Humor identification is a hard natural language understanding problem. We identify a subproblem — the “that’s what she said” problem — with two distinguishing characteristics: (1) use of nouns that are euphemisms for sexually explicit nouns and (2) structure common in the erotic domain. We address this problem in a classification approach that includes features that model those two characterist...

* Institut national d’études démographiques. Sources: United Nations. population of 361 million and annual population growth of 1.25% (between 1941 and 1951). The government introduced a family planning programme to make cheap and effective contraception available to all categories of the population. Emphasis was also placed on raising the marriage age of girls in a bid to reduce fertility (the...

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing they said ...

I Introduction As our data will show, negative existential sentences containing so-called empty names evoke the same strong semantic intuitions in ordinary speakers and philosophers alike.

Implementation of practice guidelines is a beguilingly complex activity that requires attention to the task of clinicians, the constraints they face, and the social practice of medicine. Local clinical opinion leaders can accelerate the pace of change by encouraging early adoption and modeling new practices. "Tough love" approaches to guideline adoption have a role in raising the salience of th...

We tested a series of hypotheses derived from the view that allegations of resemblance of newborns are motivated responses to the problem of uncertain paternity. Paternal resemblance was alleged far more ofien than maternal resemblance by videotaped mothers immediately after birth and by questionnaire respondents (mothers, fathers, and relatives on both sides). This bias was evident for infants...

Responsibility was mine The decision to part with my baby girl was the most difficult one I have ever had to make. It took months of talking to myself at night, soul-searching and much heartache, until I arrived at my decision. Of course, welfare workers, almoners and the adoption society made every effort to help, to advise and so on, but the ultimate responsibility was mine and mine alone. If...

In his logic of conversation, Paul Grice made an important distinction between two kinds of act that speakers may perform when uttering a sentence and, correspondingly, two kinds or levels of speaker meaning: (i) saying, hence what is said, and (ii) implicating, hence what is implicated (implicature) (Grice 1975). The distinction between what is said and what is implicated can be seen as one in...

BACKGROUND Biological and technical advances have led to greatly increased research and development of cancer biomarkers. This overview lists some of the challenges and barriers to developing novel effective cancer biomarkers and enablers to facilitate cancer biomarker development. METHODS Current scientific literature regarding development of biomarkers for cancer and other diseases was revi...