Experts often play a fundamental role in decision-making processes. They are the bearers of an epistemic authority, which is primarily grounded on what we may call scientific naturalism. The main tenets this view can clash though with other values characterising our pluralist societies. This lead to conflicts but also devaluation or rejection sort knowledge and advise offered by experts. In pap...

We consider a cross-calibration test of predictions by multiple potential experts in a stochastic environment. This test checks whether each expert is calibrated conditional on the predictions made by other experts. We show that this test is good in the sense that a true expert—one informed of the true distribution of the process—is guaranteed to pass the test no matter what the other potential...

In this work, we propose a generalized product of experts (gPoE) framework for combining the predictions of multiple probabilistic models. We identify four desirable properties that are important for scalability, expressiveness and robustness, when learning and inferring with a combination of multiple models. Through analysis and experiments, we show that gPoE of Gaussian processes (GP) have th...

Earthquake engineering becomes a media issue for the four/six weeks which follow a catastrophic event. These periods of interaction between the societal actors and the topic experts is fruitful in terms of understanding how the scientists should arrange a state of the art. In particular, after the Central Italy event of April 6, 2009, among others, the following items arose: how coarse has to b...

MPEG-7 (Moving Picture Experts Group Phase 7) is an XML-based international standard on semantic description of multimedia content. This document discusses the Linguistic DS and related tools. The linguistic DS is a tool, based on the GDA tag set (http://i-content.org/GDA/tagset.html), for semantic annotation of linguistic data in or associated with multimedia content. The current document text...

Given the concerns of parents, students, and the educational system as a whole, in regards to the selection of field of study by the high school students, factors affecting these selections become of interest to all those involved. Based on the socio-educational foundation of the study, a group of 25 experts in education and field selection in Ilam Province was interviewed. Findings consist of ...

A database of non-native German productions was annotated by three different groups: by experts using detailed, localised labels as well as coarse, global labels, and by phoneticians and naı̈ve subjects, using the same coarse global labels. For the detailed annotation, segmental and supra-segmental labels were given segment-based and word-based. The global annotation consisted of a turn-based as...