In this paper we address the problem of first name and last name identification in a news collection. The approach presented is based on corpus investigation and is language independent. At the core of the system there is a name classifier based on the values of different parameters. In its most general form, the name category identification is not an easy task. The hardest problems are raised ...

The Werewolf game is a conversation-based party games. Each player in the game belongs to werewolves or villagers. Since secret conversations called “Whispers” are allowed for werewolves only, effective use of whispers must be a key issue for werewolves to proceed advantageously to win the game. In this work-in-progress paper, for a preliminary assessment of the whispers’ effect, we extract rel...

We propose a model of belief and intention change over the course of a dialogue, in the case where the decisions taken during the dialogue affect the possibly conflicting goals of the agents involved. We use Situation Calculus to model the evolution of the world and an observation model to analyze the evolution of intentions and beliefs. In our formalization, utterances, that only change the be...

BACKGROUND: The PubMed database contains nearly 15 million references from more than 4,800 biomedical journals. In general, authors of scientific articles are addressed by their last name and forename initial. DISCUSSION: In general, names can be too common and not unique enough to be search criteria. Today, Ph.D. students, other researchers and women publish scientific work. A person may not o...

During typesetting, errors were introduced into the names of the third, fifth, and eighth authors. The third author’s given name should be María de Luján, and the surname should be Calcagno. The fifth author’s given name should be Hernán, and the surname should be Garcia Rivello. The eighth author’s given name should be Valeria Beatriz, and the surname should be Fernández Vallone. The correct c...

One is a writer and journalist and the other is an academic biologist. Both write highly regarded popular books on evolutionary biology, a subject they are both passionate about. Titles, such as The Red Queen and Mendel's Demon, have been created by them, gaining wide critical acclaim. The problem is that both have the bibliographic signature 'Ridley, M'. Matt the journalist and Mark the biolog...