Expert comments

An expert comments on the preop process.

Dr Pasternak: Bayview uses a preoperative evaluation center (PEC) that is under the management of senior clinical nurses. Bayview has 10 ORs and a surgical volume of 8,000 patients a year. Administratively and clinically, the nurses run the clinic under the direction of an anesthesiologist who is a medical director but who is not on site. We used to have a physician on site who was assigned as ...

Response to Tony O'Hagan's and Simon French' comments on 'expert judgement combination using moment methods'

In our response, let us first clarify that we do not suggest the direct elicitation of moments of uncertain quantities. There are well known approximations that allow one to pass between quantile assessments and mean/variance assessments which may be used to pass from one parameterisation to the other. To the theoretician such approximations may appear crude. In applications however, one should...

Science, society, and the expert town meeting: some comments on Asilomar.

Opinion Mining of Spanish Customer Comments with Non-Expert Annotations on Mechanical Turk

One of the major bottlenecks in the development of data-driven AI Systems is the cost of reliable human annotations. The recent advent of several crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, allowing requesters the access to affordable and rapid results of a global workforce, greatly facilitates the creation of massive training data. Most of the available studies on the effectivene...

Mining Expert Comments on the Application of ILO Conventions on Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining

This paper explains how text mining was used within the context of a research project on social dialogue regimes, jointly undertaken by the University of Geneva, the University of Lyon 2 and the International Institute of Labour Studies of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The research project, which was made possible through the generous support of the Geneva International Academic ...