Ambiguous web search queries often only return results that correspond to the most popular meaning. This is a product of the way that search engines rank page results. This makes it difficult to find information about less popular meanings. This project attempts to provide a solution to this problem by allowing users to search through semantic clusters formed from an original search query. Thes...

The irrepressible Bernard E. Rollin has written a lively, provocative, and scholarly book on several pivotal bioethical issues in nonhuman animal research. Professor Rollin of Colorado State University asksand answers whether nonhuman animals think, feel, and suffer. Rollin asks whether the prevailing scientific justification for banning nonhuman animals is based on rational assessment of the i...

Humans have the capacity to draw commonsense inferences from natural language: various things that are likely but not certain to hold based on established discourse, and are rarely stated explicitly. We propose an evaluation of automated common-sense inference based on an extension of recognizing textual entailment: predicting ordinal human responses of subjective likelihood of an inference hol...

Any society goes through social movements or fads, in which economically useless things become valued or useful things devalued temporarily. Nowadays, when almost all societies on Earth are connected to each other, we cannot imagine a fad’s going so far that an important technology would actually be discarded. A society that temporarily turned against a powerful technology would continue to see...

The extraordinary impact of Thomas Paine's Common Sense has often been attributed to its style to the simplicity and forcefulness with which Paine expressed ideas that many others before him had expressed. Comparative analysis of Common Sense and other pre-Revolutionary pamphlets suggests that Common Sense was indeed stylistically unique; no other pamphleteer came close to matching Paine's comb...

Abstract In my paper, I start by providing a brief taxonomy of three types theories that conceptualize common sense. Thereby, differentiate between positive, negativist, and dualistic/dialectical By juxtaposing “good” form sense he calls buon senso “bad” comune Antonio Gramsci falls undoubtedly within the reach order to scrutinize Gramsci’s idiosyncratic conceptualization sense, turn Kate Creha...