Mechanical Turk is useful for generating complex speech resources like conversational speech transcription. In this work, we explore the next step of eliciting narrations of Wikipedia articles to improve accessibility for low-literacy users. This task proves a useful test-bed to implement qualitative vetting of workers based on difficult to define metrics like narrative quality. Working with th...

Mechanical Turk is useful for generating complex speech resources like conversational speech transcription. In this work, we explore the next step of eliciting narrations of Wikipedia articles to improve accessibility for low-literacy users. This task proves a useful test-bed to implement qualitative vetting of workers based on difficult to define metrics like narrative quality. Working with th...

this paper has studied motahari's point of view  on the divine revelation as a methodological problem. in islamic philosophers' point of view, divine revelation is result of :union: of prophet and active intellect. they consider the divine revelation as knowledge and emphasize its cognitive identity. on the other hand, some scholars reduce the divine revelation to tendencies and empha...

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I study a simple model of moral hazard with soft information. The risk-averse agent takes an action and she alone observes the stochastic outcome; hence the principal faces a problem of ex post adverse selection. Some measure of truthful revelation is necessary to implement any effort, for which an audit is required. And for effort to be induced the agent must be offered a rent. There exists a ...

The handiwork and the glory of God displayed by the heavens and the firmament have been called General Divine Revelation. In this category one may also include the constitution of human personality, for man himself is a creation of God and in some sense bears the marks of his Creator. This “light of nature and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and pow...

Aim. The paper presents the study of narrations of schizophrenic patients focused on the description of activities characteristics. The aim is to answer the question of how experiencing of psychotic crisis influences the perception of their authorship. Do the inherent characteristics of the activity differ with reference to the period of life which they relate to: the time before getting sick, ...

AIM The paper presents the study of narrations of schizophrenic patients focused on the description of activities characteristics. The aim is to answer the question of how experiencing of psychotic crisis influences the perception of their authorship. Do the inherent characteristics of the activity differ with reference to the period of life which they relate to: the time before getting sick, o...