A Token of Our Appreciation

Acronyms as an Integral Part of Multi-Word Term Recognition - A Token of Appreciation

Term conflation is the process of linking together different variants of the same term. In automatic term recognition approaches, all term variants should be aggregated into a single normalized term representative, which is associated with a single domain–specific concept as a latent variable. In a previous study, we described FlexiTerm, an unsupervised method for recognition of multi–word term...

ALAN v29n3 - Grief, Thought, & Appreciation: Re-examining Our Values Amid Terrorism Through The Giver

"Teachable moments" are not always pleasant experiences. Sometimes we are jolted into knowledge or thoughts we might rather avoid. This is the story of a "teachable moment" in a young adult literature class as students processed complex emotions and thoughts surrounding the September 11 terrorist attacks after reading striking parallels in Lois Lowry's The Giver. Before we proceed, we need to e...

Sam Karlin: a personal appreciation.

In the 1960s Karlin and Bodmer established an active programme in mathematical population genetics with NIH support that, in turn, supported the work of Ewens and Feldman with Karlin. Subsequently Karlin established a similar programme in Israel. The overall contributions of Karlin to population genetics and molecular biology are briefly reviewed from a personal perspective.

George Hess: A scientific appreciation.

The recent passing of George Hess (1926–2015) has left a deep void in Cornell University’s Biochemistry department, and in the hearts of his many friends and admirers. He is sorely missed by his scientific friends and by his loving family. George Hess was born in Vienna, Austria, where he lived in an apartment on the Ringstrasse with his parents, Heinrich and Edith Mueller Hess, and maternal gr...

Ken Wilson: a scientific appreciation.