The excellence question

A Curriculum for Excellence: a Question of Values

A Curriculum for Excellence outlines a curriculum for young people in Scotland from age 3 to 18. In the report, endorsed wholly by Scottish ministers, much is made of the underpinning values of the proposed curriculum. However, the absence of any consultation period has meant that such values and the report itself have not been subject to systematic debate by parliament, public, or the educatio...

The UNESCO Seal of Excellence for Handicrafts

The UNESCO Seal of Excellence for Handicrafts

Investigating Embedded Question Reuse in Question Answering

The investigation presented in this paper is a novel method in question answering (QA) that enables a QA system to gain performance through reuse of information in the answer to one question to answer another related question. Our analysis shows that a pair of question in a general open domain QA can have embedding relation through their mentions of noun phrase expressions. We present methods f...

The pursuit of excellence.

AFEW YEARS AGO, I SAW IN MY CLINIC A PATIENT who had recently had undergone a Fontan procedure for tricuspid atresia. His mother did all the talking. She was really pleased with the result of the operation. “For the first time he can keep up with me when we go shopping”, she explained. Gratifying, I suppose, but afterwards I had a deep sense of failure about the patient. He was 53-yearsold, and...