We present an extension of the coreference annotation in the English NP4E and the Catalan AnCora-CA corpora with near-identity relations, which are borderline cases of coreference. The annotated subcorpora have 50K tokens each. Near-identity relations, as presented by Recasens et al. (2010; 2011), build upon the idea that identity is a continuum rather than an either/or relation, thus introduci...

As an urban planner, Donald Schon (1) provides a remarkable review of the reasons for intractable policy controversies, resistant to evidence, and untikelyto be settled by compromise. Any "agreement" negotiated is then unlikely to hold, since implementing such an agreement usually gives rise to new conditions of disagreement. This was ignored in the Earth Summit (Rio de Janeiro, June 1992) purs...

Sixty-seven female and 54 male college students participated in a study of sexual disagreements in which the man desired to engage in a higher level of sexual activity than did the woman. Participants kept an ongoing record of dates and disagreements and provided descriptive information about some of these. We had three goals: (a) to determine how frequently this type of disagreement occurs in ...

Disagreements about the definition, nature, structure, ontology, and content of scientific theories are at least partly responsible for disagreements in other debates in the philosophy of science. I argue that available theories of theories and conceptual analyses of theory are ineffectual options for overcoming this difficulty. Directing my attention to debates about the properties of particul...

OBJECTIVE To measure the reliability of data collected by the Thames cancer registry and to identify factors in the registration process affecting reliability. DESIGN A retrospective study of data from the registry, including death certificate only registrations, and hospital case notes on cases of colorectal cancer diagnosed in 1983 or 1988. SETTING Four districts in South Thames region. ...

The micro-time context of group processes (such as argumentation) can affect a group’s micro-creativity (new ideas). Eighty high school students worked in groups of four on an algebra problem. Groups with higher mathematics grades showed greater microcreativity, and both were linked to better problem solving outcomes. Dynamic multilevel analyses of the groups’ 2951 turns of conversation statist...

It is very common to examine reliability of triage scales using (weighted) kappa statistics. The point is that weighted kappa has grossly underestimated disagreements by one category and put more emphasis on extreme category disagreements; therefore, low prevalence of critically-ill and non-urgent patients has excluded the effect of extreme categories disagreement from calculated kappa coeffici...

2 3 We propose a generative model of page selection by users, and the disagreements that occur on those pages, in Wiki-like environments, applicable to many other forms of collective intelligence. We learn groupings of page content (topics) which preserve user disagreements while explaining page preferences. Within each grouping, users have preferences over points of view (POV), which determine...