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Oklahoma Supreme Court Reverses Itself In Suit By Muslim Convert To Christianity

In Doe v. First Presbyterian Church U.S.A. of Tulsa, (OK Sup. Ct., Dec. 19, 2017), the Oklahoma Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, withdrew its Feb. 2017 decision (see prior posting) dismissing on church autonomy grounds a suit challenging a church's publicizing of plaintiff's baptism, and replaced...

Hair-chop traffic cop

Hair-chop traffic cop

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Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions

This paper proposes to tackle open-domain question answering using Wikipedia as the unique knowledge source: the answer to any factoid question is a text span in a Wikipedia article. This task of machine reading at scale combines the challenges of document retrieval - finding the relevant articles...