Men and machines.

Those magnificent men and their flying machines.

The learning of perceptual-motor skills by men and machines and its relationship to training

As part of a program of research on-the feasibility and utility of automated training devices, “teaching machines,” for perceptual-motor skills, a comparative study has been made of human operators and computer-simulated learning-machines learning a high order tracking task under a variety of conditions. One outcome of this study has been to suggest, through the similarity of learning phenomena...

Rural Masculinity and Antique Tractors: Reliving the Men in the Machines

As the economic contexts of farming change, occupational supports for the maintenance of traditional rural masculinities diminish. When these past identities remain salient, identity discontinuity can occur and alternative mechanisms of support may be sought. Nostalgic remembrances may serve to reduce such discontinuity. The current inquiry explores antique tractor collecting as a means of rest...

The proper place of men and machines in language technology Processing Russian without any linguistic knowledge

The paper describes several experiments aimed at designing tools for processing Russian texts, namely for Part-Of-Speech tagging, lemmatisation and syntactic parsing, exploiting exclusively statistical approaches without coding any linguistic rules specifically for Russian. While not claiming any new ground for machine learning research, the results demonstrate the possibility to create state-o...

The Proper Place of Men and Machines in Language Technology . Processing Russian without Any Linguistic Knowledge

The paper describes several experiments aimed at designing tools for processing Russian texts, namely for Part-Of-Speech tagging, lemmatisation and syntactic parsing, exploiting exclusively statistical approaches without coding any linguistic rules specifi cally for Russian. While not claiming any new ground for machine learning research, the results demonstrate the possibility to create state-...