The Honor System at Michigan

The University of Michigan at DUC 2004

We present the results of Michigan’s participation in DUC 2004. Our system, MEAD, ranked as one of the top systems in four of the five tasks. We introduce our new feature, LexPageRank, a new measure of sentence centrality inspired by the prestige concept in social networks. LexPageRank gave promising results in multi-document summarization. Our approach for Task 5, biographical summarization, w...

The University of Michigan at TREC 2003

Honor to the core: Measuring implicit honor ideology endorsement

People from honor-oriented societies emphasize the maintenance and defense of reputation. Prior research has used geographical distinctions or self-report scales to identify honor-oriented regions and people. The current study examined if honor orientations can be assessed at an implicit level through the use of the Affect Misattribution Procedure (Payne, Cheng, Govorun, & Stewart, 2005). Peopl...

Honor to Whom Honor Is Due

It was owing in a great measure to an Indian surgeon's (Sir Eanald Martin's) efforts that the Order of the Bath was iirst conferred on British army surgeons, yet how few of Sir Ranald's brethren in India have received it, and how still fewer have been thought worthy of the Indian Order! Wo frequently see wealthy Parsees, and chiefs of doubtful fidelity, receiving the Star of India, while it is ...

Isotope Science Facility at Michigan State University