Review: The Newspaper Editor and Other Stories by Rebecca Chua

Skimming Newspaper Stories by Computer

Automatic Headline Generation for Newspaper Stories

In this paper we propose a novel application of Hidden Markov Models to automatic generation of informative headlines for English texts. We propose four decoding parameters to make the headlines appear more like Headlinese, the language of informative newspaper headlines. We also allow for morphological variation in words between headline and story English. Informal and formal evaluations indic...

Values in Nordic Newspaper Editor Decision-making

The study shows that Nordic daily newspapers—like their American peers—will have to change their content to conform more to the tastes of readers or—at the very least—find a more reader-friendly way to present the news. The authors compare national surveys of Nordic and U.S. editors charged with the practical aspects of choosing, justifying, editing, and publishing the news. In a search for val...

Review of "The blood-brain and other neural barriers reviews and protocols" by Sukriti Nag (Editor)

This is a review of the content and scope of a multi-author volume for readers with an interest in the structure and function of the blood-brain barrier and in drug delivery to the central nervous system.

Doting on Data Book Review by Rebecca Goldin

The game is an example of a super cruncher, a computer equipped with huge amounts of data that it can analyze and use to make predictions. The theme of the book Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ian Ayres is that super crunchers are better than humans at predicting outcomes—from whether a computer user will click on an ad to how good the wine will be this year.