Some singular proposals

Some proposals for combining ensemble classifiers

Acknowledgements It is a great pleasure to thank those people whose company I enjoyed in my lovely PhD journey. It is difficult to overstate my gratitude to my friend and Ph.D. supervisor, Prof. Giuliano Armano. During these three years, he gave me an opportunity to learn not only how to be a thinker but most importantly be a life lover. Working with him was an honor which remains with me for e...

Some Singular Mixed Problems.

Mental incapacity: some proposals for legislative reform.

While the decision of the House of Lords in Re F in [1990] clarified somewhat the law concerning the treatment of the mentally incapacitated adult, many uncertainties remained. This paper explores proposals discussed in a recent government green paper for reform of the law in an area involving many difficult ethical dilemmas.

Some Proposals towards a More Rigorous Corpus

Over the past few decades, corpus linguistics has evolved into a fully-fledged methodological approach with an increasing number of scholars using various different methods. In this rather programmatic paper, I will argue, however, that corpus linguistics has, in some respects at least, still some way to go in terms of developing rigorous tools and methods and using them more often. More specif...

Comparing two partitions: Some Proposals and Experiments

We propose a methodology for finding the empirical distribution of the Rand’s measure of association when the two partitions only differ by chance. For that purpose we simulate data coming from a latent profile model and we partition them according to 2 groups of variables. We also study two other indices: the first is based on an adaptation of Mac Nemar’s test, the second being Jaccard’s index...