Human abstracts, machine summaries, cyborg solutions?

Cyborg Intelligence: Towards Bio-Machine Intelligent Systems

Book of Abstracts and Extended Summaries

The present study examines bias factors which might grant a relative advantage to native Israelis over groups of immigrants in a mathematics achievement test administered to fifth grade students. The bias factor analysis process, aided by quantitative and qualitative data gathering methods, comprised three phases: (1) Using a psychometric procedure called DIF (Differential Item Functioning) to ...

Cyborg beetles.

T he common housefly is a marvel of aeronautical engineering. One reason the fly is a master at evading the handheld swatter is that its wings beat remarkably fast—about 200 times a second. To achieve this amazing speed, the fly makes use of complex biomechanics. Its wings are not directly attached to the muscles of the thorax. Rather the fly tenses and relaxes the muscles in rhythmic cycles th...

The Tension Between Human and Cyborg Ethics

This article makes no argument against progress but stresses the importance of making it with foresight. The connection between biotechnology, treatment, and enhancement is discussed, stating the need for regulation. Next, the ideas of transhumanism are presented as a framework for an examination of our human condition and it is illustrated that cyborgs will possibly develop other values than H...

Machine Learning Approach to Evaluate MultiLingual Summaries

The present paper introduces a newMultiling text summary evaluation method. This method relies on machine learning approach which operates by combining multiple features to build models that predict the human score (overall responsiveness) of a new summary. We have tried several single and “ensemble learning” classiers to build the best model. We have experimented our method in summary level ev...