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Times flies and it has been close to five and a half years since I became the editor-in-chief of Computational Linguistics on 15 July 2018. In this editorial, I will describe the changes that I have introduced at the journal, and highlight the achievements and challenges of the journal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What remains of the North American avant-garde of the 1960s and '70s? Certainly many more films than filmmakers, but a paper trail as well. Housed in museums, university libraries, film archives, and personal collections across the United States and Canada, a decentralized and ever-expanding set of documents and ephemera is shaping and informing numerous research-based projects in curation, academic scholarship, and film restoration. And yet, in contrast to this contemporary trend, the collected papers of Michael Snow at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto have yet to be explored in depth. A notable exception is Elizabeth Legge's monograph on Snow's Wavelength (1967), which cites some of the notes he kept during the film's conceptualization and production. 2 Because the analysis of those notes was not one of Legge's primary objectives, however, her book reproduces only three of the pages in Snow's Wavelength file. The occasion of Snow's recent passing will doubtless be met by various forms of retrospection, and this small contribution to that extended moment of reflection makes available in print a greater number of the Wavelength files than have previously been published. They represent a rare instance of a canonical avant-garde film's being accompanied by a significant corpus of scribblings, illustrations, and diagrams. This selection, comprising twenty-four pages taken from the filmmaker's unbound notes, introduces some of the themes and questions that Snow was putting to paper during the project's year of gestation. Below, I offer a few remarks on those pages. They are admittedly somewhat arbitrary, but they are intended to bring to light some of the archive's lesser-known revelations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using a panel data set from 2007 to 2019, we empirically evaluate the impact of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology innovation on green total factor productivity (GTFP). The findings show that (1) CCUS technology innovation significantly improves GTFP. (2) CCUS technology innovation significantly contributes to GTFP by promoting industrial structure upgrading and carbon emissions efficiency. (3) Environmental regulation plays a positive moderating role in the nexus between CCUS technology innovation and GTFP. The findings of this paper provide guidance for China to achieve green energy transition and build a green energy system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information related to the financial risk in the age of paper and mentions about trompe l’oeil effect that encourages viewers to misread the artwork as a collection of the actual ephemera it represents. It also mentions that satirical images referencing public discourses and debates, was meant to be read as well as viewed; and information about works of art historian Mark Hallett, is given.

Under the Fascist regime, young Italians amused themselves by practicing the war games of adulthood. Paper soldiers marched across board games set in the newly established empire of Italian East Africa. To reveal how these vicious lessons worked, this article examines three types of toys. It starts with the design and deployment of paper soldiers: Italian Alpinisti, Eritrean Ascari, and Somali Dubat. Next, a playbook for The Conquest of Abyssinia boardgame provides a guide to military conquest. Finally, I examine where these toys come from, revealing the financial structures that underpinned colonial propaganda for Fascist government projects. Ultimately, toys wrote scripts for adult violence in the colonies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When choices are made from ordered lists, individuals can exhibit biases toward selecting certain options as a result of the ordering. We examine this phenomenon in the context of consumer response to the ordering of economics papers in an e-mail announcement issued by the NBER. We show that despite the effectively random list placement, papers listed first each week are about 30% more likely to be viewed, downloaded, and subsequently cited. We suggest that a model of "skimming" behavior, where individuals focus on the first few papers in the list due to time constraints, would be most consistent with our findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the impact of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) technology innovation on green total factor productivity (GTFP) in China. The study finds that CCUS technology innovation has a positive effect on GTFP by improving industrial structure and carbon emissions efficiency. Environmental regulations also contribute to this relationship. The author suggests further research to refine the measurement of GTFP and address potential issues in the analysis. They also recommend conducting a heterogeneity analysis and mediation test to understand the mechanism of CCUS technology innovation on GTFP. Overall, this study provides valuable insights into the relationship between CCUS adoption and environmental productivity in China. [Extracted from the article]

Behavioral diversity seen in biological systems is, at the most basic level, driven by interactions between physical materials and their environment. In this context we are interested in falling paper systems, specifically the V-shaped falling paper (VSFP) system that exhibits a set of discrete falling behaviors across the morphological parameter space. Our previous work has investigated how morphology influences dominant falling behaviors in the VSFP system. In this article we build on this analysis to investigate the nature of behavioral transitions in the same system. First, we investigate stochastic behavior transitions. We demonstrate how morphology influences the likelihood of different transitions, with certain morphologies leading to a wide range of possible paths through the behavior-space. Second, we investigate deterministic transitions. To investigate behaviors over longer time periods than available in falling experiments we introduce a new experimental platform. We demonstrate how we can induce behavior transitions by modulating the energy input to the system. Certain behavior transitions are found to be irreversible, exhibiting a form of hysteresis, while others are fully reversible. Certain morphologies are shown to behave like simplistic sequential logic circuits, indicating that the system has a form of memory encoded into the morphology-environment interactions. Investigating the limits of how morphology-environment interactions induce non-trivial behaviors is a key step for the design of embodied artificial life-forms., (© 2021 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.)

