Fine-tuned matching net 0.645±0.019 0.755±0.024 0.793±0.013 0.827±0.011 Ours: fine-tune + adv. 0.702±0.020 0.800±0.013 0.804±0.014 0.831±0.013 Ours: full model 0.917±0.007 0.936±0.006 0.942±0.006 0.950±0.004 Label-Efficient Learning of Transferable Representations across Domains and Tasks Zelun Luo1, Yuliang Zou2, Judy Hoffman3, Li Fei-Fei1 1 Stanford University 2 Virginia Tech 3 University of ...

Our team submitted runs for the first running of the TREC Temporal Summarization track. TS Track at TREC2013 contains two tasks, namely Sequential update Summarization and value tracking. Our Systems to each task are described in this paper respectively. In particular, Stanford CoreNLP was applied to extract the event attributes.

Although in theory, elections are supposed to prevent criminal or venal candidates from winning or retaining office, in practice voters frequently elect and re-elect such candidates. This surprising pattern is sometimes explained by reference to voters’ underlying preferences, which are thought to favor criminal or corrupt candidates because of the patronage they provide. This paper tests this ...

Dramatic increases in the United States' inmate population has raised new concerns about prison crowding. Although growth in prison capacity has lagged slightly behind that of the inmate population, there is no consistent evidence that crowding is associated with mortality, morbidity (defined as clinic utilization), recidivism, violence, or other pathological behaviors. This paper reviews the m...

John Topp, who died on 23 February 2016, was a Principal Medical Officer who was one of the first to draw attention to the increased rate of suicide among the prison population. In the late 1970s, he showed that suicide was three times as common in prisoners as in the general population, that it was most common in those with sentences longer than 18 months and that the greatest risk was in the ...

AIM To assess whether the introduction of a prison-based opioid substitution therapy (OST) policy was associated with a reduction in drug-related deaths (DRD) within 14 days after prison release. DESIGN Linkage of Scotland's prisoner database with death registrations to compare periods before (1996-2002) and after (2003-07) prison-based OST was introduced. SETTING All Scottish prisons. PA...

We criticize our CASSANDRA architecture as innexible and incapable of supporting communications in any realistic sense. We argue for our position and propose a new agent structure.

Although previous studies indicate that perceived similarity can influence perceptions of source credibility, less is known about the impact of ethnic identity on these perceptions in social media environments. A quasi-experiment was designed to manipulate the strength of ethnic identity of an African American spokesperson promoting a health news story. The results indicate a substantive condit...