This paper describes the Lexicographic Station Development Platform and how it has been used to implement the resulting lexicon guidelines and standards generated by ISLE Computational Lexicon Group in a prototype tool for lexical encoding. The aims of the work described here were to (i) exemplify and disseminate the Multilingual ISLE Lexical Entry (MILE) using an actual model and available mon...

BACKGROUND Children with borderline to mild intellectual disability (BMID) have been shown to be at increased risk for psychosocial problems. The presence of these psychosocial problems leads to parenting stress. Stepping Stones Triple P (SSTP) is a parenting support program to support parents with children with BMID and psychosocial problems. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effective...

Incumbents significantly outperform challengers in American elections, but the normative implications of this phenomenon are ambiguous. Do incompetent officials exploit the political system to keep themselves in power, or do open elections effectively select for good leaders? To address this question, I define and estimate three components of incumbent success in elections— (1) party match, (2)...

This paper explores two axiomatic structures of subjective expected utility assuming a ...nite state-space and state-dependent, connected, topological outcome-spaces. Building on the work of Karni and Schmeidler (1981) the analytical framework includes, in addition to the preference relation on acts, introspective preferences on hypothetical lotteries that are linked to the preference relation ...

After dropping the standard general-equilibrium assumption that preference orders discount future consumption faster than the economy grows and dropping continuity and weakening utility representation, we establish commodity prices and consumptions that approach approximate equilibrium to within any practical tolerance. The Weiza cker-overtaking criterion defines the best-known non-standarddisc...

This paper improves the use of pseudowords as an evaluation framework for selectional preferences. While pseudowords originally evaluated word sense disambiguation, they are now commonly used to evaluate selectional preferences. A selectional preference model ranks a set of possible arguments for a verb by their semantic fit to the verb. Pseudo-words serve as a proxy evaluation for these decisi...

People tend to believe what they want to believe. In this paper, I examine how people interpret others’ behavior to form beliefs about others’ preferences. I develop a “selective beliefs” model of social preferences in which people have intrinsic preferences over outcomes and also hold prior beliefs about the preferences of others. I propose that people attempt to selectively perceive and inter...

Selectional preferences have been used by word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems as one source of disambiguating information. We evaluate WSD using selectional preferences acquired for English adjective–noun, subject, and direct object grammatical relationships with respect to a standard test corpus. The selectional preferences are specific to verb or adjective classes, rather than individual ...

This paper presents an unsupervised random walk approach to alleviate data sparsity for selectional preferences. Based on the measure of preferences between predicates and arguments, the model aggregates all the transitions from a given predicate to its nearby predicates, and propagates their argument preferences as the given predicate’s smoothed preferences. Experimental results show that this...

Young children demonstrate the ability to make inferences about the preferences of other agents based on their choices. However, there exists no overarching account of what children are doing when they learn about preferences or how they use that knowledge. We use a rational model of preference learning, drawing on ideas from economics and computer science, to explain the behavior of children i...