Does the materiality of a three-dimensional model have an effect on how this model operates in an exploratory way, how it prompts discovery of new mathematical results? Material mathematical models were produced and used during the second half of the nineteenth century, visualizing mathematical objects, such as curves and surfaces—and these were produced from a variety of materials: paper, cardboard, plaster, strings, wood. However, the question, whether their materiality influenced the status of these models—considered as exploratory, technical, or representational—was hardly touched upon. This article aims to approach this question by investigating two case studies: Beltrami's paper models vs. Dyck's plaster ones of the hyperbolic plane; and Chisini's string models of braids vs. Artin's and Moishezon's algebraization of these braids. These two case studies indicate that materiality might have a decisive role in how the model was taken into account mathematically: either as an exploratory or rather as a technical or pedagogical object. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the authors experience of watching footprints of Trisha Brown.

This article, titled "Comments by Phouphet Kyophilavong on Toward a Green Energy System: How Does Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Technology Innovation Promote Green Total Factor Productivity?" explores the impact of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology innovation on green total factor productivity (GTFP). The author raises questions about the calculation of GTFP and the advantage of using the Global Malmquist-Luenberger (GML) index. They also inquire about the variables and calculation of the CCUS technology innovation index and suggest conducting tests for normality, nonlinearity, and parameter stability. Additionally, the author recommends including more literature on mediating and moderating roles and addressing multicollinearity problems. [Extracted from the article]

Heritage visualizations are works of the cultural imaginary and this paper examines the artwork Artistic License: VR Sydney Cove circa 1800, which foregrounds the interpretive nature of heritage visualization. It is a reimagining in VR of A View of Sydney Cove, New South Wales, 1804, a contemporaneous print of Sydney Cove. Existing in the liminal space between accuracy and authenticity it is both art object and heritage visualization. The dual nature of this work supports engagement with wider audiences, fostering and broadening debate at individual, institutional, academic and societal levels about the nature and role of heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including Project Description; Contemporary Computational Art; Methods/Techniques of Creative Practice; and an artwork to the Art Gallery.

Enhanced Family Tree reimagines the possibilities of family trees with an evolving series of exhibits. The authors' works combine genealogical data, visualization, 3D technologies and interactivity to explore and display ancient genealogical relationships. Their new approach may reveal questionable relationships in genealogical records. Moreover, the authors' use of an organic metaphor of a "tree" can be further extended to increase public understanding and engagement. The audience's questions arising from this project show increased curiosity and nuanced questioning about their own family origins and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the periodical's jury which include Hye Yeon Nam, Jack Stenner and Paul Magee along with an introduction to the journal in which the editor discusses various articles including 3D Woven Textiles, Collaborative Photogrammetry and Sexual Consent in a Multimedia Art Installation.

The article offers information on contemporary art In Uganda. It focuses on empowering women economically while mobilizing new trajectories that reflect the intersecting and shifting landscapes of public space and private space to shape inquiry into gender relationships, art, art-making, and politics; and the hierarchies of art and decorative crafts and their links to women's exclusion from the art scene came under scrutiny. It also focuses on to examine the ways in which paper beads and the process of beading, implicated as symbolic conventions or become very means deployed by women.

