In an incremental NLP pipeline every module needs to work incrementally. However, an incremental processing mode can lead to a degradation of accuracy due to the missing context to the right. We discuss three properties of incremental output that can be traded for accuracy, namely timeliness, monotonicity and decisiveness. The consequences of these trade-offs are evaluated systematically for th...

This paper develops a new approach to the analysis of the underlying power structure when social preferences are allowed to be incomplete. We propose the concept of quasi-decisiveness, which is weaker than standard decisiveness, and investigate the family of quasi-decisive groups associated an Arrovian collective choice rule. A group is quasi-decisive if for every pair x, y of alternatives, y i...

Leadership is often associated with a particular form of decision-making: being decisive. This paper reflects on the limits decisiveness and role incrementalism in Russian decision to invade Ukraine West NATO’s decision-making over prior 10 years. It suggests that both legitimate mode significant problem such scenarios, focuses historical context explain subsequent military failures.

Personal injury victims involved in compensation processes have a worse recovery than those not involved in compensation processes. One predictor for worse recovery is lawyer engagement. As some people argue that this negative relation between lawyer engagement and recovery may be explained by lawyers' attitude and communications to clients, it seems important to investigate lawyer-client inter...

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