What Would Parsons Say About Mobbing?

WWTS (What Would Turing Say?)

If you are reading these words, surely you are already familiar with the Imitation Game proposed by Alan Turing (1950). Or are you? Turing was heavily influenced by the World War II “game” of allied and axis pilots and ground stations each trying to fool the enemy into thinking they were friendlies. So his imagined test for AI involved an interrogator being told that he or she was about to inte...

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...

Health records and privacy: what would Hippocrates say?

What Does the Cochrane Collabroation Say About…