La préférence masculine

Combinaison de fonctions de préférence par boosting pour la recherche de passages dans les systèmes de question/réponse

Résumé. Nous proposons une méthode d’apprentissage automatique pour la sélection de passages susceptibles de contenir la réponse à une question dans les systèmes de Question-Réponse (QR). Les systèmes de RI ad hoc ne sont pas adaptés à cette tâche car les passages recherchés ne doivent pas uniquement traiter du même sujet que la question mais en plus contenir sa réponse. Pour traiter ce problèm...

Masculine Law Firms

Creating the Masculine Self

We create our masculine selves by self-reflection in which other people, predominantly our partners, peers, and friends, play a central part. Masculinity has two factors: strength and quality. Strength is determined by a person’s self-reflection: the effectiveness and effort to invest time in his search for cultural resources of masculinity, and his ability to employ conductive resources in his...

Making Programming Masculine

In the April 1967 issue of Cosmopolitanmagazine, sandwiched between such conventional women’s magazine fare as “ e Bachelor Girls of Japan” and “A Dog Speaks: Why a Girl Should Own a Pooch,” appeared a curious little essay entitled simply “ e Computer Girls.” e “computer girls,” as the article explained, were the female “computer programmers” who taught the dazzling new “miracle machines” calle...

Masculine men articulate less clearly.

In previous research, acoustic characteristics of the male voice have been shown to signal various aspects of mate quality and threat potential. But the human voice is also a medium of linguistic communication. The present study explores whether physical and vocal indicators of male mate quality and threat potential are linked to effective communicative behaviors such as vowel differentiation a...