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Fintan Costello
Researcher at University College Dublin
Publications - 78
Citations - 1328
Fintan Costello is an academic researcher from University College Dublin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Conceptual combination & Noun. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 71 publications receiving 1236 citations. Previous affiliations of Fintan Costello include Dublin City University & Dublin Institute of Technology.
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T-Align, a web-based tool for comparison of multiple terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism profiles.
Cindy J. Smith,Bret S. Danilowicz,Adrian K. Clear,Fintan Costello,Bryan Wilson,Wim G. Meijer +5 more
TL;DR: A freely accessible web-based program, T-Align, which allows rapid comparison of numerous tRFLP profiles and identifies shared and unique components of microbial communities using only terminal restriction fragments that occur in all replicate profiles.
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Efficient creativity: Constraint-guided conceptual combination.
Fintan Costello,Mark T. Keane +1 more
TL;DR: A theory that explains both the creativity and the efficiency of people’s conceptual combination, the C 3 model, which admits the full creativity of combination and yet efficiently settles on the best interpretation for a given phrase.
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Surprisingly rational: probability theory plus noise explains biases in judgment.
Fintan Costello,Paul Watts +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that people do not use the rules of probability theory when reasoning about probability but instead use heuristics, which sometimes yield reasonable judgments and sometimes yield systematic biases.
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Applying computational models of spatial prepositions to visually situated dialog
TL;DR: A generic architecture for a visually situated dialog system is described and the interactions between the spatial cognition module, which provides the interface to the models of prepositional semantics, and the other components in the architecture are highlighted.
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Testing two theories of conceptual combination: alignment versus diagnosticity in the comprehension and production of combined concepts.
Fintan Costello,Mark T. Keane +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that participants reliably preferred diagnostic property interpretations, whether alignable or nonalignable, in both tasks, which confirms constraint theory's predictions about property interpretations and goes against the predictions of dual-process theory.