We present a method for extracting social networks from literature, namely, nineteenth-century British novels and serials. We derive the networks from dialogue interactions, and thus our method depends on the ability to determine when two characters are in conversation. Our approach involves character name chunking, quoted speech attribution and conversation detection given the set of quotes. W...

Automatically understanding the plot of novels is important both for informing literary scholarship and applications such as summarization or recommendation. Various models have addressed this task, but their evaluation has remained largely intrinsic and qualitative. Here, we propose a principled and scalable framework leveraging expert-provided semantic tags (e.g., mystery, pirates) to evaluat...

Can supraspinal/central fatigue explain the lesser muscle endurance of men compared with women? Several studies have shown that women can present with greater muscle endurance (less fatigability) compared with men (3, 5, 10, 12), although this is not always the case (4, 8). Most of these studies have focused on peripheral physiological mechanisms, mostly those within the muscle, to explain this...

This paper describes the application of a pedagogical model called \learning as a research activity" [D. Gil-P erez and J. Carrascosa-Alis, Science Education 78 (1994) 301{315] to the design and implementation of a two-semester course on compiler design for Computer Engineering students. In the new model, the classical pattern of classroom activity based mainly on one-way knowledge transmission...

~. Le probl~me central de la linguistique est congu comme la construction d'un module fonctionnel (susceptible d'etre r~alis~ sous forme d'un programme pour ordinateur) du langage, c'est-~-dire, d'un syst~me qui transforme n'importe quel sens donn~ en textes correspondants ou vice-versa. Partant du fait fondamental qu'en parlant on ne fait qu'exprimer un contenu pr~congu, le module ici pr~sent~...