Remarks by Julian Ku

Remarks on the article of Packard: Julian Huxley, Uca pugnax and the allometric method.

restudied Huxley's measurements of Uca pugnax and presented not only a two-parameter power function but also a three-parameter power function; this three-parameter model 'is better than the two-parameter model for describing the observations'. The two-parameter model has a biological meaning, as explained by Huxley (Huxley, 1924); the three-parameter model has no biological meaning. I have show...

Julian Steward

POWERS Julian

The Unitary Executive offers a powerful case for the historical pedigree of the unitary executive theory. Offering an account of presidential practice stemming from George Washington to George W. Bush, the book seeks to ground unitary executive theory with exhaustive historical evidence. Although the authors do not purport to present a history of the presidency, they do provide important and co...

Statement Julian

My mathematical research interests are in number theory and algebraic geometry. My thesis work concerns the arithmetic of a family of rational numbers known as multiple harmonic sums, which are truncated approximations of multiple zeta values. I explore new structures underlying relations involving multiple harmonic sums, p-adic L-values, Bernoulli numbers, and binomial coefficients. This is us...

KU: Word Sense Disambiguation by Substitution

Data sparsity is one of the main factors that make word sense disambiguation (WSD) difficult. To overcome this problem we need to find effective ways to use resources other than sense labeled data. In this paper I describe a WSD system that uses a statistical language model based on a large unannotated corpus. The model is used to evaluate the likelihood of various substitutes for a word in a g...