What Plato and Murdoch Think About Love

What I think when I think about treebanks

In this opinion piece, I present four somewhat controversial suggestions for the design of future treebanks: a) Treebanks should be based on adversarial samples, rather than pseudorepresentative samples. b) Treebanks should include multiple splits of the data, rather than just a single split, as in most treebanks today. c) They should include multiple annotations of each sentence, whenever poss...

What We Think about Multi-particle Amplitudes

Certain classical solutions which serve as generating functions of tree multi-particle amplitudes are constructed in the KK ahler sigma model. The one-loop contribution to the multi-particle amplitudes is computed as the functional determinant in the background of such a classical eld.Topologically nontrivial solutions, that is generating functions of the instanton mediated multi-particle ampli...

What do faculty and students really think about e-books?

This article reports on a large-scale survey of nearly two thousand faculty and students at one institution, University College London, and profiles their use and perceptions of ebooks. The context for the study is an action research project, CIBER’s SuperBook, that will further investigate the issues raised in this initial benchmarking survey using deep log analysis and qualitative methods. Th...

Cartels, Corporate Compliance, and What Practitioners Really Think About Enforcement

Understanding what patients think about eye care – and our services

All health services must be acceptable to attract patients. If patients and their families do not like the services, or the way in which they are offered, they will not use them! Without patients, our eye service will struggle, and we will not meet our VISION2020 goals. If, like the people at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Tanzania (see panel below), we suspect that people are not comi...