In what follows I supplement my published reply (Strevens 2001) to Ahn et al.’s commentary (Ahn et al. 2001) on my paper concerning psychological essentialism (Strevens 2000). The supplementary comments come in three parts. First, I ask whether my alternative to psychological essentialism, which I call the minimal hypothesis, or minimalism for short, can explain certain experimental results of ...

[This article proposes a new approach to resolving a true conflict between the statutes of different states. It is commonly suggested that this type of conflict should be resolved by applying the statute of the state with the ‘closer connection’ to the dispute. However, states will not legislate unless they have a legitimate interest in the subject matter, so searching for the ‘closer connectio...

Discourse Relation Sense Classification is the classification task of assigning a sense to discourse relations, and is a part of the series of tasks in discourse parsing. This paper analyzes the characteristics of the data we work with and describes the system we submitted to the CoNLL2016 Shared Task. Our system uses two sets of two-step classifiers for Explicit and AltLex relations and Implic...

SITS (Scrutable Intelligent Teaching System) is designed to make use of existing learning items in flexible and effective learning interactions. The reuse of pre-existing resources is important since creating new learning resources is a time consuming task which requires a skilled author. The Internet also provides a large number of resources for reuse. A major hurdle for reuse is metadata, esp...