Issues in Vendor/Library Relations -- Decisions, Decisions

Using Semantic Relations to Refine Coreference Decisions

We present a novel mechanism for improving reference resolution by using the output of a relation tagger to rescore coreference hypotheses. Experiments show that this new framework can improve performance on two quite different languages -English and Chinese.

Decisions, decisions

Journals are exploring new approaches to peer review in order to reduce bias, increase transparency and respond to author preferences. Funders are also getting involved.

Decisions, decisions

Funding decisions

Funding decision is one of the financial strategic decisions of a corporation. There are also two other finan-cial strategic decisions that a corporation faces, the investment and the dividend decision. This paper de-scribes briefly the investment and the dividend decision, although its main focus is on funding decision. In de-scribing the funding decision the researchers will first explain the...

In This Issue: Decisions, Decisions.

This issue of Annals sheds light on patient and clinician decisions and their implications. Hendriksen and colleagues compare family physicians’ gestalt (estimated probability) of pulmonary embolism compared to the Wells decision rule among patients referred for testing. Gestalt performs surprisingly well. The Wells rule is more specific, and almost as sensitive as physicians’ gestalt, making i...