Recognizing the intent of a written utterance is a difficult task. To understand the intended meanings, it may be necessary to recognize all possible meanings of the utterance; and, then choose the most appropriate one for the situation. The choice may be made using heuristics. A method for recognition of a humorous intent in a text is proposed. Computational recognition of a humorous intent ca...

THEODORE J. WEIMAN On July 22, 2004, the House of Representatives passed the Marriage Protection Act of 2004, a bill that would strip the federal courts of jurisdiction over cases challenging the constitutionality of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. Two months later, the House passed a similar bill that would curtail federal court jurisdiction for challenges to the constitutionality of the Ple...

With the end of the Supermarket Revolution in the 1970s, new forms of horizontal, vertical, and geographic competition have appeared to chaflenge the supremacy of the supermarket format. New retail formats like warehouse stores, supercenters, and fast-food outlets appear to affect local retail supermarket prices. Slotting allowances, coupons, and electronic data gathering have intensified retai...

We raise the problem of the minorities' survival in the presence of positive network externalities. We rely on the example of thematic clubs to illustrate why and in which circumstances such survival problems might appear, …rst considering the case of simple network externalities and then the case of cross network externalities. Sonnac and Skerdilajda Zanaj for their comments and suggestions.

We consider whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are mainly poor because they are governed worse than other countries, as suggested by recent studies on the supremacy of institutions. Our empirical results show that the supremacy of institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face specific development problems in addition to weak institutions. Given their geographic and economic ...

This study used the dynamic scenario simulation of system dynamics to perform simulation on the effects of education policies, trend of employment demand, and employability qualities of vocational college graduates on the development of employment demand in Taiwan’s technology industry. According to the research results, dynamic situational simulation of system dynamics can be used to simulate ...

This paper presents a novel approach to infer navigational intent of the user of a walker, based on measuring forces and moments applied to the walker’s handles. While there are many types of “intent” that could be inferred for a given user action, the experiments conducted here focused on the determining user’s navigational intent, i.e. their desired heading. Our experiments used two 6-DOF for...