Preprints—Yes You Can

‘ You Can Always Look It up ’ . . . or Can You ?

Auntie Mame with its Park Avenue version of my progressive experience, you will know that progressive theories in the 1940s were mainly confined to private schools; they hadn't seeped very far into the public school domain. At Metairie Park, my entire ninth-grade curriculum consisted of two " integrated, " " multidisciplinary " projects, as they would now be called. They were: participating in ...

So you think you can edit?

This article presents one scientist's perspective on the transition from life at the bench to an editorial career.

Can You Tag the Modal? You Should

Computational linguistics methods are typically first developed and tested in English. When applied to other languages, assumptions from English data are often applied to the target language. One of the most common such assumptions is that a “standard” part-of-speech (POS) tagset can be used across languages with only slight variations. We discuss in this paper a specific issue related to the d...

Can you believe what you read?

What you can't see can hurt you!

What You Can’t See Can Hurt You! Summer is here, the weather is warm and thoughts turn to sandy beaches and sunbathing as well as outdoor sports. While we may think to protect our skin from sunlight, we tend to forget about the eye. Both visible and invisible or ultraviolet (UV) portions of sunlight can damage the eye, lids and surrounding skin. The nature of the injury varies with the amount a...