Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:Michael J. T. McMillen, Enforceability of Certain Promises, Particularly Unilateral and Pre-Closing Promises: Secular and Shari'ah Concepts, (2017 Proceedings of Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions Shari'ah Board Conference).Ronald J. Colombo, An...

12 Quilts for Babies and Kids

12 Quilts for Babies and Kids

What’s sweeter than a sleeping child? Basically nothing, except maybe one with a cozy quilt tucked under her chin. Here are 12 quilts that would look lovely on a bed, spread out on the floor for playing or even hung up on the wall.… Read more The post 12 Quilts for Babies and Kids appeared first...

‘Ten Things I Always Tell Pregnant Women’

‘Ten Things I Always Tell Pregnant Women’

A conversation with Erica Chidi Cohen feels like one big pep talk. A doula, author and co-founder of LOOM (a education hub for pregnancy and parenting in L.A.), Erica has attended more than 300 births.… Read more The post ‘Ten Things I Always Tell Pregnant Women’ appeared first on A Cup of Jo....

Learning End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog

End-to-end dialog systems, in which all components are learnt simultaneously, have recently obtained encouraging successes. However these were mostly on conversations related to chit-chat with no clear objective and for which evaluation is difficult. This paper proposes a set of tasks to test the...