BACKGROUND Extraction of clinical information such as medications or problems from clinical text is an important task of clinical natural language processing (NLP). Rule-based methods are often used in clinical NLP systems because they are easy to adapt and customize. Recently, supervised machine learning methods have proven to be effective in clinical NLP as well. However, combining different ...

Replication and majority voting are well-known and widely-used methods for achieving fault-tolerance in distributed systems. An open area of investigation is coordinating the voting in a secure manner, so as to withstand malicious attacks. The Timed-Buffer Distributed Voting Algorithm (TB-DVA), a secure distributed voting protocol, is introduced for this purpose. It is contrasted with several o...

The literature on judgment aggregation has now been moving from studying impossibility results regarding aggregation rules towards studying specific judgment aggregation rules. Here we focus on a family of rules that is the natural counterpart of the family of Condorcetconsistent voting rules: majority-preserving judgment aggregation rules. A judgment aggregation rule is majority-preserving if ...

This paper incorporates a model of corporate control into a general equilibrium framework for production economies with incomplete markets. The classical objective of value maximization is extended, but is indeterminate. Instead, firms are viewed as being subject to shareholder control via some decision mechanism. As long as this decision mechanism is responsive to a unanimous preference by sha...

Unlike in the standard jury voting experiment, the voting environment in practice has no explicit signal structure. Voters then need to conceptualize the information structure in order to update their beliefs based on “pivotal reasoning.” This paper investigates whether voters can play a strategic voting under a “detail-free” environment. We obtain non-parametric predictions in terms of the dif...

Theoretical analysis suggests that enlargement of a voting body may affect the balance of power between the original members even if their number of votes and the decision rule remain constant. Some of the existing voters may actually gain, a phenomenon known as the paradox of newmembers.We test for this effect using laboratory experiments. Participants propose and vote on how to divide a budge...