For debate

Debate Debate

Geocomputation is an emerging field of research that advocates the use of computationally intensive techniques such as neural networks, heuristic search, and cellular automata for spatial data analysis. Since increasing amounts of health-related data are collected within a geographical frame of reference, geocomputational methods show increasing potential for health data analysis. This paper pr...

Towards Debate Automation: a Recurrent Model for Predicting Debate Winners

In this paper we introduce a practical first step towards the creation of an automated debate agent: a state-of-the-art recurrent predictive model for predicting debate winners. By having an accurate predictive model, we are able to objectively rate the quality of a statement made at a specific turn in a debate. The model is based on a recurrent neural network architecture with attention, which...

Statement for debate

Introduction Antibiotic stewardship programs are multidisciplinary initiatives whose primary aim is to optimize antibiotic usage. Th e Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) and the Society for Health Care Epidemiology of America (SHEA) published guidelines for antimicrobial stewardship in 2007 aimed at providing information on how to establish such programs within health care institution...

New Focus for Imagery Debate

In their study of reasoning with diagrammatic and nondia~,rammatic representations, Larkin and Simon (1987) are concerned with external representations and explicitly avoid drawing inferences about the bearing of their work on the issue of internal, mental representations. Nonetheless, we may infer the bearing of their work on internal representations from the theories of Kosslyn, Finke and oth...

Inaugural Debate Section - Debate Editor's Note