, that can be used to reason abductively about how an agent might have acted to reach a particular scenario, and the motivations for doing so. Plausibility here ...

What does he mean?

Empirical results on the meaning of accented pronouns often conflict. This is a problem for formal semantic models. In this paper, we intend to broaden the empirical basis of two of these models. First, in a corpus study, we checked whether properties of the antecedent influence whether a pronoun is be accented. We found that pronouns with NP antecedents are more likely to be accented than thos...

Which Annotation did you mean?

Ontologies are widely used to create biomedical annotations. Considerable effort goes into curation of publications to create annotations of genes and gene products as well as in the annotation of data sets. However, ‘annotation’ has different meanings in these two contexts, leading to enormous confusion within the bioinformatics community. In this work, we delineate the two meanings of annotat...

The Hippi did it

and colleagues have identified a protein called Hippi as one possible mediator of Huntington disease (HD) neuronal cell death. HD begins with expansion of the polyglutamine repeats in the huntingtin protein (Htt). This frees up Hip1 protein, which normally binds to Htt. Free Hip1 can then bind to the Hippi protein identified by Nicholson, and the two proteins join in a complex with procaspase 8...

It shouldn't have happened, but it did.