What Laymen Can Ask of Scientists

Ask Not What Your Text Can do For You. Ask What You Can do For Your Text (a Dictionary’s perspective)

Ask not what your REB can do for you; ask what you can do for your REB.

Research ethics boards (REBs) are perhaps the most unloved component of the research endeavour. In this issue of Canadian Family Physician, Kotecha and colleagues (page 1165)1 join a chorus of voices decrying current governance of research by institutional REBs. In their article they describe the experiences of the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network in securing ethics approval....

Ask not what personalized medicine can do for you--ask what you can do for personalized medicine.

BACKGROUND Personalized medicine (PM) aims to offer tailored health care to individuals on the basis of their genetic profile. This paper explores the types of behaviors and practices that citizens are expected to adopt under PM, examines whether such expectations are realistic, and proposes strategies that could support citizens in the adoption of these behaviors. METHODS Recent reports from...

Ask Not What Your SOA Can Do For You --- Ask What You Can Do For Your SOA!

Over the last few articles in JOT, I have focused on discussing the maturity of SOA, and the ever increasing need for a set of best practices to handle the complexities inherent in successfully implementing and realizing an enterprise architecture. As the enteprises' SOA matures, best practices are needed at many different levels encompassing a wide range of artifacts that need to target the ap...

"Ask Not What Textual Entailment Can Do for You..."

We challenge the NLP community to participate in a large-scale, distributed effort to design and build resources for developing and evaluating solutions to new and existing NLP tasks in the context of Recognizing Textual Entailment. We argue that the single global label with which RTE examples are annotated is insufficient to effectively evaluate RTE system performance; to promote research on s...