Automatic Extraction of Commonsense LocatedNear Knowledge

LocatedNear relation is a kind of commonsense knowledge describing two physical objects that are typically found near each other in real life. In this paper, we study how to automatically extract such relationship through a sentence-level relation classifier and aggregating the scores of entity pairs from a large corpus. Also, we release two benchmark datasets for evaluation and future research.Comment: Accepted by ACL 2018. A preliminary version is presented on AKBC@NIPS'1

Survival, Resistance, and the Canadian State: The Transformation of New Brunswick’s Native Economy, 1867-1930

Between Confederation and 1930, the economic life of the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet First Nations of New Brunswick underwent a broad transformation, as hunting, fishing and trapping were progressively supplanted by agriculture, the production of handicrafts and, especially, wage labour. The First Nations of the province experienced this transformation as a dual struggle of survival and resistance. They may have integrated, mostly out of necessity, into the larger provincial economy, but they also persisted in long-established patterns of fish and game harvesting, often in defiance of federal and provincial regulations. Moreover, the maintenance of hunting, fishing, and trapping as important economic activities was underscored by a consistent assertion that Native rights to the forest, fish, and game resources of the province were vested in treaties negotiated with British colonial authorities.Entre 1867 et 1930, la vie économique des Mi'kmaq et des Malécites des Premières nations du Nouveau-Brunswick connut une profonde transformation, la chasse, la pêche et le piégeage étant progressivement supplantés par l'agriculture, l'artisanat et plus particulièrement le travail salarié. Pour ces groupes autochtones, ce fut une période de résistance et de lutte pour la survie. Certes, par nécessité, ils finirent par s'intégrer dans le cadre plus large de l'économie provinciale, mais ils continuèrent parallèlement à pratiquer leurs activités ancestrales de chasse, de pêche et de piégeage, souvent au mépris des règlements fédéraux et provinciaux. Aux yeux des autochtones, cette pratique n'avait rien d'illégal, puisqu'ils affirmaient que leurs droits à la chasse, à la pêche et à l’exploitation des ressources forestières du Nouveau-Brunswick étaient des acquis des traités négociés avec les autorités coloniales britanniques

The Grizzly, September 12, 1995

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‘Re-reading Raphael Samuel: Politics, Personality and Performance’

For British historian Raphael Samuel, history and politics were inextricable. Best known as the founder of the history workshop movement, the controversial historian took his stance on the democratisation of history-making, becoming an outspoken advocate for public history. Despite making a significant contribution to contemporary historiography, he remains a neglected, even disparaged, figure. This paper contends that the most significant aspect of Samuel’s historical work was not one or other theory of history or argument about the past but his entire way of being an historian. Samuel embodied as much as expressed his ideas, consciously using his personality as a powerful political tool. It is further argued that conventional approaches to intellectual history, focusing on textual outputs, do not fully recognise the significance of performative modes of thinking. Theoretical approaches to performance as identity offer important insight here but can be too schematic in their view of applied and enacted thought. A biographical approach, by contrast, provides the intimate perspective necessary to fully appreciate the fluidity and complexity of such a personality. The paper first situates Samuel in the context of his earlier life, focusing on how and why he created such a public persona and how he adapted it in response to changing circumstances. It then considers the implications and effectiveness of this persona by assessing how it was perceived and narrated by others, acknowledging, in the process, why different groups engaged with and interpreted it differently

The Space Infrared Interferometric Telescope (SPIRIT): High-resolution imaging and spectroscopy in the far-infrared

We report results of a recently-completed pre-Formulation Phase study of SPIRIT, a candidate NASA Origins Probe mission. SPIRIT is a spatial and spectral interferometer with an operating wavelength range 25 - 400 microns. SPIRIT will provide sub-arcsecond resolution images and spectra with resolution R = 3000 in a 1 arcmin field of view to accomplish three primary scientific objectives: (1) Learn how planetary systems form from protostellar disks, and how they acquire their inhomogeneous composition; (2) characterize the family of extrasolar planetary systems by imaging the structure in debris disks to understand how and where planets of different types form; and (3) learn how high-redshift galaxies formed and merged to form the present-day population of galaxies. Observations with SPIRIT will be complementary to those of the James Webb Space Telescope and the ground-based Atacama Large Millimeter Array. All three observatories could be operational contemporaneously.Comment: 20 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in J. Adv. Space Res. on 26 May 200

A Two-Step Theory and Test of Democratic Waves *

Abstract Scholars, observing clustering in transitions to democracy, argue that democratization diffuses across borders as citizens in autocracies demand the same reforms they witness in neighboring states. We disagree. The present paper asserts that the diffusion of democracy literature rests on weak theoretical foundations and does not properly test for diffusion. We advance an alternative two-step argument to explain clustering of democratization: (1) economic shocks, which are clustered spatially and temporally, induce the breakdown of authoritarian regimes; then (2) democratic diffusion, in turn, influences whether a fallen dictatorship will be replaced by a democracy or a new autocracy. Diffusion, despite playing an important role, is insufficient to explain the clustering of transitions, notably because it cannot account for the timing of the waves. Using data on 125 autocracies from 1875 to 2004, we show that economic crises trigger authoritarian breakdowns, while diffusion determines whether the new regime is democratic or authoritarian. * Thanks t

The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning

This paper characterizes the actual science performance of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as determined from the six month commissioning period. We summarize the performance of the spacecraft, telescope, science instruments, and ground system, with an emphasis on differences from pre-launch expectations. Commissioning has made clear that JWST is fully capable of achieving the discoveries for which it was built. Moreover, almost across the board, the science performance of JWST is better than expected; in most cases, JWST will go deeper faster than expected. The telescope and instrument suite have demonstrated the sensitivity, stability, image quality, and spectral range that are necessary to transform our understanding of the cosmos through observations spanning from near-earth asteroids to the most distant galaxies.Comment: 5th version as accepted to PASP; 31 pages, 18 figures; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/acb29

A first update on mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19

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Regularization behavior in a non-linguistic domain

Language learners tend to regularize unpredictable variation and some claim that is due to a language-specific regularization bias. We investigate the role of task difficulty on regularization behavior in a non-linguistic frequency learning task and show that adults regularize variable input when tracking multiple frequencies concurrently, but reliably reproduce the variation they have observed when tracking one frequency. These results suggest that regularization behavior may be due to domain-general factors, such as memory limitations