... width 1.695m]’). We then extract new pat-terns fromthe retrieved search engine snippets andre-query theWeb with the new patterns to obtainmore attribute values.We provided the framework with ... indeedmost (≥ 50%) of the retrieved values fit the re-trieved bounds. If the lower and/or upper bound1311 contradicts more than half of the data, we reject the bound. Otherwise we remove all ... value for the givenobject. During the first stage it is possible thatwe directly extract fromthe text a set of valuesfor the requested object. The bounds processingstep rejects some of these...
... that, using the new web mining scheme, theweb mining throughput is increased by 32%; (ii) The quality of the mined data is improved. By lever-aging theweb pages’ HTML structures, the sen-tence ... English-Chinese parallel data from the web. The mining procedure is initiated by acquiring Chinese website list. We have downloaded about 300,000 URLs of Chinese websites fromtheweb directories ... performance on the web data, the similarity of the HTML tag struc-tures between the parallel web documents should be leveraged properly in the sentence alignment model. In order to improve the quality...
... query is a term, its hitis the number of pages that contain the term on the Web. We use the following notation.H(x)= the number of pages that contain the term x” The number H (x) can be used ... in the compiled corpus.R: the target term did not exist on the collected web pages.Only 43 terms (20%) out of 210 terms were col-lected by the system. This low recall primarilycomes fromthe ... Sentence extraction The system decomposes each page into sen-tences, and extracts the sentences that contain the seed term s. The reason why we use the additional three queriesis that they work...
... com-ponents: the Fetcher, Extractor, and Ranker. The Fetcher is responsible for fetching web docu-ments, and the URLs of the documents come from top results retrieved fromthe search engine us-ing the ... a page. Allother candidate instances bracketed by these con-textual strings derived from a particular page areextracted fromthe same page.After the candidates are extracted, the Rankerconstructs ... instance extraction for each dataset measured in MAP. NP is the NoisyInstance Provider, NE is the Noisy Instance Expander, and BS is the Bootstrapper.quality of the initial list, and the Bootstrapper...
... (not calculated over the Web) as well as the conditional probability cal-culated over theWeb (Web- P) delivered the best re-sults, while the PMI-based ranking measure yielded the worst results. ... coefficient (Web- Jac), the PointwiseMutual Information (Web- PMI) and the conditionalprobability (Web- P). We also present a version of the conditional probability which does not use the Web but merely ... appropriatequeries to theweb search engine and choosing the article leading to the highest number of results. The corresponding patterns are then matched in the 50snippets returned by the search engine...
... our modified version of the competitive link-ing algorithm, the link score of a pair of words is the sum of the φ2 scores of the words themselves, their prefixes and their suffixes. In addition ... BLEU score based on the test data in the 2006 NIST MT Evaluation Workshop. 6 Related Work Nagata et al. (2001) made the first proposal to mine translations fromthe web. Their work was concentrated ... pairs, where the translation of the in-parenthesis terms is a suffix of the pre-parenthesis text. The lengths and frequency counts of the suffixes have been used to determine what is the translation...
... hyponym patterns toextract class instances fromtheweb and then evalu-ates them further by computing mutual informationscores based on web queries. The work by (Widdows and Dorow, 2002) on lex-ical ... to instantiate the pattern. On the first iteration, the pattern is given to Google as a web query, and new class members are extracted from the retrieved text snippets. We wanted the system to ... progresses. Initially, the seed is the onlytrusted class member and the only vertex in the graph. The bootstrapping process begins by instan-tiating the doubly-anchored pattern with the seedclass...
... relations fromthe web. Wecompare our approach with hypernym ex-traction from morphological clues and from large text corpora. We show that the abun-dance of available data on theweb enablesobtaining ... in em-ploying theweb for theextraction of hypernym re-lations. We are especially curious about whether the size of theweb allows to achieve meaningful resultswith basic extraction techniques.In ... WordNet. In the centergroup of ten pairs all errors are caused by the mor-phological approach while all other errors originate from thewebextraction method.4 Concluding remarks The contributions...
