Using single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotypes from the 1000 Genomes Project pilot3 data provided for Genetic Analysis Workshop 17 (GAW17), we applied Bayesian network structure learning (BNSL) to identify potential causal SNPs associated with the Affected phenotype. We focus on the setting in which target genes that harbor causal variants have already been chosen for resequencing; the go...

Recent work in discourse semantics has focused on modeling the determinants of meaning for linguistic utterances beyond the level of a single clause. As more parameters of interpretation have been incorporated into our model of meaning, the assumption sregarding compositionality have become much more complex (cf. Groenendijk and Stokhof 1990; Kamp and Reyle 1993; Asher 1993; Asher and Lascaride...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop the Meaning of Life Intervention in response to the need for brief and meaning-focused interventions in palliative care and to establish potential effect sizes for future full-scale randomized, controlled trials. DESIGN A randomized, controlled trial conducted to pilot test the Meaning of Life Intervention. SETTING A 68-bed oncology inpatient ward in an urban a...

BOSTON (AP) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy campaigned in the precincts of his political youth * yesterday, telling Massachu­ setts voters “ 1 have come home to ask for your help” to rekindle his flickering challenge to Pres­ ident Carter. R epublican G eorge Bush sought a comeback against Ronald Reagan and said he was making election-eve headway. For Bush as for Kennedy, the Massachusetts presidential ...

Recent demonstrations that music is capable of conveying semantically meaningful information has raised several questions as to what the underlying mechanisms of establishing meaning in music are, and if the meaning of music is represented in comparable fashion to language meaning. This paper presents evidence showing that expressed affect is a primary pathway to music meaning and that meaning ...

This paper describes text meaning representation for Chinese. Text meaning representation is composed of a set of ontological concept instances along with ontological links among them. It integrates lexical, textual and world knowledge into a single hierarchical framework. In NLP application it serves as an interlingual representation for various processing. The methodology and implementation o...