... ofthe prepo-sitions (especially of/ de) to the semantic classes addsto the complexity oftheinterpretation task. Thus,for theinterpretationof these constructions a systemmust rely on the ... the contribution the features exemplified in one baselineand six versions ofthe SVM model. The baseline isdefined only for the English part ofthe NP featureset and measures thethe contribution ofthe ... EXPERIENCER, THEME, BENEFICIARY.Out of these instances, 74.81% use the preposition of. In CLUVI, 11.71% ofthe examples were ver-bal, from which the preposition of has a coverage of 82.20%. The many-to-many...
... may also needdifferent types of care, depending on whetherthey are still in school or whether they aremarried. Indeed, the extent of sexual activityoutside of marriage varies greatly. In ... not providethem with services, either because they be-lieve the centers cater exclusively to the needs of pregnant women, infants, and small chil-dren or because they think that the staff willdiscriminate ... more acceptable to young adults by improving the quality of existing health serv-ices, including making care more accessible. Improving the acceptability of health serviceshas several important...
... “O”,which indicates a non-named entity. For 98.0% of the named entities in the training data ofthe sharedtask in the 2004 JNLPBA, the label ofthe preced-ing entity was “O”.In order to incorporate ... of semi-CRFsSince the purpose ofthe filtering is to reduce the computational cost, rather than to achieve a goodF-score by itself, we chose the threshold probabil-ity of filtering so that the ... the upper boundlength of entities, N is the length of sentence andK is the size of label set. And that of training infirst order semi-CRFs is O(K2LN). The increase of the cost is used to transfer...
... the class “causal” for any of the examples. The largest class in our dataset is “participant”, which is the label for 43% ofthe examples; the smallest is “temporal”, which labels 9% ofthe ... accuracy ofthe algorithms on each ofthe con-ditions is illustrated below in Table 3. Since the largest class in the dataset accounts for 43% ofthe examples, the baseline accuracy for the task ... using all ofthe joining terms produced the best results. The SVM algorithm produced the best accuracy of all, achieving 50.1% accuracy using the com-bined set of joining terms. The less...
... syntacticknowledge about the translation ofnoun phrases. They constitute soft constraints that may be over-ruled by other components ofthe system.5 ResultsAs described in Section 3.1, we evaluate the per-formance ... translation provided by the sys-tem be part of an acceptable translation ofthe wholesentence? In other words, thenoun phrase has to betranslated correctly given the sentence context. The NP/PPs are ... judgments. The initialfeatures are the logarithm ofthe probability scoresthat the model assigns to each candidate transla-tion: the language model score, the phrase transla-tion score and the reordering...
... finding emphasized the importance of an integrated system that would promote delivery of care to mothers and infants based on the level of acuity. The concept prompted the March of Dimes, in 1976, ... non-Hispanic white mothers to die in the first year of life (13.4 and 5.6 per 1,000 live births in 2006). 7Toward Improvingthe Outcome of Pregnancy IIImarchofdimes.comHistory ofthe Quality ... relies on the World Health Organization defini-tion: The death of a woman while preg-nant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective ofthe duration and site ofthe pregnancy,...
... a noun- noun similarity score,Seen(vd) is the set of seen head words filling the slot vdduring training, and C(vd, n) is the num-ber of times thenoun n was seen filling the slot vd The ... implement. The Backoff Erk model is the best, using the Baseline for the majority of decisions and backing off to the Erk smoothingmodel when the Baseline cannot answer.Figure 5 (shown on the next ... arandom noun from a frequency bucket similar to the original noun s frequency, and (3) select the nearest neighbor, thenoun with frequency clos-est to the original. These methods evaluate the range...
