News from the NA61/SHINE experiment

Cross Language Information Retrieval: an Experiment in Bilingual News Article Alignment from the Internet using MT

Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) o ers the potential for users to search document collections in foreign languages. This is particularly relevant now that the Internet has become a global information source. Machine translation (MT) has a key role in bridging the gap between the language of the users' query and that of the document collection as well as to help the user understand th...

News from the Field

B O S T O N UNIVERSITY LIB R AR Y has been given a valuable collection of Lincoln letters, documents a n d related materials, number ing eighty-six items. Of special interest is an order to Genera l Winf ie ld Scott to susp e n d the writ of habeas corpus. T h e donor is the H o n o r a b l e Edward C. Stone, a member of the Massachusetts Senate a n d chairm a n of the Board of Trus tees of the...

News from the Archives

Why do so many scientific research articles languish in obscurity? There is no single answer. No doubt many have earned their ignominy by their flawed scholarship, poor exposition, or arcane subject matter, but this is not always the case. A search of the old literature often uncovers many seemingly worthy contributions that have inexplicably fallen into oblivion. Probably the most common reaso...

News from the field

News from the field

The precision of our discriminations varies with stimulus length (Weber, 1851), such that we can notice both when the school clock is 5 min late with its hourly chime as well as when a musical note is played half a beat late (~0.3 s, in a mid-tempo song). Exactly how we appropriately scale the precision of our discriminations remains something of a mystery, but perhaps even more mysterious is h...