NEUROSCIENCE: Fox Hunting

Hunting Answers with RAPOSA (FOX)

In this paper, we will present RAPOSA, an early prototype of a question answering system for Portuguese that heavily relies on a named-entity recognition (NER) system to discover answers for several types of factoid and simple definition questions. We will describe the architecture of RAPOSA and explain the role of the NER system in the question answering procedure. We will also compare and dis...

HTLV-I, Tax: fox hunting still allowed.

HTLV-1–associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) develops in a subset of human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I)–infected individuals.1 Its evolution is chronic and progressive, without remission.2 Recently, a study using a histone deacetylase inhibitor reported, for the first time, a spectacular decline in the HTLV-I proviral load in a series of HAM/TSP patients.3 Unfortu...

British hunting ban had no effect on fox numbers

Hunting the Fox of Word Learning: Why ‘‘Constraints’’ Fail to Capture It

It is often asserted that young children’s word learning is guided by constraints or internal biases. Constraints are broadly described as ‘‘any factor that favors some possibilities over others’’ (Medin et al., 1990). Researchers have argued that specialized lexical constraints cause children to make some inferences about word meanings before others. An analysis shows that the concept constrai...

Mutualistic hunting

The cooperative acquisition, defense and distribution of meat are common problems that must be solved by social hunters. These were also problems faced by any of our hominid ancestors that may have hunted large game in our evolutionary past. Much of the last 40 years of research in evolutionary ecology has tried to understand such cooperative behavior. The classic Prisoner's Dilemma game theory...