Ranked lists of output trees from syntactic statistical NLP applications frequently contain multiple repeated entries. This redundancy leads to misrepresentation of tree weight and reduced information for debugging and tuning purposes. It is chiefly due to nondeterminism in the weighted automata that produce the results. We introduce an algorithm that determinizes such automata while preserving...

Nonlinear distribution methods have changed the way that media content is consumed, with viewers now able to watch entire series in a few sittings. To develop a better understanding of how African Americans are portrayed on nonlinear distribution platforms, a content analysis was performed on the top five shows from Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. Findings suggest that online streaming platfor...

In a handout entitled "Conditionals in Possible Worlds: Times Three" for a talk at NASSLI on June 29, 2002, Stanley Peters reported results that are based on a misrepresentation of definitions from my 1989 paper "An Investigation of the Lumps of Thought". The results reported in the handout are not derivable from the original definitions. A crucial relativization to a parameter was dropped. The...

As medical students, we have seen considerable misrepresentation of FM and regard this as a marketing failure in the early years of medical school. Negative aspects are often exaggerated, and positive characteristics are downplayed. Undersold features include FM’s opportunity for diversity and flexibility of career, challenge of practice, and ability to “hold its own” alongside any other medica...