What online data say about eating habits

What Snippets Say About Pages

We summarize findings from [1]. What is the likelihood that a Web page is considered relevant to a query, given the relevance assessment of the corresponding snippet? Using a new Federated Web Search test collection that contains search results from over a hundred search engines on the internet, we are able to investigate such research questions from a global perspective. Our test collection co...

What Homophones Say about Words

The number of potential meanings for a new word is astronomic. To make the word-learning problem tractable, one must restrict the hypothesis space. To do so, current word learning accounts often incorporate constraints about cognition or about the mature lexicon directly in the learning device. We are concerned with the convexity constraint, which holds that concepts (privileged sets of entitie...

What Can Programming Languages Say About Data Exchange?

Data Exchange, defined generally, is the process of taking data structured under one schema and transforming it into data structured under another independent schema. This process is present in enough scenarios both theoretical and practical that it has been addressed in many different ways. Most prominent amongst the solutions to the problem is that proposed by database literature, in which on...

What's eating us about what we're eating.

In order to assess the time at which the distant metastases were initiated, a model has been developed to simulate the natural history of human breast cancer. The metastasis appearance curves were fitted to those observed for tumours of various sizes among the 2648 patients treated at the Institut Gustave Roussy from 1954 to 1972. The model assumes that metastases are initiated when the tumour ...

What Does the Cochrane Collabroation Say About…