The Internet is a great source of human knowledge, but most of the information is in the form of unstructured text. In Natural Language Processing (NLP), we focus on adding structure to this text to uncover relevant information, and to use it in developing end-user application programs. To this end, my primary research goal is twofold: (i) developing NLP tools to automatically understand langua...

I must congratulate the organizers for choosing this important topic for deliberation in this seminar. I have great pleasure in mentioning that the theme of the Report on Currency and Finance 2004-05, prepared by the staff of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), is also that of evolution of Central Banking in India (RBI, 2005a). In going through the process of compilation of the Report, I have foun...

The central issue of this essay is whether contextualism in epistemology is genuinely in conflict with recent claims that ‘know’ is not in fact a contextsensitive word. To address this question, I will first rehearse three key aims of contextualists and the broad strategy they adopt for achieving them. I then introduce two linguistic arguments to the effect that the lexical item ‘know’ is not c...

Workplace bullying is repeated and prolonged hostile mistreatment of one or more people at work. It has tremendous potential to escalate, drawing in others beyond the initial actor-target relationship. Its effects can be devastating and widespread individually, organizationally and beyond. It is fundamentally a systemic phenomenon grounded in the organization’s culture. In this article, I ident...

Acknowledgements First I would like to acknowledge my lab mates Allison Vestaal-Laborde, Andrew Eschenroder and Manisha Magar, without whom I would have been lost in my journey through the creation of this thesis. More importantly they were always incredibly good at keeping me laughing through all the pitfalls encountered in gathering my data and trying to put it to paper. giving me guidance an...

The distribution of overlaps of solutions of a random constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is an indicator of the overall geometry of its solution space. For random k-SAT, nonrigorous methods from Statistical Physics support the validity of the one step replica symmetry breaking approach. Some of these predictions were rigorously confirmed in [Mézard et al. 2005a] [Mézard et al. 2005b]. There ...

Abstract In this short essay, I offer some reflections on language and sexuality work over the past decade. My discussion is focused increasing influence of queer theory, in particular, comment trends research into identities. take account not only published Journal Language Sexuality beyond, but also that presented decade at annual Lavender Languages Linguistics conference.