In the field of neuroscience, despite the fact that the proportion of peer-reviewed publications authored by women has increased in recent decades, the proportion of citations of women-led publications has not seen a commensurate increase: In five broad-scope journals, citations of papers first- and/or last-authored by women have been shown to be fewer than would be expected if gender was not a factor in citation decisions [Dworkin, J. D., Linn, K. A., Teich, E. G., Zurn, P., Shinohara, R. T., & Bassett, D. S. The extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists. Nature Neuroscience, 23, 918–926, 2020]. Given the important implications that such underrepresentation may have on the careers of women researchers, it is important to determine whether this same trend is true in subdisciplines of the field, where interventions might be more targeted. Here, we report the results of an extension of the analyses carried out by Dworkin et al. (2020) to citation patterns in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. The results indicate that the underrepresentation of women-led publications in reference sections is also characteristic of papers published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience over the past decade. Furthermore, this pattern of citation imbalances is present regardless of author gender, implicating systemic factors. These results contribute to the growing body of evidence that intentional action is needed to address inequities in the way that we carry out and communicate our science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study editorial decisions using anonymized submissions matched to citations at four leading economics journals. We develop a benchmark model in which editors maximize the expected quality of accepted papers and citations are unbiased measures of quality. We then generalize the model to allow different quality thresholds, systematic gaps between citations and quality, and a direct impact of publication on citations. We find that referee recommendations are strong predictors of citations and that editors follow these recommendations closely. We document two deviations from the benchmark model. First, papers by highly published authors receive more citations, conditional on the referees' recommendations and publication status. Second, recommendations of highly published referees are equally predictive of future citations, yet editors give their views significantly more weight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Written for a dispersed agrarian population using hand tools in a local economy, our Constitution now controls an American government orders of magnitude larger that has had to respond to profound changes in transportation, communication, technology, economy, and scientific understanding. How did our government get to this place? The agencies Congress has created to meet these changes now face profound new challenges: transition from the paper to the digital age; the increasing centralization in an opaque, political presidency of decisions that Congress has assigned to diverse, relatively expert and transparent bodies; the thickening, as well, of the political layer within agencies themselves; and the increasing judicial use of analytic techniques invoking the expectations of those who wrote the Constitution so long ago and in such different circumstances. Never easy, finding the appropriate balance between law and politics presents major challenges today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CAVE is a shared narrative six degrees of freedom (6DoF) virtual reality experience. In 3.5 days, 1,927 people attended its premiere at SIGGRAPH 2018. Thirty participants at a time each saw and heard the same narrative from their own individual location in the room, as they would when attending live theater. CAVE set out to disruptively change how audiences collectively experience immersive art and entertainment. Inspired by the social gatherings of theater and cinema, CAVE resonated with viewers in powerful and meaningful ways. Its specific pairing of colocated audiences and physically shared immersive narrative suggests a possible future path for shared cinematic experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

3D printing allows unprecedented freedom in the design and manufacturing of even the most geometric complex forms--seemingly through a simple click of a button. In comparison, the making of glass is an analogue craftsmanship, coordinating an intricate interplay of individual tools and personal skills, giving shape to a material during the short time of its temperature-based plasticity. The two artworks discussed in this article, Augmented Fauna and Glass Mutations, were created during the artist's residence at the Pilchuck Glass School and articulate a synthesis between digital workflows and traditional craft processes to establish a digital craftsmanship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction to a series of art papers that were selected for the Association for Computing Machinery's 2017 Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) Art Papers, including those by Julieta Aguilera, Angus Forbes, and Jon McCormack.

Based on an exponentially increasing number of academic articles, discovering and citing comprehensive and appropriate resources have become non-trivial tasks. Conventional citation recommendation methods suffer from severe information losses. For example, they do not consider the section header of the paper that the author is writing and for which they need to find a citation, the relatedness between the words in the local context (the text span that describes a citation), or the importance of each word from the local context. These shortcomings make such methods insufficient for recommending adequate citations to academic manuscripts. In this study, we propose a novel embedding-based neural network called dual attention model for citation recommendation (DACR) to recommend citations during manuscript preparation. Our method adapts the embedding of three semantic pieces of information: words in the local context, structural contexts, and the section on which the author is working. A neural network model is designed to maximize the similarity between the embedding of the three inputs (local context words, section headers, and structural contexts) and the target citation appearing in the context. The core of the neural network model comprises self-attention and additive attention; the former aims to capture the relatedness between the contextual words and structural context, and the latter aims to learn their importance. Recommendation experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. To seek explainability on DACR, particularly the two attention mechanisms, the learned weights from them are investigated to determine how the attention mechanisms interpret "relatedness" and "importance" through the learned weights. In addition, qualitative analyses were conducted to testify that DACR could find necessary citations that were not noticed by the authors in the past due to the limitations of the keyword-based searching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article lists online books "Paper Revolutions: An Invisible AvantGarde" by Sarah E. James, "L'Ėcrivain et la publicité: Histoire d'une tentation" by Myriam Boucharenc, and "Poétique du patrimoine: Entre Narcisse et Ulysse" by Xavier Greffe and Anne Krebs-Poignant.

An essay is presented that discusses fabrication techniques used in artist Pablo Picasso's cubist art in relation to the notion of objects in time. Topics include techniques used by Picasso to attach paper together using pins and paste as in his artworks "Guitar" (two separate works) and "Man with a Hat," the notion of papiers collés in Picasso's work, and Picasso's use of photography.

