Re-hexamining the hedgehogs anecdote

Anecdote Recognition and Recommendation

We introduce a novel task Anecdote Recognition and Recommendation. An anecdote is a story with a point revealing account of an individual person. Recommending proper anecdotes can be used as evidence to support argumentative writing or as a clue for further reading. We represent an anecdote as a structured tuple — < person, story, implication >. Anecdote recognition runs on archived argumentati...

Anecdote is the singular of data

Why put together yet another debate about the importance or irrelevance of place in society? The superficial reason for doing this here was that in Autumn 2000 I was asked to referee a paper by Andrew McCulloch (2001) which both impressed and concerned me. I was impressed by the amount of work and skill which had gone into this paper, as with much of the analysis of the British Household Panel ...

The Plural of Anecdote is "Blog"

Moving from anecdote to evidence.

Hedgehogs tryst with the cell cycle.

Hedgehog proteins play an essential role during pattern formation in animal development and, increasingly, much of our appreciation of their modes of action is emanating from studies of their signalling mechanisms at the cellular level. Recent work has provided insights into how Hedgehog controls the cell cycle in a variety of circumstances. The data suggest that this influence may be direct an...