... 2.1 Background and Related Work DialogueActClassification Because of the importance of dialogueactclassification within dialogue systems, it has been an active area of research for some time ... • Dialogueact features: Manually annotated dialogueactfor the past three utterances These features include tutor dialogue acts, annotated with a scheme analogous to that used to annotate student ... improve a dialogueactclassificationmodelfor tutorial dialogue, and the results demonstrate that facial expressions hold great promise for distinguishing the pedagogically relevant dialogue act...
... significant PCR analysis for the integration of the transgene The transgene in the founder animals and their progeny was identified by PCR analysis of genomic DNA obtained from tail biopsies PCR analysis ... 2207–2215 ª 2005 FEBS Y Zhang et al Development of an HSV-tk transgenic mouse model A B Fig Analysis of integration of transgene in mouse family TK5 (A) PCR analysis of the transgenic mice in TK5-F1 ... Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) and Dr Xiao-Kang Li (the National Institute for Child and Development, Japan) for their very helpful discussion in this work We also thank Yi-Wen...
... best-characterized animal model, and experiments can be performed in this model in a cost- and time-effective manner, (b) a wide array of immunological reagents is available for studies in this model, and (c) ... no single animal model that duplicates all forms of RSV disease While cotton rats provide a good modelfor toxicologic evaluations, mice are considered advantageous for immunology and vaccine ... importance of IFN-γ, IL-6, IL-10 and IL-13 has been described [20-24] The mouse provides an excellent modelfor human RSV infection because of the following: (a) the mouse is the best-characterized...
... best-characterized animal model, and experiments can be performed in this model in a cost- and time-effective manner, (b) a wide array of immunological reagents is available for studies in this model, and (c) ... no single animal model that duplicates all forms of RSV disease While cotton rats provide a good modelfor toxicologic evaluations, mice are considered advantageous for immunology and vaccine ... importance of IFN-γ, IL-6, IL-10 and IL-13 has been described [20-24] The mouse provides an excellent modelfor human RSV infection because of the following: (a) the mouse is the best-characterized...
... the modelfor those seeking an evidence-based approach to health workforce and health services planning The South Australian Department of Health is already using the WEB model to inform the planning ... development of an extended analytical framework for needs-based health human resources planning J Public Health Management Practice 2009, 15:S56-S61 14 Weiner JP: Expanding the US medical workforce: ... health status of the population and bestpractice (cost-effective) care Expressed demand will only provide a sound basis for workforce planning where supply and demand meet (or at least approximate)...
... tracheal explants for cystic fibrosis research [9,11] The present study used a relevant large animal model of human asthma to establish for the first time an ex vivo tracheal explant model as an investigative ... allergic and non-allergic explants Using a validated large animal model with similar airway structures to human, the tracheal explant model offers great potential for studying the complex mechanisms ... specific and effective therapeutic avenues for asthma treatment This study examined a tracheal tissue explant model as an investigative tool in asthma research A distinct advantage of this explant model, ...
... tracheal explants for cystic fibrosis research [9,11] The present study used a relevant large animal model of human asthma to establish for the first time an ex vivo tracheal explant model as an investigative ... allergic and non-allergic explants Using a validated large animal model with similar airway structures to human, the tracheal explant model offers great potential for studying the complex mechanisms ... specific and effective therapeutic avenues for asthma treatment This study examined a tracheal tissue explant model as an investigative tool in asthma research A distinct advantage of this explant model, ...
... that the HME3M performance can be less precise than SVM or PLR models However the larger range of CCR performances is not large enough to affect the significance of the performance gains made by ... Figure for tolerance levels 0.05 and 0.1 HME3M is outperforming all comparison models for all values of M However for tolerance we initially observe the polynomial and radial SVM kernels outperforming ... clear from Figure that for all tolerances the mean CCR for HME3M after M = is consistently greater than all other methods and the optimal performance being observed at M = An Page of interesting...
... eosinophils and mast cells release immune mediators that can modulate the immune response Eosinophils can also degranulate to release an array of cytotoxic granule proteins that can kill bacteria and ... receptor-related orphan receptor γt (RORγt) In mice, transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) and the cytokines IL-6, IL-21 and IL-23 are important for TH17 differentiation (87) IL-17A and IL-17F produced ... maturation (30) Therefore, in order for the lung DCs to induce an immune response to the allergen, both the antigen and a danger signal must be present to induce DC maturation and antigen presentation...
... the number of k-best candidates increases, the PCFG model outperforms the TDS-reranker both according to the BDS and the JDS Unfortunately, the performance of the reranking model worsens progressively ... Figure compares the Fscore performance of the TDS-reranker against the PCFG-reranker Our system consistently outperforms the PCFG model on this metric, as for UAS, and BAS Concerning the other ... have chosen µ to be for the first model, and 50 for the second and the third Those which have certain function tags (e.g ADV, LOC, TMP) The full list is reported in (Sangati and Mazza, 2009) It...
