Feasting with \u27the Other\u27: Transforming the Self in Food Adventuring Programs

Food adventuring television programs are a relatively recent phenomenon which merge two previously distinct genres of television programming, i.e. travel programs and cooking shows. These programs often feature celebrity chefs or famous personalities going in search of new, exciting culinary adventures which, more often than not, open doors to experiencing and learning about different groups, cultures and their specific ways of life. As such, difference is the highlight and main focus of these programs not just the cuisine which is featured. It is this multilayered, complex terrain in these food adventuring programs which leaves much room for analysis. Difference, as a precious cultural commodity in these programs, is represented and managed in a myriad of ways by different hosts in different programs. Thus, this paper aims to analyze how this activity of searching out and presenting others cultural traditions and ways of life to viewers, affects the ways in which the Other is presented and related to on-screen. It is thus necessary to analyze how this activity of consuming and experiencing the Others cuisine and culture occurs and what its implications are within the larger picture of ethnic and power imbalances. I propose that these experiences of traveling to unknown and unfamiliar locales often transform into mutual exchanges, rather than mere, fleeting encounters between Self (food adventurer) and Other (local inhabitants of the places these food adventurers travel to). Subsequently, the Self undergoes a transformation of its own, as the privileged positionality of the celebrity chef is displaced and challenged in such exchanges

Parsing Argumentation Structures in Persuasive Essays

In this article, we present a novel approach for parsing argumentation structures. We identify argument components using sequence labeling at the token level and apply a new joint model for detecting argumentation structures. The proposed model globally optimizes argument component types and argumentative relations using integer linear programming. We show that our model considerably improves the performance of base classifiers and significantly outperforms challenging heuristic baselines. Moreover, we introduce a novel corpus of persuasive essays annotated with argumentation structures. We show that our annotation scheme and annotation guidelines successfully guide human annotators to substantial agreement. This corpus and the annotation guidelines are freely available for ensuring reproducibility and to encourage future research in computational argumentation.Comment: Under review in Computational Linguistics. First submission: 26 October 2015. Revised submission: 15 July 201

Condorcet domains of tiling type

A Condorcet domain (CD) is a collection of linear orders on a set of candidates satisfying the following property: for any choice of preferences of voters from this collection, a simple majority rule does not yield cycles. We propose a method of constructing "large" CDs by use of rhombus tiling diagrams and explain that this method unifies several constructions of CDs known earlier. Finally, we show that three conjectures on the maximal sizes of those CDs are, in fact, equivalent and provide a counterexample to them.Comment: 16 pages. To appear in Discrete Applied Mathematic

Selective Games on Binary Relations

We present a unified approach, based on dominating families in binary relations, for the study of topological properties defined in terms of selection principles and the games associated to them.Comment: 28 page