Throughout his career, László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) produced many photograms, a selection of which was examined in European and American collections. Sheet dimensions and thickness, base color, surface gloss and texture were recorded. The analysis of the data and the results of this investigation are presented in this article. The article also explores the effectiveness of paper characterization and how it can contribute to and enhance historical research when applied to a particular body of work by one artist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented which discusses articles within the issue on topics including role of the public monument," Diastrophisms sound installation and mixed-reality artwork "Inhabitat."

The BLEU metric has been widely used in NLP for over 15 years to evaluate NLP systems, especially in machine translation and natural language generation. I present a structured review of the evidence on whether BLEU is a valid evaluation technique—in other words, whether BLEU scores correlate with real-world utility and user-satisfaction of NLP systems; this review covers 284 correlations reported in 34 papers. Overall, the evidence supports using BLEU for diagnostic evaluation of MT systems (which is what it was originally proposed for), but does not support using BLEU outside of MT, for evaluation of individual texts, or for scientific hypothesis testing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the views of the author regarding the economic conditions among countries that belong with the political and economic organisation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), particularly in Indonesia and Thailand, and the need for the countries for a transformative reforms. The author mentions the need of Indonesia to reform in terms of infrastructure and human resource development, the new trade paradigm and the constraints of the countries.

The functional inhibition account states that alpha-band (8–14 Hz) power implements attentional control by selectively inhibiting task-irrelevant neural representations. This account has been well supported by decades of correlational research showing attention-related changes in the topography of alpha power in anticipation of task-relevant stimuli and is a viable theory of how attention impacts sensory processing, namely, via alpha power changes in sensory areas before stimulus onset. In addition, attention is known to modulate neural responses to stimuli themselves. Thus, a critical prediction of the functional inhibition account is that preparatory alpha modulations should explain variance in the degree of attention-related modulation of neural responses to stimuli. The present article sought evidence for or against this prediction by scouring the literature on attention and alpha oscillations to review papers that explicitly correlated attention-related changes in prestimulus alpha with attention-related changes in stimulus-evoked neural activity. Surprisingly, out of over 100 papers that were examined, we found only nine that explicitly computed such relationships. The results of these nine papers were mixed, with some in support and some arguing against the functional inhibition account of alpha. Our synthesis draws out common design features that may help explain when effects are observed or not. Even among studies that do find correlations, there is inconsistency as to whether preparatory alpha modulations are predictive of sensory or postsensory components of stimulus responses, highlighting avenues for future research. A clear outcome of this review is that future studies on the role of alpha in attentional processing should analyze correlations between attention effects on alpha and attention effects on stimulus-evoked activity, as more data pertinent to this hypothesized relationship are needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

B Wen-jen Hsieh, National Cheng Kung University: b This paper presents an overall picture of Taiwan's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan, from its efforts to curb the coronavirus from spreading to its population and the relevant impacts of the pandemic to its domestic economy. As COVID-19 is a rather new and complicated issue, this paper is valuable in terms of introducing Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control disease prevention strategies to the international community, as many of the countries and regions around the world may be still suffering badly from the pandemic. [Extracted from the article]

