In a New York Times op-ed earlier this year (April 9, 2003), Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation has proposed that Iraq establish an Alaska-style oil fund that would pay annual dividends to the citizens of Iraq.ii In Alaska, revenues from oil leases have been invested in a permanent fund, which has grown to $23.5 billion in 2002; part of the fund’s income is now distributed directly to ...

This paper presents an analysis of argumentation strategies in news editorials within and across topics. Given nearly 29,000 argumentative editorials from the New York Times, we develop two machine learning models, one for determining an editorial’s topic, and one for identifying evidence types in the editorial. Based on the distribution and structure of the identified types, we analyze the usa...

Anna Fels is a practicing psychiatrist who has written on psychiatric and medical topics for the New York Times Book Review, The (London) Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Self, the Science Times section of The New York Times, and most recently the Harvard Business Review. She is a member of the faculty of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

This article compares coverage by The New York Times of Jackie Robinson’s groundbreaking entry into Major League Baseball with the participation of four women athletes in male-only sporting spaces. This comparison and analysis reveals the role of this specific print media in naturalizing sex differences that justify sex segregation and gender injustice; in contrast to media discourse that corre...

in this article, by using chebyshev’s polynomials and chebyshev’s expansion, we obtain the best uniform polynomial approximation out of p2n to a class of rational functions of the form (ax2+c)-1 on any non symmetric interval [d,e]. using the obtained approximation, we provide the best uniform polynomial approximation to a class of rational functions of the form (ax2+bx+c)-1 for both cases b2-4a...

Mainland China participated in 2009 in the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) tests for the first time since PISA started to be administered internationally by the OECD in 2000. China was represented by students from Shanghai. Shanghai took first place in all three major categories: reading, science, and mathematics. The PISA tests are given every 3 years to a large sample of...

We examine the extent to which we are able to automatically identify constructive online comments. We build several classifiers using New York Times Picks as positive examples and non-constructive thread comments from the Yahoo News Annotated Comments Corpus as negative examples of constructive online comments. We evaluate these classifiers on a crowdannotated corpus containing 1,121 comments. ...

This study was designed to compare the coverage of Viagra by newspapers in South Korea and the United States, considering that different sexual cultures exist in these two countries. A total of 421 articles from four major newspapers, Chosun Ilbo and Dong-A Ilbo in Korea and The New York Times and USA Today in the United States, were analyzed. It was found that Korean newspapers covered Viagra ...

The task of Coreference (CO) had its origins in Semeval, an attempt after MUC-5 to define semantic research tasks that needed to be solved to be successful at generating scenario templates. In the MUC evaluations, only coreference of type identity was marked and scored [3]. The following example from MUC-7 (New York Times News Service) illustrates identity coreference between "its" and "The U.K...