... diarrheal deaths in the two regions ofthe world where they are most concentrated — the northern states of India and Nigeria. In Phase 2 this approach will be extended to the other high child ... MOTHER-TO-CHILD: Virtually eliminate the transmission of HIV from mother-to-child by the end of 2015 In collaboration with UNAIDS, PEPFAR, the countries suering the greatest burden and other ... $3.5 billion of www.mdghealthalliance.org | 9Led by Suprotik Basu, Managing Director oftheof ce of the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Malaria, the Malaria Pillar ofthe MDG Health...
... impossible,toquantify. The variousentitiesthatmanagespecificAI/ANhealthdatasetsoftenemploydifferingmethodsforcollecting,adjusting,anddistributingdata.Agreatereffortisneededtocollaborateacrossagenciesandinstitutesthatareconductingresearchandcollectingdatainordertobeginaccuratelyportraying the trueextent of Indianhealthdisparities.Severalagencies,organizations,andinstitutionshaveexpressedarenewedinterestincomingtogethertobeginaconversationonhowthismightbeachieved.Accuratedataisnecessarytosupportassessmentandpolicydevelopmenttoimproveservicedeliveryandhealthstatus of Indianpeople.Withoutpaintingamorethoroughpicture of IndianhealthinWashingtontoday, the abilitytoplanorimproveservices,monitorquality,andanalyzecostsisseverelyimpaired.Tribalgovernmentsmustbeintricatelyinvolvedinsucheffortstoassure the use ofthe dataisculturallyappropriate,acceptable,andmeaningfulin improvingthe health of theirpeople.Byreinstitutingeffortsthatbeganin1997between the commissionand the WashingtonStateDepartment of HealththroughanAmericanIndianDataCommittee,anupdatedframeworkcanbedevelopedforaddressingpriorityhealthissuesforAI/AN.ThereareseveralentitiesthatconsistentlyconductresearchandcollectandinterpretdataonAI/AN.Over the nexttwoyears, the commissionwillpartnerwith the Department of Health, the NorthwestPortlandAreaIndianHealthBoard, the UrbanIndianInstitute,andotherepidemiology/research‐basedcenterswithagoal of developingamorecomprehensiveunderstanding ofthe current‐dayhealth ofthe AI/ANpopulationandprovidingTribes,Tribalorganizations,and the statemoreaccurateinformationneededtoaddresspublichealthpolicyissuesimportanttoTribalcommunities.C. ... IndianHealthDataCollaborativeComprehensivedataon the health of AI/ANinWashingtonisseverelylackingasAI/ANraceisoftenunderreportedormisclassified.Estimation of diseaseratesoftenrelieson the use of vitalrecords,includingbirthanddeathcertificates,diseaseregistries,andcensusdata.Errorsand/orinaccuraciesoccurwhendataforAI/ANcommunitiesarereportedincompletelyorarenotreportedaccurately.Acloselyrelatedproblemarisesdueto the factthateachdatasystemmayrecordracedifferently. The impact of thisdifferentialrecording of raceon the completenessandaccuracy ofthe numbersandrates of healtheventsforAI/ANsisdifficult,ifnot ... First,aState‐Tribal‐UrbanIndianHealthCollaborativehasbeenre‐institutedatastate/triballeaderpolicylevelforaddressingappropriatesystemschangeandpolicydecisionsthatneedtobemadetochangehealthoutcomesforIndianpeople.Thisgroup—comprised of tribalgovernments,healthstaff,andstateleadersacrossmultiplesystemsanddepartments—willbestrategicallyaligningstatewideIndianhealthdisparitiesworkwithGovernorGregoire’s5‐PointHealthCareInitiative.Thiswillallow the grouptoleverageexistingresources,maximize the limitedfundscurrentlyavailable,andcreate the infrastructurenecessarytofurtherreduceIndianhealthdisparitiesin the future.Second,severalagencies,organizations,andinstitutionshaveexpressedarenewedinterestincomingtogethertodevelopamorecompleteset of AmericanIndianhealthstatusdata.Accuratedataisnecessarytosupportcommunityhealthassessmentsandpolicydevelopmenttoimproveservicedeliveryandhealthstatus of Indianpeople.Withoutpaintingamorethoroughpicture of IndianhealthinWashingtontoday, the