How we can make ecotoxicology more valuable to environmental protection

Can We Make Information Extraction More Adaptive?

It seems widely agreed that IE (Information Extraction) is now a tested language technology that has reached precision+recall values that put it in about the same position as Information Retrieval and Machine Translation , both of which are widely used commercially. There is also a clear range of practical applications that would be eased by the sort of template-style data that IE provides. The...

Commentary: how can we make diagnosis safer?.

Diagnostic errors are common and are a leading cause of patient dissatisfaction and malpractice suits. Because of its traditional heavy reliance on memory and lack of standardization, the diagnostic process is particularly error prone. A study by Zwaan and colleagues on diagnostic failures in treating dyspneic patients makes several important contributions: examining the process behind the diag...

How can we make them work ?

How fast can we make interpreted Python?

Python is a popular dynamic language with a large part of its appeal coming from powerful libraries and extension modules. These augment the language and make it a productive environment for a wide variety of tasks, ranging from web development (Django) to numerical analysis (NumPy). Unfortunately, Python’s performance is quite poor when compared to modern implementations of languages such as L...

How Can Personality Factors Contribute to Make Agents More ‘Believable’?