... implications for
management at all levels of the company, and for the culture of the company.
For human resources management two behaviours are clearly indicated: learning to listen,
and empowering ... on-site training and technology transfer, a series of external
seminars and meetings were organised: meetings were held for specialists from ASEAN
countries and Japan; education and training in ... This can only be achieved by a change in management style and way of
thinking, and by an overall change in the company culture. All of this is what TQM is about.
3. The central role of management
TQM...
... that using the GLR* parser results
in a significant improvement in performance. When
using the full heuristics, the percentage of sentences,
for which the parser returned a parse that matched ... selected by our integrated parse eval-
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and ... the
variability of analysis grain between different
analysis steps. Many analysis models require a
minimal grain to be defined, called token. For ex-
ample, formalisms such as grammar or transduc-
ers ... platform allows
to define locally the unit types which have to be
considered as tokens. Any previously marked unit
can be used as such: usual tokenisation in words
or any other beforehand analysed...
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demand for the steam in the plant is met by the recovery...
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and useful ... well-
formed sentences. Using anintegrated approach, a
shallow checker can be used to cheaply identify ini-
tial error candidates, while false alarms can be elim-
An Integrated Architecture for ... is thus called for is an integrated,
flexible architecture where components can play at
their strengths. Partial analyses from SNLP can be
used to identify relevant candidates for the focussed
use...
... English is to force the use of the right
hand side of the IRule which specifies the semantic
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...
specifies an active edge and an inactive edge that can
extend it. An insertion task specifies a nondeterministie
unification act, and a virtual task involves extension of
an edge to include an inactive ... hypothesis. The object is already there,
analyzed for the other reading and does not need to be
reanalyzed. So a Milano is taken as the filler for the
impulse and the analysis is concluded properly. ... the LFG
environment, which was probably the first of its kind, an
environment built by Ron Kaplan for Lexical-
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in a concise yet clear manner.
Secondly we can define ... Goods and Seller. It also provides an
overview of the valence patterns that were found in
the annotated sentences for this frame. FrameNet
does not include frequency information for each
annotation....
... results. For this purpose, we
propose and develop an audit environment, which consists of
a database transformation method and a result verification
method. The main component of our audit environment ... integrity problem is to con-
struct an audit environment. Essentially, an audit environ-
ment consists of (i) a set of transformation methods that
transform a database T to another database U, based on
which ... are performed for each instance
of the database. A larger amount of resources, such as stor-
age and preparation cost can be invested for the outsourced
database model, since the cost can be amortized...