La Salle Basketball Women\u27s Media Guide 1998-99

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La Salle Basketball Women\u27s Media Guide 1999-2000

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Law Clerks Out of Context

[Excerpt] “In a previous article, I examined judicial opinions in cases in which law clerks have gone wild, principally by doing things that law clerks just aren‘t supposed to do, such as convening court, conducting independent factual investigations into matters before their judges, or leaking drafts of opinions to the press. Here, I focus on opinions in federal cases that discuss two other categories of unusual law-clerk activity, serving as a source of evidence, and going to court, as a litigant. The article is informed by my ten years of experience as a trial court law clerk in the state and federal courts of New Hampshire. Things that caught my eye, and made it into the article, are incidents I read about in judicial opinions that struck me as very different from anything I had ever seen or heard about through the law-clerk grapevine. My purpose is two-fold. First, many of the opinions I discuss are downright entertaining. But beyond that, the unusual fact patterns that make those opinions entertaining also serve to point out things that might happen to a law clerk that are not covered in law school or the typical law-clerk training program. Accordingly, I intend for the article to have a practical dimension that underpins its entertainment value. In Part II, I explore opinions in which law clerks have become sources of evidence in cases they were working on, as producers of exhibits, as affiants, or as witnesses. In discussing those opinions, I focus on both the process by which law clerks have become sources of evidence and the topics on which they have been asked to give evidence. Part III is devoted to cases in which law clerks have been litigants, and it serves as a guide to situations in which litigation is, and is not, a productive option for a law clerk who believes that he or she has been wronged.

La Salle Women\u27s Basketball Media Guide 1997-98

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Active Learning for Natural Language Generation

The field of text generation suffers from a severe shortage of labeled data due to the extremely expensive and time consuming process involved in manual annotation. A natural approach for coping with this problem is active learning (AL), a well-known machine learning technique for improving annotation efficiency by selectively choosing the most informative examples to label. However, while AL has been well-researched in the context of text classification, its application to text generation remained largely unexplored. In this paper, we present a first systematic study of active learning for text generation, considering a diverse set of tasks and multiple leading AL strategies. Our results indicate that existing AL strategies, despite their success in classification, are largely ineffective for the text generation scenario, and fail to consistently surpass the baseline of random example selection. We highlight some notable differences between the classification and generation scenarios, and analyze the selection behaviors of existing AL strategies. Our findings motivate exploring novel approaches for applying AL to NLG tasks

Stuff happens: a material culture approach to textile conservation

Textile conservation, defined here as the preservation, investigation andpresentation of textiles, is often viewed largely as a technical andaesthetic problem. This research develops an alternative view byunderstanding objects as being subject to both material and socialchange. The dynamic aspects of this material and social process isemphasised as ‘stuff happens’. This research proposes, and providesevidence for, a material culture approach to textile conservation, anddemonstrates its development and application. An analysis of case studiesshows how the material and the social interact at the point of assessmentand intervention. Examination of the material aspects of textileconservation reveals that social values influence decision-making. Valuesheld at the time of conservation are shown to depend on the categoriesused. Investigation of these categories demonstrates that any anomalousquality of the textile undergoing conservation allows for contestation ofsocial values. As values change over time, analysis of each conservationassessment and intervention reveals a comparison of values held atdifferent times viewed retrospectively. The resulting approach is centredon the interaction between things, persons and language where eachmediates relations of the others. It is argued that this material cultureapproach enhances understanding of the dynamic material and socialenvironment of textile conservation principles and practices

La Salle Women\u27s Basketball 2000-2001

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