A scaling procedure for skew-symmetric data is illustrated using results from a survey by the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. These data were discussed in an April 27, 2012 op-ed column from the New York Times by Charles Blow. The op-ed columnist for the New York Times, Charles Blow, is known for his creative graphics and visual representation of data. One of his more recent column...

The latest world-championship competition for computer bridge programs was the Baron Barclay World Bridge Computer Challenge, hosted in July 1997 by the American Contract Bridge League. As reported in The New York Times and The Washington Post, the competition’s winner was a new version of Great Game Products’ Bridge Baron program. This version, Bridge Baron 8, has since gone on the market; and...

One of the earliest decisions on this subject opines that the “all or nothing” rule provides a “blanket release from liability for doctors and hospitals any time there was less than a 50 percent chance of survival, regardless of how flagrant the negligence.”7 Another more recent decision notes that the “all or nothing” approach “fails to recognize the common sense proposition that a loss of cha...

This paper proposes a novel approach for relation extraction from free text which is trained to jointly use information from the text and from existing knowledge. Our model is based on scoring functions that operate by learning low-dimensional embeddings of words, entities and relationships from a knowledge base. We empirically show on New York Times articles aligned with Freebase relations tha...

In 1985 the mathematician Boris Weisfeiler disappeared while hiking alone in a remote area of Chile. At the time, he was a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University and was widely recognized for his work in algebraic groups. What happened to him remains a mystery, and to this day it is not known whether he is still alive. Born in the Soviet Union, Weisfeiler received his Ph.D. i...

We present a working system for large scale quantitative narrative analysis (QNA) of news corpora, which includes various recent ideas from text mining and pattern analysis in order to solve a problem arising in computational social sciences. The task is that of identifying the key actors in a body of news, and the actions they perform, so that further analysis can be carried out. This step is ...

What is at stake when we speak about freedom of the press "is the freedom to perform a function on behalf of the polity.'' Lewis cites Supreme Court Justice Powell, who observed: "no individual can obtain for himself the information needed for the intelligent discharge of his political responsibilities.... By enabling the public to assert meaningful control over the political process, the press...

A growing number of Web sites are maintained by content management software and thus a large number of Web pages are machine-generated via templates. Normally in such Web pages there is implicitly a fixed “schema” and what changes is the content. Informally a schema for a Web page represents concepts and relationships among them in a hierarchical fashion. For example, Figure 1 is a screen shot ...

This paper examines whether minimum competency school accountability systems, such as those created under No Child Left Behind, influence the distribution of student achievement. Because school ratings in these systems only incorporate students’ test scores via pass rates, this type of system increases incentives for schools to improve the performance of students who are on the margin of passin...

Newspaper editorials constitute a part of media discourse, which is an extremely important field of research in both intercultural rhetoric analysis and EFL/ESL studies. Specifically, certain features of editorial headlines and also their important role in monitoring and directing readers' attention have made the interface between the linguistic analysis of newspaper editorial headlines and tea...