CANDY ELASTICITY: HALLOWEEN EXPERIMENTS ON PUBLIC POLITICAL STATEMENTS

Open Extraction of Fine-Grained Political Statements

Text data has recently been used as evidence in estimating the political ideologies of individuals, including political elites and social media users. While inferences about people are often the intrinsic quantity of interest, we draw inspiration from open information extraction to identify a new task: inferring the political import of propositions like OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST. We present several ...

ATSDR - Public Health Statements: Mercury

This Public Health Statement is the summary chapter from the Toxicological Profile for Mercury. It is one in a series of Public Health Statements about hazardous substances and their health effects. A shorter version, the ToxFAQsTM, is also available. This information is important because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the dur...

LIMSI ICD10 coding Experiments on CépiDC Death Certificate Statements

We describe LIMSI experiments in ICD10 coding of death certificate statements with the CépiDc dataset of the CLEF eHealth 2016 Track 2. We tested a classifier with humanly-interpretable output, based on IR-style ranking of candidate ICD10 diagnoses. A tf.idf-weighted bagof-feature vector was built for each training set code by merging all the statements found for this code in the training data....

Experiments in Political Economy1

1 This was prepared for publication as a chapter in The Handbook of Experimental Economics, Volume 2, edited by John Kagel and Alvin Roth. The …nancial support of the National Science Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. I wish to thank many coauthors and colleagues for sharing their insights about laboratory experimentation in political science and g...

10 Statements on the Future of Public Health in Europe.