Since their advent, geographies of religions have emerged as a kaleidoscopic, vital, yet often misunderstood subset social and cultural geography. In this article, I respond to Kong's call (2010) for geographers turn the neglected functional, mythic, symbolic dimensions religion. First, offer brief disciplinary biography, outlining seminal currents research over past century. doing so, identify...

The Zen koan is mysterious to many and its significance remains disputed by scholars. Is it a challenging therapeutic device, to be left behind like a raft after crossing the river, or a self-transparent statement of the liberated mind? Is it a logic-defying paradox or does it have its own performative rationality? Is it a spontaneous and often irreverent oral expression or a complex and staged...

For a brief period, discourses of feminism were brought into discussions the British royal family through figure Meghan Markle. Such conjuncture demands closer look at monarchy's relationship to feminism. This article considers ‘feminist princess’ in context an inherently antifeminist institution and alongside deeply ‘wayward prince’ - both specifically case sexual abuse accusations against Pri...

This paper proposes an evaluation scheme to measure the performance of a system that detects hierarchical event structure for event coreference resolution. We show that each system output is represented as a forest of unordered trees, and introduce the notion of conceptual event hierarchy to simplify the evaluation process. We enumerate the desiderata for a similarity metric to measure the syst...

The NLToolset has been used to build a variety of information extraction applications, ranging from military message traffic to newswire accounts of corporate activity. AATM7 is an acronym for As Applied To MUC-7. AATM7 was not tailored specifically for MUC-7, but rather represents the NLToolset in a state of flux, as TIPSTER experimentation and the delivery of a real-world application were tak...

The session on Natural Language Evaluation focused on methods for evaluating text understanding systems. Beginning with the first Message Understanding Conference (MUCK-l) in 1987, there has been increasing focus on how to measure and evaluate text understanding systems. The MUCK-1 conference required developers to port their system to a common domain of Navy intelligence messages; MUCK-2 (May ...

BACKGROUND Serious games are motivating and provide a safe environment for students to learn from their mistakes without experiencing any negative consequences from their actions. However, little is known about students' gaming preferences and the types of serious games they like to play for education. OBJECTIVE This study aims to determine the types of gaming aspects that students would like...

Taking as its starting point a 1978 article by film critic Molly Haskell, in which she described Gérard Depardieu “tactile […] grasping, eating, touching, coming to physical terms with everything sight”, this considers largely overlooked role, the committed revolutionary leader Georges Danton Andrzej Wajda’s (1983)—a historical role that reflects actor’s commitment relevance of Revolutionary po...

The brain representations of words and their referent actions and objects appear to be strongly coupled neuronal assemblies distributed over several cortical areas. In this work we describe the implementation of a cell assembly-based model of several visual, language, planning, and motor areas to enable a robot to understand and react to simple spoken commands. The essential idea is that differ...