International regimes: lessons from inductive analysis

International Water Con ̄ ict Resolution : Lessons from Comparative Analysis

This paper offers lessons learned for the process of resolving international freshwater con ̄ icts from the combined experience of treaty negotiations, process case studies, and a series of forums on international waters. The ® rst section describes the current state of international water institutions and law, and discusses weaknesses in each structure. The second section describes recent attem...

International Inductive Logic Programming Workshop Inductive Logic

This paper reviews our recent work on applying inductive logic programming to the construction of natural language processing systems. We have developed a system, Chill, that learns a parser from a training corpus of parsed sentences by inducing heuristics that control an initial overly-general shift-reduce parser. Chill learns syntactic parsers as well as ones that translate English database q...

Theories of international regimes

Lessons for inductive germline determination.

Formation of the germline in an embryo marks a fresh round of reproductive potential, yet the developmental stage and location within the embryo where the primordial germ cells (PGCs) form differs wildly among species. In most animals, the germline is formed either by an inherited mechanism, in which maternal provisions within the oocyte drive localized germ-cell fate once acquired in the embry...

Nationalism and Conflict: Lessons from International Sports

Does nationalism make interstate conflict more likely? Many believe so, arguing that it led to such conflicts as the Spanish-American War, the two World Wars, and Russia’s recent intervention in the Ukraine. However, others contend that strategic constraints greatly limit nationalism’s effects on state behavior. Resolving this debate has proven difficult because of endogeneity and measurement i...