We designed a term expansion mechanism to improve matchmaking performance by mitigating issues of wording bias and ambiguity.
The intricate issue of word frequency warrants more attention in future research, preferably with psychometric evidence over and beyond test score comparisons.
At the centre of the issue is a problem of wording.
Interview questions focused primarily on participants' comprehension and perceptions of each item and the instructions, and also addressed issues of formatting, wording, content, recall period, response options, and relevance, using verbal probing techniques as needed.
An informal pilot survey was preliminarily conducted among the personnel of the Department of Sciences for Health Promotion to identify issues of timing, wording or routeing errors.
I will not be careful about the distinction in what follows as the diachronic issues of word identity won't concern us much here.
Even if one could adjust for that, however, there is still the issue of the word "football", which encompasses both the world game and gridiron.
Here, at the end of the six-week New York Times series "How Race Is Lived in America," we remove the journalistic filter and offer an issue of unmediated words and images.
In the current issue of The Word magazine, David Hepworth wonders why they became characterised as "victims of hapless marketing", as opposed to active, discriminating fans whose favourites fly off the shelves.
"The story of Justin Bon Iver Vernonon's debut was seductive," admits the year end issue of The Word: "The three snowy months spent alone in a hunting cabin in a remote corner of Wisconsin, the deer hunting, the song writing, the broken heart.
