EIDOS, or Eidos, what is in a name

[kingfish777]

Greetings, I am in the midst of the final edits before submitting an article for publication. I have a question to ask you: what is the original and meaning of the name "Eidos," and what is the preferred capitalization pattern? Does EIDOS stand for anything (extraction, information, Greek eidos meaning shape or form, etc.) Any further info would be helpful. Thanks! Scott

[BeckySharp]

@kingfish777 it doesn't stand for anything, much in contrast with the great DARPA tradition of everything being an acronym. We did, however, select the name for its greek reference to forms/ideas, etc. I think most of us capitalize it like Eidos but no hard feelings either way :)

fun question, thanks for asking!

@MihaiSurdeanu hope it's ok I answered this one :)

[BeckySharp]

oh, also, there's a citation for it --

@inproceedings{sharp2019eidos,
  title={Eidos, INDRA, \& Delphi: From free text to executable causal models},
  author={Sharp, Rebecca and Pyarelal, Adarsh and Gyori, Benjamin and Alcock, Keith and Laparra, Egoitz and Valenzuela-Esc{\'a}rcega, Marco A and Nagesh, Ajay and Yadav, Vikas and Bachman, John and Tang, Zheng and others},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Demonstrations)},
  year={2019}
}

if that helps!

[kwalcock]

Thank you, @BeckySharp. I had almost turned on the bat signal. I will add the citation to the repo before the issue gets closed.

[kwalcock]