... Translation and MetricsMATR, pages 17–53 Colin Cherry and Dekang Lin 2007 Inversion transduction grammar for joint phrasal translation modeling In Proceedings of the NAACL Workshop on Syntax and ... probability modelfor statistical machine translation pages 133–139 Robert C Moore and Chris Quirk 2007 An iterativelytrained segmentation-free phrase translation modelfor statistical machine translation ... in each corpus for TM and LM training, tuning, and testing 7.1 Experimental Setup The data for French, German, and Spanish are from the 2010 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (Callison-Burch...
... named-entity and contains an indefinite NP in a subject position This supports the claims in (Yang et al., 2004a) that coreferential information is an important factor to evaluate a candidate antecedent ... Sixth Message understanding Conference (MUC-6), pages 45– 52, San Francisco, CA Morgan Kaufmann Publishers X Yang and J Su 2007 Coreference resolution using semantic relatedness information from automatically ... with “Mr Powell”, and therefore refers to a male person and cannot co-refer with “she” The entity-mention model based on Eq (2) performs coreference resolution at an entity-level For simplicity,...
... D Liu and H Zhang Automatic mood detection and tracking of music audio signals IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 14(1): 5-18 (2006) B Pang, L Lee and S Vaithyanathan Thumbs ... Lyric-based Song Sentiment Classification Song sentiment classification based on lyric can be viewed as a text classification task thus can be handled by some standard classification algorithms ... class) and 1,021 assigned heavy-hearted (negative class) We randomly select 2,001 songs (around 75%) for training and the rest for testing We adopt the standard evaluation criteria in text classification, ...
... Yu, and Yang Wang 2011 Cross-lingual sentiment classification via biview non-negative matrix tri-factorization Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, page 289–300 Bo Pang and Lillian ... Compu- 580 tational Linguistics: Human Language TechnologiesVolume 1, page 320–330 Dragos Stefan Munteanu and Daniel Marcu 2005 Improving machine translation performance by exploiting non-parallel ... Lee 2008 Opinion mining and sentiment analysis Found Trends Inf Retr., 2(12):1–135, January Bo Pang, Lillian Lee, and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan 2002 Thumbs up?: sentiment classification using machine...
... • For verbs, generated forms had to match the original form for tense and negation • For adjectives, generated forms had to match the original form for degree of comparison and negation • For ... by Chiang (2007), a weighted grammar of this form can be collected and scored by simple extensions of standard methods for phrase-based translation and efficiently combined with a language model ... phrases extracted for a given source phrase The standard relative frequency estimates for the p(X|Y ) phrase model and the lexical models not provide reasonable values for the decoder scores for unobserved...
... 2nd SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, pages 133–143 Wenbin Jiang, Liang Huang, Qun Liu, and Yajuan L¨ u 2008a A cascaded linear modelfor joint chinese word segmentation and part-of-speech ... ±2 characters The features include characters (C0), pairs of characters (C1–C2), character types (C3), and pairs of character types (C4–C5) In addition, we add pairs of characters and character ... word-character hybrid model Tag B I E S Description Beginning character in a multi-character word Intermediate character in a multi-character word End character in a multi-character word Single-character...
... membrane This ®ts the structural and biochemical data, where PSII core complexes can be observed in one discrete plane and membrane fraction, and LHCII complexes can be observed in another membrane ... contacts between core complexes Biochemical evidence for two grana membrane fractions Biochemical evidence for the presence of two different membrane types in grana thylakoid membrane fractions ... assistance with software and Dr S Prince, Dr S V Rue and Prof G Garab for useful suggestions and debate T D Flint is thanked for plant growth and specimen preparation as well as L Child and P...
... of SP-C variants, and partial sequences of human GpA, Neu and Ros-C Asterisks indicate residues defining the AxxxG or GxxxG motif in SP-C (A29, G33) and other transmembrane helices Human SP-C rSP-C ... sets of NMR resonances for the C-terminal residues 28–34 of porcine SP-C [17] and recombinant rSPC (FFI) [21] (Table 1) in an organic solvent that mimics the lipidic surfactant environment Although ... important for surfactant function should be borne in mind in developing therapeutic pulmonary surfactants Acknowledgements We thank S O Smith (State University of New York at Stony Brook) for kindly...
... these acts and other factors, such as learning gains (Litman and Forbes-Riley, 2006) and the relevance of a contribution for summarization (Wrede and Shriberg, 2003) However, adapting dialogueact ... Interspeech Diane Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley 2006 Correlations betweeen Dialogue Acts and Learning in Spoken Tutoring Dialogue In Natural Language Engineering Diane Litman, Mihai Rotaru, and Greg ... appear “dominant” - statements of fact or opinion, and commands or instructions - and two that appear less dominant - questions or requests for information, and narration of an action We sum...