... to market. Their destination is hundreds of miles away, in Egypt. The journey takes many weeks. For as far as the eye can see, the camels and their herders are the only signs of life. This is ... desert. This is the Sahara.SAHARA MEANS “DESERT”: The name Sahara comes from the Arabic word for “desert.” It is a vast region that extends across parts of ten countries in northern Africa. ... Fahrenheit (58° Celsius), was in the Sahara in 1922. In winter, it can get chilly enough at nighttime for water to freeze.The Sahara is very dry. Most parts of the desert receive just a few inches...
... page 145 for a sample response.Now that you have practiced reading and writing forinformation and understanding as they relate totest questions, let’s look at reading and writing forinformation ... YOURSELF THETESTQUESTION4understood the task, identified the important elements of information needed to explain the task, and orga-nized the information into a logically ordered written presentation.A ... difficult for youto realize that you have identified directions forinformation that you do not have. It’s one thing to know thatthe question needs for you to identify two arguments for unrestricted...
... development, delivery, and language use. For topic development, raters consider whether the test taker has addressed the task and conveyed relevant information. They also consider whether the ... summarized the information in the integrated tasks. Raters evaluate if the delivery of the response is clear and smooth, and whether the delivery is consistent throughout the response for overall ... constructed-response tasks, what level of response demonstrates suffi cient skill.Score Recommendations and RequirementsWith that information, the panel makes score recommendations for each of the...
... Information Ownership Information here is referred to the official events, information provided in university website and course website, informationabout courses, examination result, Information ... responsible for all the information which is carried out in that laboratory, and they have to maintain the secrecy and privacy about some confidential information. Support forInformation ... Gathering all the informationfor performing our thesis was not an easy task as there is no literature, no references and no books available for us to refer for gathering information. We have...
... information? • What information handled by or about the system should not be disclosed and to whom? • Where specifically is the information processed and stored? • What are the types of information ... categories. More detailed guidance about implementing and planning for IT controls can be found in NIST SP 800-18, Guide for Developing Security Plans forInformation Technology Systems, and ... system-related information used to characterize an IT system and its operational environment. Section 3.1.2 suggests the information- gathering techniques that can be used to solicit information...
... commitment to information security 9 6.1.2 Information security co-ordination 10 6.1.3 Allocation of information security responsibilities 10 6.1.4 Authorization process forinformation processing ... that information and to interpret the classification labels from other organizations. Other Information Labeling and secure handling of classified information is a key requirement forinformation ... person having access to information processing facilities, and in particular if these are handling sensitive information, e.g. financial information or highly confidential information, the organization...
... 1979. Representation and classification of knowledge and information for use in interactive information re- trieval. In Human Aspects of Information Science. Oslo: Norwegian Library School. 148 ... 7.1 N=14 Our current modifications to the analysis consist pri- marily of methods for translating facts about discourse structure into rough equivalents within the word-co- occurrence paradigm. ... attempting a complete and theoretically adequate discourse analysis, in order to incorporate insights about discourse without violating the cost -d volume constraints typical of DR systems. The modi~,cations...
... reported information from cities at www.cdproject.net46: Management - Emissions Reduction and AdaptationMeasurement for ManagementCDP Cities 2012 Global ReportIncluding special report on C40 Cities Written ... reporting platform. Seventy-three cities answered CDP’s invitation this year, making public informationabout their greenhouse gas emissions, how they measure them, and their efforts to adapt ... participating cities that reported city-wide emissions, by region.North America Latin America5 of 9 cities EuropeAfrica East Asia South Asia / Oceania17 of 21 cities 19of 22 cities 1 of 9 cities 6...
... training for law enforcement, specialized information on certification programs available and relatedstudy material, sample audit programs, and generalized information system audit andcontrol information. ... vulnerabilitiesdiscovered and fixes available.General IS Audit Information www.isaca.org—ISACA provides information on generally applicable and acceptedstandards for good information technology security and control ... privacy of personal information collected from and about individuals on the Internet, to provide greaterindividual control over the collection and use of that information, and for otherpurposes.Influencing...
... resources for information retrieval tasks. Natural language in-formation retrieval. Kluwer Academic PublishersDordrecht, NL.Bruce Croft and John Lafferty. 2003. Language Mod-eling forInformation ... of Information Retrieval.1 IntroductionThe task of an Information Retrieval (IR) systemis to retrieve documents from a collection, in re-sponse to a user need, which is expressed in theform ... thequeries 401-450 from the ad-hoc task of the 1999Web track, for the WT2G test collection, andthe queries 451-500 from the ad-hoc task of the2000 Web track, for the WT10G test collection,with...
... Syntactic infor-mation was extracted from the gold-standard parsesin TreeBank Release 2. As named entity information is not available in PropBank/TreeBank we taggedthe training corpus with NE information ... 4.29%. For theargument identification task, the head and contentword features have a significant contribution for thetask precision, whereas NE features contribute sig-nificantly to the task recall. ... lex-ical information at most levels in the probabilitylattice, hence its scalability to unknown predicatesis limited. In contrast, the decision tree approachuses predicate lexical information...
... performance with and without such linguistic information. Surprisingly, in many cases, the system performs as well without this information as with it. 1 Introduction The field of information ... devel- opment calls forinformation extraction systems which are as retctrgetable and general as possi- ble. Here, we describe SRV, a learning archi- tecture forinformation extraction ... processor forinformation extraction from real-world text. Proceedings of IJCAI-93, pages 1172-1178. M. E. Califf and R. J. Mooney. 1997. Relational learning of pattern-match rules for informa-...
... Theory for Reasoning about Speech Acts Douglas Appelt, Kurt Konolige Artificial Intelligence Center and Center for the Study of Language and Information SRI International Menlo Park, California ... ation for Computational Linguistics, 1985. [4] Philip R. Cohen and H. Levesque. Rational Interaction as the Basis for Communication. Technical Report, Center for the Study of Language and Information, ... while the hierarchy expresses the way in which this information is combined. For ex- ample, in representing taxonomic defaults, more specific information would take precedence over general attributes....
... lexicon (foreground lexicon) for IE applications by using both a small corpus and WordNet. 2 Developing IE Lexical Resources Lexical information in IE can be divided into three sources of information ... criterion for building lex- ical resources for specific domains. It can be ap- plied in a semiautomatic way. It has the advan- tage of using the information contained in Word- Net for expanding ... in WordNet the field labels that are interesting for the domain 227 Proceedings of EACL '99 The Development of Lexical Resources for Information Extraction from Text Combining WordNet...