Melanoma never says die

Computational Probability : Old Ideas Never Die

Sunscreens do protect against melanoma, says skin cancer specialist.

Sunscreen can help reduce the risk of malignant melanoma, contrary to the finding of a study that received considerable media attention last February, says a skin cancer specialist at Ohio State University’s Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute. "If you’ve heard or read comments to the effect that sunscreens do not protect against malignant melanoma, forget them," said Ronald ...

Old Linguists Never Die, They Only Get Obligatorily Deleted

Martin Kay, in his speech delivered in 2005 on receipt of his ACL Lifetime Achievement Award, specified computational linguistics as follows: “Computational linguistics is trying to do what linguists do in a computational manner” (Kay 2005, page 429). I believe it is a legitimate question for a computational linguist to ask what linguists do. Coming from Prague, it is then quite a natural quest...

#Bigbirds Never Die: Understanding Social Dynamics of Emergent Hashtag

We examine the growth, survival, and context of 256 novel hashtags during the 2012 U.S. presidential debates. Our analysis reveals the trajectories of hashtag use fall into two distinct classes: “winners” that emerge more quickly and are sustained for longer periods of time than other “also-rans” hashtags. We propose a “conversational vibrancy” framework to capture dynamics of hashtags based on...

#Bigbirds Never Die: Understanding Social Dynamics of Emergent Hashtags

We examine the growth, survival, and context of 256 novel hashtags during the 2012 U.S. presidential debates. Our analysis reveals the trajectories of hashtag use fall into two distinct classes: “winners” that emerge more quickly and are sustained for longer periods of time than other “also-rans” hashtags. We propose a “conversational vibrancy” framework to capture dynamics of hashtags based on...