What the data say about border closures and COVID spread

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 Does the Cochrane Collabroation Say About…

What the eyes say about speaking.

To study the time course of sentence formulation, we monitored the eye movements of speakers as they described simple events. The similarity between speakers' initial eye movements and those of observers performing a nonverbal event-comprehension task suggested that response-relevant information was rapidly extracted from scenes, allowing speakers to select grammatical subjects based on compreh...