More reflections on compactness

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More Reflections on "Aboutness" TREC-2001 Evaluation Experiments at Justsystem

The TREC-2001 Web track evaluation experiments at the Justsystem site are described with a focus on the “aboutness” based approach in text retrieval. In the web ad hoc task, our TREC-9 approach is adopted again, combining both pseudo-relevance feedback and reference database feedback but the setting is calibrated for an early precision preferred search. For the entry page finding task, we combi...

Reflections on quality issues: quality becomes ever more complex.

W hen I became Chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1998, the medical audit bandwagon, largely based on College values, had run out of steam. A new more sinister one — the identification and weeding out of poor performance was running strongly. This was partly fuelled by the Bristol paediatric cardiothoracic surgery case, and the subsequent Kennedy report, 1 partly by the S...

On Compactness Theorem

In this talk we investigate the compactness theorem (as a property) in non-classical logics. We focus on the following problems: (a) What kind of semantics make a logic having compactnesss theorem? (b) What is the relationship between the compactness theorem and the classical model existence theorem (CME)/model existence theorem?

Reflections on Reflections

The graduate student workshop ''Buddhist Art: Objects and Contexts'' was an unusual event. Like Reflections of the Buddha, the exhibition it addressed, it was in constant dialogue with its physical setting, the singular Tadao Ando ¯ building home to the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, as the four sessions moved through the four galleries in changing light. The event was also distinguished by ...