I am delighted to be invited to comment on the use of P-values, but at the same time, it depresses me. Why? So much brainpower, ink, and passion have been expended on this subject for so long, yet plus ca change, plus c’ést le meme chose – the more things change, the more they stay the same. The references on this topic encompass innumerable disciplines, going back almost to the moment that P-v...

Interactive or Incremental Statistical Machine Translation (IMT) aims to provide a mechanism that allows the statistical models involved in the translation process to be incrementally updated and improved. The source of knowledge normally comes from users who either post-edit the entire translation or just provide the translations for wrongly translated domain-specific terminologies. Most of th...

Medical error reporting systems have been in place for decades, with the hope that the collected reports would help us understand the nature of errors and prevent similar errors from occurring in the future. Among the various types of reporting systems, a voluntary system leaves the decision about whether to report a detected error or not to healthcare providers. Naturally, not every detected e...