Taxonomizing and Measuring Representational Harms: A Look at Image Tagging

A new look at measuring dependence

This paper revisits the concept of dependence. We view statistical dependence as the state of variables being influenced by others. Our viewpoint accords well with the daily understanding of the notion of dependence, while classical dependence measures such as Pearson’s correlation coefficient, Kendall’s τ and Spearman’s ρ have different meanings. With this understanding of dependence, we intro...

A Closer Look at Boosted Image Retrieval

Margin-maximizing techniques such as boosting have been generating excitement in machine learning circles for several years now. Although these techniques offer significant improvements over previous methods on classification tasks, little research has examined the application of techniques such as boosting to the problem of retrieval from image and video databases. This paper looks at boosting...

Measuring community empowerment: a fresh look at organizational domains.

In 1986, the Ottawa Charter identified community empowerment as being a central theme of health promotion discourse. Community empowerment became a topical issue in the health promotion literature soon afterwards, though its roots also come from earlier literature in community psychology, community organizing and liberation education. Subsequent international conferences to address health promo...

A Look at the Challenges of Boundary-Spanner Academic Leaders

The present study was an exploratory sequential mixed method approach, so the qualitative section of the study was done by descriptive phenomenology method. The participants in the qualitative section included academic administrators with managerial experience who by criterion sampling and saturation in the research findings, 12 were selected for the interview. Research tools in the section wer...

A Different Look at Peer-Reviewing of Articles