A growing body of work has highlighted the challenges of identifying the stance a speaker holds towards a particular topic, a task that involves identifying a holistic subjective disposition. We examine stance classification on a corpus of 4873 posts across 14 topics on ConvinceMe.net, ranging from the playful to the ideological. We show that ideological debates feature a greater share of rebut...

Acknowledgements: The authors were funded by an MRC Program Grant during the period of this work. The first author was additionally funded by a fellowship from the Cambridge Overseas Trust. We thank Chris Viger, Chris Westbury, and Chris Ashwin for helpful comments on an earlier draft.

Material and methods Twenty patients with hemiplegia due to vascular causes underwent gait analysis (by the F-Scan system). All patients had steady neurological status and were able to gait independently more than 8 m. The following vertical ground reaction force variables were measured: the first peak force during early stance(F1Y) and the percent stance at which it occurred(F1X); the second p...

• Linguistic: induce semantic frame and syntactic dependency-based patterns that aim to capture the meaning of a sentence and use them as features • Extra-linguistic: improve the classification of a test post by exploiting the information in other test posts that are likely to have the same stance Aim: improve a learner’s ability to generalize by inducing patterns based on semantic frames and u...

A survey has been carried out to establish information on foot loading in amputee stance. The parameters measured are percentage body weight and the positions of the centres of pressure under each foot. The data was collected in a clinical environment by the use of a Double Video Forceplate (DVF), a tool developed at the Bioengineering Centre. The objective of the survey is to provide backgroun...

The intentional stance is the strategy of prediction and explanation that attributes beliefs, desires, and other "intentional" states to systems living and nonliving and predicts future behavior from what it would be rational for an agent to do, given those beliefs and desires. Any system whose performance can be thus predicted and explained is an intentional system, whatever its innards . The ...