abilitytoplanorimproveservices,monitorquality,andanalyzecostsisseverelyimpaired.Tribalgovernmentsmustbeintricatelyinvolvedinsucheffortstoassure the use ofthe dataisculturally‐appropriate,acceptable,andmeaningfulin improvingthe health of theirpeople.Byreinstitutingeffortsthatbeganin1997between the AmericanIndianHealthCommissionandWashingtonStateDepartment of HealththroughanAmericanIndianDataCommittee,anupdatedframeworkcanbedevelopedforaddressingpriorityhealthissuesforAI/AN.Third,sweepingnationalhealthreformand the currentadministrationofferauniqueopportunityforchangeinhowhealthcareisprovidedtoAI/ANs.AsIndianhealthleadershipsuchas the U.S.IndianHealthServices, the NationalIndianHealthBoard,andmoreregionally, the NorthwestPortlandAreaIndianHealthBoard,stronglyadvocatesfor the inclusion of Indianhealthreforminnationalreformstrategies, the stateisalsorethinkinghowitprovidesquality,affordable,andcost‐effectivehealthcaretoitscitizens. The state,Tribes,and the commissionwillactivelypartnerintheseeffortstoaddress the needforAI/ANincreasedaccesstoexistingservices,increasedTribalproviderreimbursementopportunitiessoculturally‐appropriateservicescanbeprovidedinTribalcommunities,anddevelopmechanismsforevaluatingprogressforimprovedIndianhealthstatus.SectionIII,2007‐2009Accomplishments,highlightssome ofthe majorachievementsmadeforIndianhealthin the statesince the lastplanwaspublishedin2007.Additionalpartnershipshavebeendeveloped,keypolicyissueshavebeenaddressed,andthere...
... cut-off 0.05 by varying the threshold for the confidence values. In order to show the effects of the use ofthe training SCFs, I also performedclustering of SCF confidence-value vectors in the acquired ... centroid cut-off0.05*). The graph shows that clustering is mean-ingful only when we make use ofthe reliable SCFsin the manually-coded lexicon. The centroid cut-off using the lexicon ofthe grammar ... lexicon ofthe tar-get grammar,4and make use ofthe existing sets of 4When the lexicon is less accurate, I can determine the number of clusters using other algorithms (Hamerly, 2003).SCFs for the...
... outline of how a descrip- tion of speaker-reference can ser~e as a source of em- pirical support to a theory of speech acts. However, much more research must take place to flesh out the theoretical ... Other signals oftheinterpretationof intent need to be identified to explain how the expertis "OK, now start pumping" communicates ... deliberately av- oided problems of computation here, but hope the panel will discuss these issues, especially the utility of computational mode is to ethnographers of conversation. Acknowledgements:...
... adverbial. In these cases, what is sited by TF is the beginning ofthe interval. What in turn sites the RT ofthe main clause is the end ofthe interval. The processing ofthe first two clauses ... point N in the discourse, there is one node of e/s structure that provides a context for theinterpretation of the RT ofthe next ctause. I will call it the temporal focus or TF. There are ... Rather, it is the RT ofthe second clause: its ET is interpreted as prior to that because the clause is in the past perfect tense (see above). Having said that it is the RT of tense whose interpretation...
... description ofthe objects while the A-Box contains the set ofthe assertions on the objects. The former corresponds to the ability of describing by the use of NPs, and the latter to that of constructing ... to use the notion of predicate to interpret this complex process as well as the other possible interpretation ofthe adjective: the one corresponding to tile notion of "type of& quot; ... contain other symbolic systems. The task ofthe ~JM is mainly to hold hypotheses to be mapped onto the LT~! which requires the cooperation of several interpreters. The Introduction of a larger...