1. Introduction This essay is an exploratory study of incentives with two-dimensional output. I consider a model in which workers allocate effort across two dimensions: quality and quantity. The monitor can observe quantity perfectly and without cost. While quality comes in divisible units, I assume that observable quality comes in two forms: normal and distinguished. If quality meets a fixed s...

We describe a case study that presents a framework for examining whether Machine Translation (MT) output enables translation professionals to translate faster while at the same time producing better quality translations than without MT output. We seek to find decision factors that enable a translation professional, known as a Paralinguist, to determine whether MT output is of sufficient quality...

Text summarization endeavors to produce a summary version of a text, while maintaining the original ideas. The textual content on the web, in particular, is growing at an exponential rate. The ability to decipher through such massive amount of data, in order to extract the useful information, is a major undertaking and requires an automatic mechanism to aid with the extant repository of informa...

The article describes LIMSI’s submission to the first WMT’16 shared biomedical translation task, focusing on the sole English-French translation direction. Our main submission is the output of a MOSES-based statistical machine translation (SMT) system, rescored with Structured OUtput Layer (SOUL) neural network models. We also present an attempt to circumvent syntactic complexity: our proposal ...

Like many organizations, the health care quality improvement industry is charged with doing more with less. This can only be accomplished by careful scheduling of resources. Geographical differences in adherence to clinical guidelines have been demonstrated. In this paper, geographical analyses are used both to identify regions and providers for healthcare quality improvement targeting and to i...

control of production processes in an industrial environment needs the correct setting of input factors, so that output products with desirable characteristics will be resulted at minimum cost. Moreover, such systems havetomeetset of qualitycharacteristicstosatisfycustomer requirements.Identifyingthemosteffectivefactorsindesignoftheprocesswhichsupportcontinuousandcontinualimprovement isrecently...

An index of health sector outputs should capture the valuable things that the health system produces. Standard national accounting practice is to weight health service outputs by their cost so that they can be aggregated into a single index. Consequently no account is taken of quality changes, defined as changes in the characteristics of health service output which are valued by patients. We pr...

Monitoring speech quality in telephone networks is a two-step procedure. First, all data which are relevant for speech quality have to be measured during network operation. Then, models can be defined which calculate quality indices on the basis of the measurements. This talk will give an overview of monitoring approaches related to speech communication quality, which is one component of the qu...