TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK

New York Medical College.

Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.

The SPURS Intern will be assigned to work closely with an advanced post-doctoral, senior member of a laboratory. Since the SPURS Intern will have already established a substantial interest in biomedical research and will have significant prior experience in laboratory investigation, it is anticipated that the emphasis will be on training in novel techniques specific to the proposed research pro...

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education Teachers College , Columbia University

This paper summarizes the trend toward introducing markets into the education sector. We begin with a brief history of the market reforms and then review recent policy developments related to vouchers, charter schools, tuition tax credits, and educational management organizations. The internal anatomy of markets are then described, recognizing both the possibility of imperfect competition and o...

The Columbia University - New York University Abu Dhabi SIGMORPHON 2016 Morphological Reinflection Shared Task Submission

We present a high-level description and error analysis of the Columbia-NYUAD system for morphological reinflection, which builds on previous work on supervised morphological paradigm completion. Our system improved over the shared task baseline on some of the languages, reaching up to 30% absolute increase. Our ranking on average was 5th in Track 1, 8th in Track 2, and 3rd in Track 3.