the distribution of the allophones of /?/in certain contexts involves free variation and gradient preferences. an organized survey was conducted to elicit the judgments of 37 native persian speakers concerning the well-formedness of /?/allophonic behavior in five different phonological positions. the results showed that the differences in judgment between the various categories are not just t...

Abrishami, Oortwijn, and Hofman (AOH) attribute to me a position I do not hold and an argument I did not make. The purpose of this note is make clear what my position actually is and to clarify the main differences between health technology assessment (HTA) and cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA).

Investigations of linguistic meaning rely crucially on truth-value judgments, which assess whether a sentence can truthfully describe given scenario. In investigations language acquisition, judgments are used to both the target knowledge adults have and developing children at different ages. On basis researchers concluded that differences between how resolve ambiguous utterances do so persist u...

Banner advertising is a popular means of promoting products and brands online. Although banner advertisements are often designed to be particularly attention grabbing, they frequently go unnoticed. Applying an eye-tracking procedure, the present research aimed to (a) determine whether presenting human faces (static or animated) in banner advertisements is an adequate tool for capturing consumer...

We compare experts’ judgments of the appropriateness of a treatment (interferon treatment for melanoma) on the basis of important attributes of this disease (thickness, ulceration, lymph node involvement and type of metastases) to a decision analytic model in which the probabilities of deterioration are derived from the medical literature and from epidemiological studies. The comparison is base...

In this paper we propose an iterative approach for inferring a ground truth value of an item from judgments collected form online workers. The method is specifically designed for cases in which the collected labels are ordinal. Our algorithm works by iteratively solving a hard-assignment EM model and later calculating one final expected value after the convergence of the EM procedure.