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Automatic Authorship Attribution in the Work of Tirso de Molina
Cavadas, Miguel, Gamallo, Pablo
Automatic Authorship Attribution (AAA) is the result of applying tools and techniques from Digital Humanities to authorship attribution studies. Through a quantitative and statistical approach this discipline can draw further conclusions about renowned authorship issues which traditional critics have been dealing with for centuries, opening a new door to style comparison. The aim of this paper is to prove the potential of these tools and techniques by testing the authorship of five comedies traditionally attributed to Spanish playwright Tirso de Molina (1579-1648): La ninfa del cielo, El burlador de Sevilla, Tan largo me lo fiais, La mujer por fuerza and El condenado por desconfiado. To accomplish this purpose some experiments concerning clustering analysis by Stylo package from R and four distance measures are carried out on a corpus built with plays by Tirso, Andres de Claramonte (c. 1560-1626), Antonio Mira de Amescua (1577-1644) and Luis Velez de Guevara (1579-1644). The results obtained point to the denial of all the attributions to Tirso except for the case of La mujer por fuerza.
Users trust AI as much as humans for flagging problematic content
Social media users may trust artificial intelligence (AI) as much as human editors to flag hate speech and harmful content, according to researchers at Penn State. The researchers said that when users think about positive attributes of machines, like their accuracy and objectivity, they show more faith in AI. However, if users are reminded about the inability of machines to make subjective decisions, their trust is lower. The findings may help developers design better AI-powered content curation systems that can handle the large amounts of information currently being generated while avoiding the perception that the material has been censored, or inaccurately classified, said S. Shyam Sundar, James P. Jimirro Professor of Media Effects in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications and co-director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory. "There's this dire need for content moderation on social media and more generally, online media," said Sundar, who is also an affiliate of Penn State's Institute for Computational and Data Sciences.
These Big Thinkers Want You To Know How They Feel About Science
In April 2018, the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative and 3M hosted the lecture, Climate Change: Science and Policy with Dr. Mario Molina. Molina won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his scientific discovery of the chemistry of the stratospheric ozone layer and its susceptibility to human-made activities. He co-authored research in 1974 in Nature magazine on the threat to the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gasses being used in spray cans. Molina has also served on the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology from 1994 to 2000 and again in 2010-2016. "Science doesn't tell you what to do. Science isn't either good or bad so you can not give Nobel prizes in science to good people, you do that in principle for the science," said Molina.
Helen Hunt reveals how her acting career helped her direct 'Feud'
When it comes to the career trajectories of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, Helen Hunt can relate. Like the two acting icons at the center of FX's Feud: Bette and Joan, Hunt began her Hollywood career at a young age (in her case, as a child actress) and has enjoyed both widespread popularity – as the Emmy-winning star of the hit sitcom Mad About You – and an acclaimed film career as well: along with starring in blockbuster crowd pleasers like Twister, Hunt earned an Academy Award for Best Actress for her turn in the 1997 dramedy As Good As It Gets. And as Hunt navigated the complex waters of acting in Hollywood, she also recognized the value of reinvention, following the example set by her father Gordon, a writer, acting coach and voiceover artist who pivoted into a highly regarded career as a director of sitcoms, stage plays and, later, video games. Like her father, Hunt initiated a successful segue behind the camera as well: writing, directing and starring in 2007's Then She Found Me and 2014's Ride, in addition to helming episodes of high profile TV shows including Californication, House of Lies, Revenge, Life in Pieces and This Is Us. And while she continues to pursue her acting career – she's currently appearing in Fox's limited series Shots Fired – Hunt was a natural recruit to direct the penultimate episode of Feud for a variety of reasons, as she tells Mashable; including executive producer Ryan Murphy's stated commitment to put more female directors to work; her empathy for the hard-fought battles of the actresses who preceded her in Hollywood; and her own understanding of leaving a lasting legacy in the arts.