The increasing commercialisation and sophistication of language engineering products reinforces the need for tools and standards in support of a more cost-effective development and evaluation process than has been possible so far. This paper presents results of the MATE project which was launched in response to the need for standards and tools in support of creating, annotating, evaluating and ...

The Mate Retention Inventory (MRI) assesses the performance of behaviors that function to maintain and retain a romantic partner s exclusive involvement with the individual. We first review existing evidence for the psychometric utility of the MRI. We then examine in the current study agreement between selfreports and partner-reports of mate retention behaviors using data from married couples. ...

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Behind every success is a journey, and that journey isn’t necessarily a straight path. Instead, it can be filled with bumps, twists, and turns. Things might not go smoothly, but that’s good because it helps you learn and improve. The journey isn’t easy, but it pays off in the long run. This sums up the experience of our MTL HydroTech team from Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, which competed in the 2017 ...

Since early 1998, the European Telematics project MATE has worked towards facilitating re-use of annotated spoken language data, addressing theoretical issues and implementing practical solutions which could serve as standards in the field. The resulting MATE Workbench for corpus annotation is now available as licensed open source software. This paper describes the MATE markup framework which b...

Men may have evolved psychological mechanisms that motivate mate retention behaviors to prevent their partners from being sexually unfaithful or defecting from the relationship because these events are likely to have inflicted reproductive costs on males over human evolutionary history. In the current research, 235 women provided information about their own and their long-term partners’ mate va...