Ethical Judgments: Re-writing Medical Law

Re: Ethical studies, ethical publication.

I was pleased to see that Occupational Medicine thought it appropriate to publish an editorial on ethical publication [1]. It is important that the ethics of research and publication remain in the consciousness of occupational physicians. This is particularly so where they are actively involved in occupational medicine research and therefore the ethical treatment of workers who participate in s...

String Re-writing Kernel

Learning for sentence re-writing is a fundamental task in natural language processing and information retrieval. In this paper, we propose a new class of kernel functions, referred to as string re-writing kernel, to address the problem. A string re-writing kernel measures the similarity between two pairs of strings, each pair representing re-writing of a string. It can capture the lexical and s...

Medical Writing

While the technical details discussed in this manual pertain largely to the press of the American Medical Association, they are, however, applicable in large measure to other Journals. The value of the book as a guidebook tends to be obscured a bit by the value of the text as a joke-book, although "joke-book" is hardly the proper term to apply, for it can hardly be considered a joke when men wi...

Stanford Law Re

A Psychophysical Law for Linguistic Judgments

It has been argued that linguistic acceptability can be estimated using the psychophysical technique of magnitude estimation, in the same way as physical continua such as brightness and loudness (Bard, Robertson, & Sorace, 1996; Cowart, 1997). For physical continua, plotting the perceived stimulus magnitude against the actual physical magnitude results in a power relationship, the Psychophysica...