... Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available ... Approachto Water Conservation Water quality is also decreasing and so far has not made the headlines. This alone could bring about a water crisis according to the 2006 Stockholm Water Laureate ... evaporation will increase by 8%. Case Study: Impacts of Drought in Australia – Grain Harvest Worst in 10 Years Australia is heading for its smallest harvest in 10 years. Australian Bureau...
... Newman 19 A STOCHASTIC APPROACHTOSENTENCE PARSING Tetsunosuke FuJisaki Science Institute, IBM Japan, Ltd. No. 36 Kowa Building 5-19 Sanbancho,Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 102, Japan ABSTRACT A ... experimental results. II. GRAMMATICAL INFERENCE OF A STOCHASTIC GRAMMAR A. Estimation of Markov Parameters for sample texts Assume a Markov source model as a collectlon of states connected to one ... 0.0, to other parse trees which are grammatlcally correct but are not meaningful. Most importantly, stochastic augmentation of a gram- mar will be done automatically by feeding a set of sentences...
... Shane Bergsma, Sittichai Jiampojamarn and Grzegorz KondrakDepartment of Computing ScienceUniversity of AlbertaEdmonton, AB, T6G 2E8, Canada{qdou,bergsma,sj,kondrak}@cs.ualberta.caAbstractCorrect ... constraints generated by Equation 1are called rank constraints. They are created sep-arately for every (sj, tj) training pair. Essen-tially, each training pair is matched with a setof automatically-created ... successful insimilar settings (learning with thousands of sparsefeatures) for both ranking and classification tasks,and because an efficient implementation is avail-able (Joachims, 1999).At test time...
... of variation and bias inrelation to monitoring of animal disease incidence onherd and national level, causal analysis on national level,as well as estimation of validated treatment criteria.Monitoring ... potential links to data quality. This understand-ing provides insight into potential errors (bias andrandom error) related to data based on clinical examina- Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 ... metritis' that relate to the quality of thedata that are produced. We analyse and build &apos ;a model ofunderstanding' based on DBL's observations and the indi-vidual veterinarians'...
... but also be integrated into a phrase-based decoder serving as additional distortion fea-tures.We evaluated our approach on large-scaleJapanese-English and English-Japanese machinetranslation ... data(auto). We sample a small corpus (575 sentence pairs) and do manual alignment (man-small). Wedenote the automatic alignment for these 575 sen-tences as (auto-small). From Table 3, we can ... a source sentence. The ranking model is auto-matically derived from word aligned paralleldata with a syntactic parser for source lan-guage based on both lexical and syntacticalfeatures. We evaluated...
... qual-ity of group functioning and argumentation. Lacson and colleagues (2006) describe a form of conversation summarization where a classification approach is first applied to segments of a ... investigate the use of state-of-the-art se-quential learning techniques that have proven suc-cessful for email act classification in comparison with a feature based approach. Our evaluation ... learner, so that a much greater difference in average would be required in order to achieve statistical signifi-cance. Performance over a validation set was al-ways worse with larger history...
... toSentence Compression of Spoken UtterancesDong Wang, Xian Qian, Yang LiuThe University of Texas at Dallasdongwang,qx,yangl@hlt.utdallas.eduAbstractThis paper presents a two-step approach ... weuse a discriminative training approachto cap-ture sentence level global information fromthe candidates and rerank them. For evalua-tion, we compare our system output with mul-tiple human ... the candidate sentence with that of thefirst ranked candidate. This is because we try to avoid a very large or small compression ra-tio, and the first candidate is generally a goodcandidate with...
... Workshop, pages 1–6,Sydney, July 2006.c2006 Association for Computational Linguistics A Flexible Approachto Natural Language Generation for Disabled Children Pradipta Biswas School of Information ... Technology Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302 INDIA pbiswas@sit.iitkgp.ernet.in Abstract Natural Language Generation (NLG) is a way to automatically realize a correct ex-pression ... linguistics, which deals with automatic genera-tion of text in natural human language by the machine. It can be conceptualized as a process leading from a high level communicative goal to a sequence...
... intended. But initializing variables at least avoids theintroduction of truly garbage data, data that can be any arbitrary value.Here is a far more dangerous use of uninitialized variables:1 {2 ... 1.1. Playing with Memory 111.1.4 How to Crash Your ProgramThere is no faster way to crash a program than to make a mistake withmemory. (Actually, this statement overstates the case: a program ... operators are also called Boolean operators after George Boole,whose contribution to mathematics includes the study of Boolean algebras.One particular Boolean algebra is the algebra of logical 0 and...
... Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL2003), pages 49-56, Sapporo, Japan. Tsur, Oren, Maarten de Rijke, and Khalil Sima'an. 2004. BioGrapher: biography questions as a restricted domain question ... into two stages: (1) use typical IR approaches for retrieving documents that are relevant to the specific goal; (2) use a text categorization approach to re-rank the retrieved documents according ... retrieving answers for such questions into two stages, with each stage focusing on modeling one aspect of a how -to question. We compare the two-stage approach with two alternative approaches: a baseline...
... under a warrant (Schedule 11 paragraph 13(3)); and ã to provide for original documents seized under a warrant to be retained as long as may be necessary, but for the owner to be able to apply for ... will allow the FCA to act faster to address, for example, compliance failures by an RIE (clause 27); ã allowing the FCA to impose financial penalties or to issue public censures in relation to ... May, the Bank and FSA published The Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority: Our approachto banking supervision, setting out the approach the PRA will take to banking supervision and...
... international law, as discussed infra). This page intentionally left blank A Foucauldian Approachto International Law52Customary international law then can be understood as eliciting constant ... creating a standard because states make declarations and appear to desire to entrench customary standards in international forums without having the intention to do so out of any formal legal obligation. ... and approaches to international law, including recent assertions that have accounted for the incorporation of non-state actors as well. Moving away from an overly critical analysis, the chapter...