HoNOSty: does HoNOS provide a good enough measure of outcome?

When Is a Confidence Measure Good Enough?

Confidence estimation has recently become a hot topic in image processing and computer vision. Yet, several definitions exist of the term ”confidence” which are sometimes used interchangeably. This is a position paper, in which we aim to give an overview on existing definitions, thereby clarifying the meaning of the used terms to facilitate further research in this field. Based on these clarifi...

Because good enough is never good enough

hsr Proceedings in intensive care and cardiovascular anesthesia 2012, Vol. 4 Corresponding author: Prof. Michael John Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Via Olgettina, 48 20132 Milan, Italy e-mail: [email protected] And now for something completely different. Formula one racing drivers need to know the track they will be speeding around to avoid injuring themselves and others, and hopefully ...

Outcome Scales (HoNOS) family of measures

Does Size Matter? When Small is Good Enough

This paper reports the observation of the influence of the size of documents on the accuracy of a defined text processing task. Our hypothesis is that based on a specific task (in this case, topic classification), results obtained using longer texts may be approximated by short texts, of micropost size, i.e., maximum length 140 characters. Using an email dataset as the main corpus, we generate ...

Determining Relevance: Close Enough is Good Enough

Humans exhibit characteristic success in considering what is relevant in their cognitive tasks. Yet understanding how relevance is determined in cognition remains a problem. This paper seeks to make headway on this problem. The relevance problem is first introduced. Sperber and Wilson’s influential theory of relevance is then discussed, but dismissed as inadequate. Some conditions are identifie...