We investigated the impact of early visual processing on decision-making during unpredictable, risky situations. Participants undertook Navon's (1977) task and attended to either global letters or local letters only, following which they completed the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART). It was observed that global-focused individuals made more balloon pumps during the BART (i.e., took more risk)...

This paper describes the UniTN/Essex submission to the CoNLL-2012 Shared Task on the Multilingual Coreference Resolution. We have extended our CoNLL-2011 submission, based on BART, to cover two additional languages, Arabic and Chinese. This paper focuses on adapting BART to new languages, discussing the problems we have encountered and the solutions adopted. In particular, we propose a novel en...