... normal transaminases have historically not been considered as candidates for HBV treatment based on the assumption that these patients usually havea slow progression and evidence that these patients ... years, ALT has been used as a standard surrogate for the activity of CHB Thus, ALT level in combination with HBV DNA level and histological activity has been used as a determinant for HBV treatment ... patients has positive HBsAg and a low level of HBV load (i.e < x 105 copies/ml) Clinically, these patients have normal transaminases (i.e ALT and AST) and no symptoms related to HBV infection Histologically,...
... that makes it easy to use and learn, yet still be applicable toa broad range of applications and users The criteria include the following: r Easy to use and learn It must have an intuitive and ... scheme and load variables much as the operator of a plant observes the behaviour of an actual plant Dynamic simulation allows for the comparison of several candidate control strategies and assesses ... combination of hardware and software is available to implement a ‘hands-on’ approachto process control system design Engineers and students alike are now able to experiment on virtual plants that...
... mental health and Ensuring Quality, Access, and Sustainability Gathering and Analyzing Data to Drive Decisions Assessing A Conceptual Framework for a Public Health Approachto Children’s Mental ... have been increasing calls to move toward a public health approachto children’s mental health and development20 Indeed, this monograph is a response to those calls, and an additional voice added ... array of mental health interventions that are needed to serve all children It can serve as an organizational tool to help collaborators develop a comprehensive, coordinated public health approach...
... Having said that, the fundamentals of participatory training are repeated and reinforced throughout the manual as a reminder, and to encourage those who may have had less advanced training to ... manual in training programs will change providers’ orientation such that they are able to treat a client as an individual person rather than as a patient, a case, or a number However, a sustained ... Tasneem and Tayyaba Gul were also an essential part of the core team during earlier trainings in Sargodha The manual was edited earlier by Mary D’Souza It was later transformed into the shape of a...
... integrated into a phrasebased decoder serving as additional distortion features We evaluated our approach on large-scale Japanese-English and English-Japanese machine translation tasks, and experimental ... rest 75% as test data (auto) We sample a small corpus (575 sentence pairs) and manual alignment (man-small) We denote the automatic alignment for these 575 sentences as (auto-small) From Table 3, ... Experiments To test our ranking reorder model, we carry out experiments on large scale English -To- Japanese, and Japanese -To- English translation tasks 5.1 Data 5.1.1 Evaluation Data We collect 3,500 Japanese...
... no gold standard available Luckily, the Bayesian approach allows us to automatically select values for the hyperparameters by treating them as additional variables in the model We augment the ... hyperparameters to encourage some degree of sparsity in all clusters Conclusion In this paper, we have demonstrated that, for a standard trigram HMM, taking a Bayesian approachto POS tagging dramatically ... usually assigned to the same cluster, but types are assigned to clusters more or less at random, and all clusters have approximately the same number of types (542 on average, with a standard deviation...
... scheme that novel thread based features havea greater and more consistent impact on classification performance Data and Coding We make use of an available annotated corpus of discussion data where ... finite-state automaton that only has two states The automaton is set to initial state (q0) at the top of a message It makes a transition to state (q1) when it encounters a quoted span of text ... significant difference between Base+Thread and Base+AllContext 4.2 Conclusions We have described work towards an approachto conversation summarization where an assessment of conversational quality along...
... of machines A deeper reason for adopting a logic-based approach is CHAPTER INTRODUCTION 14 that it captures human reasoning, which is exactly what a system administrator has to today in managing ... rule can be applied to any vulnerability that matches the pattern An underscore-led variable such as AttackSrc is an anonymous variable in Datalog — one that appears only once in a clause, and ... logic-programming language Datalog [11] Datalog is a syntactic subset of Prolog, so the specification is also a program that can be loaded into a standard Prolog environment and executed Datalog has a...
... that grant the attacker local access 3.2 Planner Cyc’s planner is a variant of SHOP, an efficient hierarchical task network planner [Nau et al 1999] The planning domain is a representation of actions ... indicates it is a specialization of ConceptualWork, the collection of deliberately created things that lack a location in space but havea beginning in time and an associated abstract information ... attack plans generated For example, a user can state the goal “An external user with no initial access gains administrator/root access to target.mynetwork.net.” The user then examines the plans...
... data separate from retail and consumer demand signals United Kingdom 20 United Arab Emirates We bring social media data into our demand signal repository (DSR) 13 Canada We don’t havea demand ... Our ability to capture and analyse large data sets (eg, “big data”) has improved our efforts to attract and retain customers 27 45 21 11 We are very effective at leveraging customer data and ... mobile into the marketing mix to attract and engage consumers However, they are not ready to abandon traditional approaches to consumer marketing CG marketers say they want to increase engagement...