This paper studies productivity and preferences in scientific research. Collaboration is increasingly important for innovation in science and other domains, but we have limited understanding of the factors researchers use to choose their collaborators and the projects they work on. Here, we use a model of strategic network formation and a recently developed econometric method to examine this question in the context of economics researchers. We learn that research teams with more collaborators tend to produce papers with higher impact, and without increasing individual costs of communication and coordination. This suggests the trend toward larger research teams in economics will continue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While conducting a coordinated set of repeat runs of human evaluation experiments in NLP, we discovered flaws in every single experiment we selected for inclusion via a systematic process. In this squib, we describe the types of flaws we discovered, which include coding errors (e.g., loading the wrong system outputs to evaluate), failure to follow standard scientific practice (e.g., ad hoc exclusion of participants and responses), and mistakes in reported numerical results (e.g., reported numbers not matching experimental data). If these problems are widespread, it would have worrying implications for the rigor of NLP evaluation experiments as currently conducted. We discuss what researchers can do to reduce the occurrence of such flaws, including pre-registration, better code development practices, increased testing and piloting, and post-publication addressing of errors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Computational typology has gained traction in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in recent years, as evidenced by the increasing number of papers on the topic and the establishment of a Special Interest Group on the topic (SIGTYP), including the organization of successful workshops and shared tasks. A considerable amount of work in this sub-field is concerned with prediction of typological features, for example, for databases such as the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) or Grambank. Prediction is argued to be useful either because (1) it allows for obtaining feature values for relatively undocumented languages, alleviating the sparseness in WALS, in turn argued to be useful for both NLP and linguistics; and (2) it allows us to probe models to see whether or not these typological features are encapsulated in, for example, language representations. In this article, we present a critical stance concerning prediction of typological features, investigating to what extent this line of research is aligned with purported needs—both from the perspective of NLP practitioners, and perhaps more importantly, from the perspective of linguists specialized in typology and language documentation. We provide evidence that this line of research in its current state suffers from a lack of interdisciplinary alignment. Based on an extensive survey of the linguistic typology community, we present concrete recommendations for future research in order to improve this alignment between linguists and NLP researchers, beyond the scope of typological feature prediction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a personal account of the author's 35 years "adventure" with Evolutionary Computation—from the first encounter in 1988 and many years of academic research through to working full-time in business—successfully implementing evolutionary algorithms for some of the world's largest corporations. The paper concludes with some observations and insights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We reflect on 30 years of the journal Evolutionary Computation. Taking the papers published in the first volume in 1993 as a springboard, as the founding and current Editors-in-Chief, we comment on the beginnings of the field, evaluate the extent to which the field has both grown and itself evolved, and provide our own perpectives on where the future lies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published papers covered a variety of subjects, but the most common published topics were microeconomics and macro and monetary economics. Table 2 - Status of Manuscripts by Year of Submission, 2018-2022 This table shows the status of manuscripts submitted over the past five years. Current Editorial Board: Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Olivier Coibion, University of Texas, Austin Will Dobbie (Co-Chair), Harvard University Raymond Fisman (Co-Chair), Boston University Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley Peter Hull, Brown University Brian A. Jacob, University of Michigan Scott Kominers, Harvard University Tavneet Suri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Daniel Xu, Duke University Recently Retired from the Editorial Board: Kareen Rozen, Brown University Xiaoxia Shi, University of Wisconsin-Madison Summary of Tables Table 1 - Manuscripts Submitted and Published, 2018-2022 This table shows the trends in papers submitted and published over the past five years. [Extracted from the article]

B Keun Lee, Seoul National University: b This paper analyzes the propagation of shocks originating in the United States and Japan into countries of emerging Asia (EA) in terms of five asset classes. It compares the scale and nature of spillovers during the 2008-09 global financial crisis (GFC), the 2013 "taper tantrum" (TT), and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Further, the GFC was immediately followed by extraordinarily strong macro-stabilization measures across the world, rendering economic outcomes to reflect both GFC and dramatic policy reactions like the quantitative easing (QE) in 2009. [Extracted from the article]

The authors can enrich the paper by expanding on the role of the public sector and its importance in the Malaysian context as the basis for studying public-private sector differences in earnings. Although the finding that the ethnic and gender earnings gap have declined is no surprise, the authors should discuss, even if briefly, the developments that might have contributed to this decline in the earnings gap. They found that the gender earnings gap in the public sector was much smaller than in the private sector. For example, in Table 6, the coefficient of the dummy for public employees of 0.575 was interpreted to indicate that public employees had about 57.5 percent higher earnings than those in the private sector in 2011. [Extracted from the article]

This paper investigates the effects of human capital on bilateral domestic value-added trade in global value chains (GVCs) for 43 countries and 56 sectors. In contrast to previous studies, this paper estimated an approximate gravity model of value-added trade to capture the role of human capital in determining the cross-border production linkages via value-added trade. The results show that the domestic value-added trade flows depend critically on human capital development in both exporting and importing countries. The results indicate a positive effect of skilled intensity on bilateral domestic value-added trade in GVCs. We also observe a larger positive effect of skills on the GVC value-added trade for the developing economies. The paper highlights the importance of trade liberalization and forward-looking human capital development policies for the competitiveness of the developing countries in the value-added trade in GVC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the subject of practice-based research, its application in the creative arts and its role in generating new forms of knowledge in the context of the PhD. Our aim is to provide more clarity about the nature of practice-based research, the approach we advocate and how it contributes to new knowledge that can be shared and scrutinized in a form that is both accessible and rich in its representation of the full scope of creative arts research. We draw on examples spanning over 35 years of experience in supervising interdisciplinary PhD research programs in the arts, design and digital media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Combining data on locations with career and educational histories of mathematicians, we study how distance and ties affect citation patterns. The ties considered include coauthorship, past colocation, and relationships mediated by advisers and the alma mater. With fixed effects capturing subject similarity and article quality, we find linkages are strongly associated with citation. Controlling for ties generally halves the negative impact of geographic barriers on citations. Ties matter more for less prominent and more recent papers and have retained their quantitative importance in recent years. The impact of distance, controlling for ties, has fallen and is statistically insignificant after 2004. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews a drawing exhibition by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, at Morgan Library and Museum, in New York City.