Interpreting Database Studies

Interpreting Natural Language Database Updates

Although the problems of querying databases in natural language are well understood, the performance of database updates via natural language introduces additional difficulties. This thesis examines the problems encountered in interpreting natural language updates, and describes an implemented system that performs simple updates. The difficulties associated with natural language updates result ...

Interpreting iron studies.

A 63 year old woman visits her doctor with a three month history of fatigue and generalised joint pains. Her medical history is unremarkable and she reports no recent stress, infection, or weight loss. There are no abnormalities on clinical examination. Haemoglobin, creatinine, and electrolytes, liver enzymes, glucose, inflammatory markers, and thyroid function tests are normal. Ferritin, iron,...

Interpreting Singular Definite Descriptions In Database Queries

The paper examines some of the characteristic features of natural language interaction with a database system and its implications for the processing of singular definite descriptions. Some proposals are made for assessing the uniqueness claim of the singular definite article in the context of retrieval from a relational database. Other standard assumptions such as the extensional evaluation an...

Interpreting Gentrification Case Studies: A Perspective

Efficiency versus Effectiveness: Interpreting Education Production Studies

To gain analytical insight into whether input resources matter in public education, a Becker/Peltzman/Stigler model of the determination of local educational budgets and outputs by political authorities is constructed. The model results are consistent with empirical findings that resources don’t matter, even when all schools are efficient, if errors in measurement and specification occur. When ...