South America" is considerably more general and simply comments on what is known about what had happened in the past and what has been observed in recent expeditions rather than attempting a compilation. Few aspects of medical investigation are untouched by this book and the discussions and references range from the high estrogen levels in African Bushmen to high altitude performance to the gen...

Online news platforms curate high-quality content for their readers and, in many cases, users can post comments in response. While comment threads routinely contain unproductive banter, insults, or users “shouting” over each other, there are often good discussions buried among the noise. In this paper, we define a new task of identifying “good” conversations, which we call ERICs—Engaging, Respe...

With the popularity of Web 2.0, comments left by readers on web documents have drawn much attention. In this paper, we study the problem of comments-oriented document summarization, which aims to summarize a web document by considering not only its content but also the comments. Generally, most of the comments usually convey one or a few aspects of the document. Given a sentence set from both t...

Note to readers. What follows are drafts of six chapters of our book in progress, Seductions and Shortcuts: Fallacies in the Cognitive Economy, which is volume 3 of our omnibus work, A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems, published by Elsevier/NorthHolland. The six chapters that appear here have been drafted as stand-alone pieces, and they have not yet been integrated into a smoothly flowing u...

At the November 2005 meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA), I participated in a panel discussion on Arland Thornton’s new book, Reading History Sideways: the Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life (Chicago, 2005). In January 2006, Thornton posted a lengthy response to my comments on his website, along with five other working papers that addre...

This study investigates the implementation of peer feedback in writing class. The participants were EFL students a private university Surabaya who took essay subject academic year 2020-2021. found that was perceived as positive activity for performance. Students preferred because several reasons, such as: to detect problems, write better terms grammar, analyze and paragraph development spelling...

Visualizations play a considerable role in explaining trends or providing evidence when consuming data online. Whether those visualizations are shared on news outlets social networks, platforms usually allow readers to discuss their stories comments sections. For the scope of this work, we studied online communityr/dataisbeautiful Reddit. We found that chart creators were using variety authorin...