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Political Deliberation & the Adversarial Principle

Daedalus, 2017
Retrieving an insight dating back to antiquity, this essay argues that the confrontation of opposing views and arguments is desirable in political deliberation. But freedom of speech and diversity among deliberators do not suffice to secure that outcome. Therefore we should actively facilitate and encourage the presentation of contrary opinions during
exaly   +2 more sources

The Probability Ranking Principle is Not Optimal in Adversarial Retrieval Settings

Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on The Theory of Information Retrieval, 2015
The probability ranking principle (PRP) - ranking documents in response to a query by their relevance probabilities - is the theoretical foundation of most ad hoc document retrieval methods. A key observation that motivates our work is that the PRP does not account for potential post-ranking effects, specifically, changes to documents that result from ...
Ran Ben-Basat   +2 more
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