... Accessing Datafromthe Outlook 2000 Client Using theData Source Control Function of theData Source ControlUsed as the reporting engineManages the connection to the underlying data ... list from a relational data source, the PivotTable Service is used to create a multidimensional data cube fromthe relational data bound to theData Source control. This data cube is then used ... manipulate datafrom the data source, and disconnect fromthedata source when you finish using the data. One of the major benefits of ADO is that it requires fewer calls to achieve the same...
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nonvoluntaryintercourse.Onesetofquestionswasintheinterviewer-administeredportionofthesurveyandthesecondwasintheself-administeredportion(AudioCASI).Intheinterviewer-administeredseries,theywereaskedwhethertheirfirstintercoursewas‘‘voluntaryornotvoluntary.’’Forabout8percentofwomen15–44yearsofagewhohavehadintercourse,theirfirstintercoursewasnotvoluntary(table21).Forthosewhosefirstintercourseoccurredatage15oryounger,thatfirstintercoursewasnonvoluntaryfor16percentcomparedwith7percentorlessforthosewhosefirstintercourseoccurredatage16orolder.Thepercentwhosefirstintercoursewasnonvoluntaryisnearly10percentamongwomenwhosefirstintercoursewasbefore1975comparedwithabout6percentamongwomenwhofirsthadintercourseinthe1990’s(table21).Intheself-administered(AudioCASI)portionoftheinterview,womenwereaskedarelatedbutdifferentquestion:whethertheyhadeverbeenforcedbyamantohavesexualintercourseagainsttheirwill.About20percentofwomenreportedthattheyhadbeenforcedbyamantohaveintercourseagainsttheirwillatsometimeintheirlives(table22).Thus,table21showsthatfor8percentofwomen,theirfirstintercoursewasnonvoluntary;table22showsthat20percenthadhadnonvoluntaryintercourseatsometime—notnecessarilyatfirstintercourse.Table22alsoshowsthat6percentofwomenreportedthattheywereforcedtohaveintercoursebeforetheywere15andanother6percentbeforetheywere18.Afairlyhighpercentofformerlymarried(divorcedorseparated)women—about35percent—reportedthattheyhadbeenforcedtohaveintercourse.Thisfindingdeservesfurtherstudy.FirstSexualPartnerTherehasbeenmuchpublicdiscussionaboutthepartnersofsexuallyactiveteenagers.Table23profilestheageofmalepartnersatwomen’sfirstvoluntaryintercourse.Abouttwo-thirds(66percent)ofwomenwhohadtheirfirstvoluntaryintercoursebeforetheywere16hadfirstpartnerswhowereunder18yearsofage;21percenthadfirstpartners18–19yearsofage;7percenthadfirstpartners20–22yearsofage,2percenthadfirstpartners23–24yearsofage,and4percenthadfirstpartners25yearsofageorolder(table23).Only3percentofwomenhadtheirfirstintercoursewithamantheyjustmet.About3outof5women(61percent)were‘‘goingsteady’’or‘‘goingtogether’’withthemantheyhadintercoursewiththefirsttime,andabout1in5wereengagedormarriedtohim.About12percentofallwomenweremarriedwhentheyhadtheirfirstintercourse.Amongwomen40–44yearsofage(bornin1951–55),23percentweremarriedtotheirpartneratfirstintercoursewhileabout2percentofwomen15–19yearsofage(born1971–75)weremarriedtotheirfirstpartner.Womenwholivedwithbothoftheirparentsthroughouttheirchildhoodweremorelikelythanotherwomentohavebeenmarriedtotheirpartneratfirstintercourse(table24).FirstIntercourseRelativetoFirstMarriageAmongever-marriedwomen15–44yearsofage,82percenthadfirstintercoursebeforetheyweremarried.About69percentofthosefirstmarriedin1965–74hadtheirfirstintercoursebeforemarriagecomparedwith89percentofthosefirstmarriedinthe1990’s.Only2percentofthosefirstmarriedin1965–74hadtheirfirstintercourse5yearsormorebeforemarriagecomparedwith56percentofthosefirstmarriedinthe1990’s(table25).NumberofSexualPartnersAsmentionedpreviously,somequestionsonabortion,sexualpartners,andforcedsexualintercoursewereaskedinboththeinterviewer-administeredandtheself-administered(AudioCASI)portionsoftheinterview.Responsestosensitivequestionsappeartohavebeenaffectedbythecomputerself-administeredmodeofinterviewing.Tables26–31showdataonthenumberofsexualpartnersinthelast1year,5years,andlifetime,usingboththeinterviewer-administeredandself-administeredmethods.Presentingdatabasedonbothmodesofinterviewingallowstheexaminationofdifferencesinreportingduetothemodeofinterviewing(table26versus27,table28versus29,andtable30versus31);andtheselectionoffindingsmostappropriateforcomparisontoothersurveys.About3percentofunmarriedwomentoldtheinterviewerthattheyhadhadfourormoremalesexualpartnersinthelast12months(table26),comparedwith9percentreportingfourormorepartnersinAudioCASI(table27).AsimilardisparitywasfoundwhencomparingtheinterviewerresultswithAudioCASIresultsforthenumberofpartnerssinceJanuary1991(alittlelessthan5years,onaverage).Amongunmarriedwomen,14percenttoldtheinterviewertheyhadfourormoremalesexualpartnerssinceJanuary1991(table28)while18percentreportedinAudioCASIthattheyhadhadfourormorepartnersinthattime(table29).Thistopicdeservesmoredetailedstudy,butitappearsthatusingthemoreprivateinterviewtechniquegaveahigherandpresumablymorecompleteestimateofthenumberofpartnersamongunmarriedwomen(8,11).MarriageandCohabitationTables32–37show1995dataonformalmarriageandunmarriedcohabitation.About38percentofwomen15–44yearsofagehadneverbeenmarriedwheninterviewedin1995(table32).Thepercentnevermarriedwashigherineveryagegroupin1995thanitwasin1982(24).Abouthalfofwomen25–39yearsofagehavehadanunmarriedcohabitationwithamanatsometimeintheirlives;10to11percentofwomenintheirtwentiesarecurrentlycohabitingwithaman(table33).About30percentofwomen25–39yearsofagelivedwithaman(cohabited)beforetheirfirstmarriage(table34).Overone-half(57percent)ofSeries23,No.19[Page5 ... thepopulation.Thenumberofwomensherepresentsinthepopulationiscalledhersamplingweight.Samplingweightsmayvaryconsiderablyfromthisaveragevaluedependingontherespondentsrace,theresponserateforsimilarwomen,andotherfactors.Aswithanysamplesurvey,theestimatesinthisreportaresubjecttosamplingvariability.SignicancetestsonNSFGdatashouldbedonetakingthesamplingdesignintoaccount.Nonsamplingerrorswereminimizedbystringentquality-controlproceduresthatincludedthoroughinterviewertraining,checkingtheconsistencyofanswersduringandaftertheinterview,imputingmissingdata,andadjustingthesamplingweightsfornonresponseandundercoveragetomatchnationaltotals.Estimatesofsamplingerrorsandotherstatisticalaspectsofthesurveyaredescribedinmoredetailinanotherseparatereport(13).Thisreportshowsndingsbycharacteristicsofthewomaninterviewed,includingherage,maritalstatus,education,parity,householdincomedividedbythepovertylevel,andraceandHispanicorigin.IthasbeenshownthatblackandHispanicwomenhavemarkedlylowerlevelsofincome,education,andaccesstohealthcareandhealthinsurance,thanwhitewomen(14).Theseandotherfactors,ratherthanraceororiginperse,probablyaccountfordifferencesinthebehaviorsandoutcomesstudiedinthisreportamongwhite,black,andHispanicwomen(15).TableBshowsafactorthatshouldbeconsideredininterpretingtrendsinpregnancy-relatedbehaviorintheUnitedStates:thechangingagecompositionofthereproductive-agepopulation.In1982,therewere54.1millionwomenofreproductiveageintheUnitedStates;in1988,57.9million;andin1995,60.2million(16).Thelargebabyboomcohort,bornbetween1946and1964,was1834yearsofagein1982,2442yearsofagein1988,and3149yearsofagein1995.Theselargebirthcohortswerepreceded(upto1945)andfollowed(196580)bysmallercohorts.Whiletheoverallnumberofwomen1544yearsofageroseby6million,or11percentbetween1982and1995 ,the numberofteenagewomendroppedbyabout6percent,thenumberofwomen2024yearsofagedroppedby15percent,andthenumberofwomen2529droppedby6percent(tableB).Incontrast,thenumberofwomen3044yearsofageincreasedsharplyforexample,thenumberofwomen4044yearsofageincreasedby59percentbetween1982and1995.Also,women3044yearsofageaccountedfor54percentofwomen1544yearsofagein1995comparedwith44percentin1982.Thesedifferencesinagecompositionmayberelevantwhenevertimetrendsamongwomen1544yearsofagearebeingdiscussed.Publicuselesbasedonthe1995NSFGareavailableoncomputertape.TheywillalsobeavailableonCompactDiscRead-OnlyMemory(CD-ROM).QuestionsaboutthecostandavailabilityofthecomputertapesshouldbedirectedtotheNationalTechnicalInformationService(NTIS),5285PortRoyalRoad,Springeld,VA22161,703487-4650,or1800-553-NTIS.QuestionsregardingtheCD-ROMlesshouldbedirectedtoNCHSDataDisseminationBranchat301436-8500.ResultsTables117containmeasuresofpregnancyandbirthintheUnitedStates.ChildrenEverBornandTotalBirthsExpectedIn1995,women1544yearsofageintheUnitedStateshadhadanaverageof1.2birthsperwoman(table1).Thiscompareswith1.2in1988and1.3in1982(17).In1995,women1544yearsofageexpectedtonishtheirchildbearingwithanaverageof2.2childrenperwoman(table1)comparedwith2.2in1988and2.4in1982(17).Theproportionwhoreportthattheyhaveneverbeenpregnantwasmarkedlyhigherforcollegegraduatesthanforthosewhodidnotcompletehighschool(table3).Thissamepatternbyeducationisalsoseenwhendataforlivebirthsareexamined(tables45):about49percentofwomen2244yearsofagewhohadgraduatedfromcollegehadhadnolivebirthsasofthedateofinterviewcomparedwithjust8percentofwomen2244yearsofagewithoutahighschooldiploma(table4).WithinraceandHispanicorigingroups,thepatternwasthesame:collegegraduateshadmarkedlyhigherpercentschildlessthanwomenwithlesseducation(table5).Table6showsacomparisonbetweenlivebirthsreportedintheNSFGandlivebirthsregisteredonbirthcerticatesintheyears199194.Ineachindividualcalendaryearandforthesumoftheyears199194 ,the NSFGestimateofthenumberofbirthsisveryclosetothebirthcerticatetotalanddiffersfromitbylessthantheNSFGssamplingerror.TheNSFGestimateisalsoverycloseforwhitewomen.TheNSFGestimateforblackwomenisslightlylower,andtheestimateforotherracessomewhathigherthanthebirthcerticatedata.AdiscussionofthisdifferenceisgiveninthedenitionofRaceandHispanicoriginintheDenitionsofTerms.Overall,andbycharacteristicsotherthanrace,however,table6showsthatTableB.Numberofwomen,byage:UnitedStates,1982,1988,and1995Ageơ ... HumanServices. These organizations, alongwith leading researchers from outside the government, helped to design the survey. Further details on the planningand operation of the survey are given...