Gold (Allen, Gina)

The GINA Interface Builder

As part of the GINA project at GMD, an interface builder has been implemented that can be used to interactively develop graphical user interfaces based on the OSF/Motif toolkit. The interface builder extensively uses direct-manipulation techniques to facilitate explorative learning and to accelerate the definition process. It provides special support for the dynamic layout capabilities of Motif...

GINA, genism, and civil rights.

Culminating its 13-year legislative gestation, The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), was signed by President George W. Bush on May 21, 2008. GINA is the first major federal law to come out of the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) portion of the Human Genome Project. The passage of GINA has been widely celebrated. For the genetic research community, the act was sought...

GINA and preemployment criminal background checks.

Gina Macdonald and Andrew Macdonald

Timothy Corrigan has argued that the relationship between the two media of film and literature has “a history of ambivalence, confrontation, and mutual dependence,”1 succinctly summing up the range of critical reaction to film productions of Jane Austen novels. The “mutual dependence” is evident: Austen films have brought her novels a far wider readership than she herself could have imagined. U...

Personal Statement for Gina - Anne Levow

My research is strongly interdisciplinary, drawing on methods from computer science to investigate fundamental linguistic questions and applying findings from linguistics to develop improved techniques for automatic computational understanding of natural language. My research lies at the intersection of computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), and spoken language processing...