Quantity vs Quality

Semi-Supervised Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation: Quality vs. Quantity

In this paper, we discuss the importance of the quality against the quantity of automatically extracted examples for word sense disambiguation (WSD). We first show that we can build a competitive WSD system with a memory-based classifier and a feature set reduced to easily and efficiently computable features. We then show that adding automatically annotated examples improves the performance of ...

Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion By Platforms With Network Effects

This paper provides a simple model of platforms with direct network effects, in which users value not just the quantity (i.e. number) of other users who join, but also their average quality in some dimension. A monopoly platform is more likely to exclude low-quality users when users place more value on average quality and less value on total quantity. With competing platforms, the effect of use...

Higher Education and Sustainable Development: Quality vs. Quantity

This paper focuses on the outcome of higher education translated into the creation of both physical and social capital. Optimally apportioned quality and quantity of each of the two broad forms of capital ensures sustainable development of a society. The institutions of higher learning, specifically in the modern world, are universally considered to be the service industries responsible for con...

Quality and Quantity Competition

Between Quality and Quantity:

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