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Political Science

W. Lowe (ms) 'Understanding Wordscores'. Paper presented at Midwest 2006. POLMETH Archive.
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W. Lowe (ms) 'Yoshikoder: An open source multilingual content analysis tool for social scientists'. Paper presented at APSA 2006.
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E. Jenne, S. Saideman, W. Lowe (to appear 2007) 'Secessionism as a bargaining posture' Journal of Peace Research.

W. Lowe (2006) 'New methods for conflict data' in Programming for Peace: Computer-Aided Methods for International Conflict Resolution and Prevention edited R. Trappl. Springer pp.321-334
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W. Lowe (2005) 'Understanding Outliers' presented at the European Consortium for Political Research meeting, Budapest
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W. Lowe (2004) Content analysis and its place in the (methodological) scheme of things. Qualitative Methods 2:1 pp.25-27.
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G. King and W. Lowe (2003) 'An automated information extraction tool For international conflict data with performance as good as human coders: A rare events evaluation design' International Organization 57 pp.617-642.

W. Lowe and G. King (2003) 'Some statistical methods for evaluating information extraction systems' Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics pp.19-26.
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W. Lowe (2003) 'Uncertainty' Encyclopedia of Research Methods in the Social Sciences Sage.
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W. Lowe (2003) 'Rare Events Research' Encyclopedia of Social Measurement Elsevier.
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W. Lowe (2003) 'The statistics of text: New methods for content analysis' presented at the Midwest Conference.
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W. Lowe (2002) 'Software for content analysis: A review' Report for the Identity Project.
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J. Bryson, W. Lowe and L. A. Stein (2001) 'Hypothesis testing for complex agents' in National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 970 pp. 233-240.
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Cognitive Science

W. Lowe (2007) 'Identifying your accompanist' Invited paper for the Companions Project Event at Oxford University, 25th October, 2007.
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W. Lowe (2003) 'Sentence completion test' Encyclopedia of Research Methods in the Social Sciences Sage.
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J. Bullinaria and W. Lowe, editors (2002) Connectionist Models of Cognition and Perception World Scientific
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W. Lowe (2001) 'Towards a theory of semantic space' Presented at Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
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W. Lowe (2000) 'What is the dimensionality of human semantic space?' Proceedings of the 6th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop Springer Verlag, pp.303-311.
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W. Lowe (2000) 'Topographic Maps of Semantic Space' PhD Thesis, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
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W. Lowe and S. McDonald (2000) 'The direct route: Mediated priming in semantic space' Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Lawrence Erlbaum Associates pp.806-811.
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R. C. Shillcock, S. McDonald, P. Hipwell and W. Lowe (1998) 'Distinctiveness of spoken word context predicts lexical decision time' Centre for Cognitive Science Research Paper EUCCS-RP-1998-4
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S. McDonald and W. Lowe (1998) 'Modelling functional priming and the Associative boost' in Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Lawrence Erlbaum Associates pp.675-680
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W. Lowe (1997) 'Meaning and the mental lexicon' in Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Morgan Kaufmann pp.1092-1097.
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W. Lowe (1997) 'Semantic representation and priming in a self-organizing lexicon' in Proceedings of the 4th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop Springer Verlag pp.227-239
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J. Bryson and W. Lowe (1997) 'Commentary on D. Ballard, M. M. Hayhoe, P. K. Pook and R. P. N. Rao, Deictic codes for the embodiment of cognition' Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20(4) pp.743-744
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W. Lowe 'Psycholinguistics by brute force' (an informal talk on semantic space models)
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Miscellaneous

J. Dowdall, W. Lowe, J. Ellman, F. Rinaldi and M. Hess (2004) 'The role of multiword terminology in knowledge management' Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.

W. Lowe (ms) 'A thumbnail sketch of the Likelihood Principle'
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