Fevered headlines

Fevered headlines

There are occasions when readers can get a realistic picture of some topical issue only by examining what several different newspapers say from their respective standpoints. In the case of the influenza that hit Britain in January, this approach would have brought more confusion than clarity. Not only were there flatly contradictory accounts of the severity of the outbreak, and whether it quali...

Translation of News Headlines

Machine-Translation of news headlines is difficult since the sentences are fragmentary and abbreviations and acronyms of proper names are frequently used. Another difficulty is that, since the headline comes at the top of a news article, the context information useful to disambiguate the sense of words and to determine their translation(target word) is not available. This paper proposes a new a...

Making Headlines on Health

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Fishing for headlines

For the past year, it seems, everywhere you turn there’s been a story about the sorry state of the oceans. There have been countless reports about a frightening decline of fish in the ocean. Americans have also read about troubled coral reefs and hideous fish kills. The drumbeat is so heavy, Time Magazine has had two cover stories on the subject. Not only has this same suite of stories cropped ...

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