If You Have it — Flaunt it

If You Have It, Flaunt It: Using Full Ontological Knowledge for Word Sense Disambiguation

Word sense disambiguation continues to be a difficult problem in natural language processing. Current methods, such as marker passing and spreading activation, for applying world knowledge in the form of selectional preferences to solve this problem do not make effective use of available knowledge. Moreover, their effectiveness decreases as the knowledge is made richer by acquiring more and mor...

Signal residuals and hermit crab displays: flaunt it if you have it!

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If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It: Humans Flaunt Attractive Partners to Enhance Their Status and Desirability

Mating decisions are influenced by conspecifics' mate choices in many species including humans. Recent research has shown that women are more attracted to men with attractive putative partners than those with less attractive partners. We integrate these findings with traditional accounts of social signaling and test five hypotheses derived from it. In our study, 64 men and 75 women were paired ...

"If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it".

If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It

Start of the lab: 2006 Size of the lab: Currently ten—size has fluctuated between five and 20 Research field: Systems and synthetic biology In 2005, I was working in the bioinformatics group of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a subsidiary of DuPont. The company was downsizing its research and development effort. At the same time, synthetic biology was emerging as a new discipline, and I wanted t...