... acoustic characteristics of a language automatically and is able to produce an acoustic model that outperforms a language-mismatched acoustic model trained with high supervision Table shows that our ... The authors would like to thank Hung-an Chang and Ekapol Chuangsuwanich for training the English and Thai acoustic models Thanks to Matthew Johnson, Ramesh Sridharan, Finale Doshi, S.R.K Branavan, ... corpus Andrew Gelman, John B Carlin, Hal S Stern, and Donald B Rubin 2004 Bayesian Data Analysis Texts in Statistical Science Chapman & Hall/CRC, second edition James Glass 2003 A probabilistic framework...
... demonstrate that training in the reranking module can be tailed to the evaluation metrics to optimize system performance Corpus Sentence Compression Approach Our compression approach has two steps: ... global solutions, such as machine translation (Wang et al., 2007), parsing (Charniak and Johnson, 2005), and disfluency detection (Zwarts and Johnson, 2011) We use a maximum Entropy reranker to ... material are those of the authors and not necessarily reflect the views of DARPA or NSF References Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson 2005 Coarse -to ne n-best parsing and maxent discriminative reranking...
... {λg , λh } is a parameter vector In Japanese, the main subject of a sentence usually appears at the beginning of the sentence (BOS) and the main verb phrase almost always appears at the end of ... compression: A comparison across domains, training requirements and evaluation measures In Proc of the 21st COLING and 44th ACL, pages 377–384 C Hori and S Furui 2003 A new approachto automatic speech ... because in many cases it cannot reproduce human-produced compressions As an alternative to these tree trimming approaches, sequence-oriented approaches have been proposed (McDonald, 2006; Nomoto, 2007;...
... grammar consists of known utterances that can be made by the user The unigram grammar is stored in a phrase database The grammar is organized according to individual words and phrases Each phrase ... Track, 176 San Francisco, California, SpeechTEK West, pp – 10 Jurafsky, D & Martin, J., Speech and Language Processing, Prentice Hall, 2000 Natural Language Software Registry, [Online] Available: ... goal of Distributed Listening research is to take a unique approach in order to enhance the success of the traditional approaches to speech recognition The approach of Distributed Listening directly...
... Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Roxana Girju, Paul Morarescu, Finley Lacatusu, Adrian Novischi, Adriana Badulescu, Orest Bolohan 2002 LCC Tools for Question Answering ... sources Clarke et al (2001) obtained a 30% improvement by using an auxiliary database created from web documents as an additional resource We adopted a different approachto exploit external knowledge ... lead toa better understanding of the similarities and differences between the approaches that make up today’s QA research landscape We also hope that our paper will reduce the high barrier to...
... the semantic type of the phrase (for named entities), the phrase vocabulary, the distance to the target head, and local context (words and phrases) Our initial evaluation of this approach has given ... indicate whether the paragraph is to be treated as a positive or a negative example of the category they are elaborating In our preliminary studies, we were able to achieve the peak performance ... it more convenient to adapt the Alembic name tagger by manual hill climbing Because this tagger was originally designed for a similar newswire task, we were able to make the port using relatively...
... 80–87, Hyderabad, India, January William A Woods 1970 Transition network grammars for natural language analysis Communications of the ACM, 13(10):591–606, October Gerald Gazdar 1988 Applicability of ... in analytic languages by incorporating CCG with a memory mechanism In the memory mechanism, fillers and gaps are stored as modalities that modalize a syntactic category The fillers and the gaps are ... grammar: An approachto gap resolution in analytic-language translation In Proceedings of The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, volume 1, pages 80–87, Hyderabad,...
... conflicting evaluations seems more appropriate Such an approach allows taking into account in a flexible and natural way the variety of knowledge sources and processing a c t i v i t i e s that are involved ... representation of a text has been P produced, i t is easy to prune the less relevant parts in order to obtain the representation of an appropriate summary to be eventually translated into natural language ... , algorithmic definition A procedural, knowledge-based approach comprising a set of rules that can assign relative importance values to the different parts of a text and can resolve or explain...
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... chat term character T , standard counterpart character C and the mapping probability Prcm (T | C ) that T is mapped to C via this character mapping As they must be constructed from chat language ... as standard language In chat term normalization, when the phonetic mapping models are used to represent mappings between chat term characters and standard counterpart characters, the dynamic ... language corpus This results in two advantages One, sparse data problem can be addressed appropriately because standard language corpus is used Two, the phonetic mapping models are as stable as...