... cut-off 0.05 by varying the threshold for the confidence values. In order to show the effects of the use ofthe training SCFs, I also performedclustering of SCF confidence-value vectors in the acquired ... centroid cut-off0.05*). The graph shows that clustering is mean-ingful only when we make use ofthe reliable SCFsin the manually-coded lexicon. The centroid cut-off using the lexicon ofthe grammar ... to its closest centroid3 The expectation and variance ofthe beta distribution aremade equal to those ofthe observed probability values. Improving theAccuracyofSubcategorizations Acquired...
... may also needdifferent types of care, depending on whetherthey are still in school or whether they aremarried. Indeed, the extent of sexual activityoutside of marriage varies greatly. In ... not providethem with services, either because they be-lieve the centers cater exclusively to the needs of pregnant women, infants, and small chil-dren or because they think that the staff willdiscriminate ... more acceptable to young adults by improving the quality of existing health serv-ices, including making care more accessible. Improving the acceptability of health serviceshas several important...
... “O”,which indicates a non-named entity. For 98.0% of the named entities in the training data ofthe sharedtask in the 2004 JNLPBA, the label ofthe preced-ing entity was “O”.In order to incorporate ... of semi-CRFsSince the purpose ofthe filtering is to reduce the computational cost, rather than to achieve a goodF-score by itself, we chose the threshold probabil-ity of filtering so that the ... the upper boundlength of entities, N is the length of sentence andK is the size of label set. And that of training infirst order semi-CRFs is O(K2LN). The increase of the cost is used to transfer...
... by the need to balancedepth of analysis against the size ofthe deriva-tion space. On the Susanne corpus, the geometricmean ofthe number of analyses for a sentence of length n is 1.31n. The ... fifth of DepBank is held out to optimize the speed and accuracyofthe three systems. Theyconclude from the results of these experiments that the cut-down XLE parser is two-thirds the speed of ... trained on the WallStreet Journal (WSJ) subset ofthe Penn Tree-Bank (PTB). Evaluation of these systems has beenmostly in terms ofthe PARSEVAL scheme usingtree similarity measures of (labelled)...
... finding emphasized the importance of an integrated system that would promote delivery of care to mothers and infants based on the level of acuity. The concept prompted the March of Dimes, in 1976, ... non-Hispanic white mothers to die in the first year of life (13.4 and 5.6 per 1,000 live births in 2006). 7Toward Improvingthe Outcome of Pregnancy IIImarchofdimes.comHistory ofthe Quality ... relies on the World Health Organization defini-tion: The death of a woman while preg-nant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective ofthe duration and site ofthe pregnancy,...
... Compute RMSE of DEM Fig. 1. The workflow for assessing the influence of interpolation technique on theaccuracyof DEM by using ArcGIS software. In the next step, the elevations of interpolated ... by the sample data range. The main parameters of the spline interpolation are the number of sampled points used for interpolation, and the weight. For the regularized spline, the higher the ... accuracyof DEM. The influence of interpolation technique on the DEM accuracy depends on the type of topography, and the distribution of sample points, what is directly related to the surveying...
... implement. The Backoff Erk model is the best, using the Baseline for the majority of decisions and backing off to the Erk smoothingmodel when the Baseline cannot answer.Figure 5 (shown on the next ... Accuracy is the same asrecall when the model does not guess betweenpseudo words that have the same conditional prob-abilities. Accuracy +50% (the full Baseline inall other figures) shows the ... years of NYT data (Trainx2). Accuracyofthe models on the same NYT testdocuments, but with three different ways of choos-ing the confounders. * indicates statistical signifi-cance with the...
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... IndianHealthDataCollaborativeComprehensivedataon the health of AI/ANinWashingtonisseverelylackingasAI/ANraceisoftenunderreportedormisclassified.Estimation of diseaseratesoftenrelieson the use of vitalrecords,includingbirthanddeathcertificates,diseaseregistries,andcensusdata.Errorsand/orinaccuraciesoccurwhendataforAI/ANcommunitiesarereportedincompletelyorarenotreportedaccurately.Acloselyrelatedproblemarisesdueto the factthateachdatasystemmayrecordracedifferently. The impact of thisdifferentialrecording of raceon the completenessand accuracy ofthe numbersandrates of healtheventsforAI/ANsisdifficult,ifnot ... impossible,toquantify. The variousentitiesthatmanagespecificAI/ANhealthdatasetsoftenemploydifferingmethodsforcollecting,adjusting,anddistributingdata.Agreatereffortisneededtocollaborateacrossagenciesandinstitutesthatareconductingresearchandcollectingdatainordertobeginaccuratelyportraying the trueextent of Indianhealthdisparities.Severalagencies,organizations,andinstitutionshaveexpressedarenewedinterestincomingtogethertobeginaconversationonhowthismightbeachieved.Accuratedataisnecessarytosupportassessmentandpolicydevelopmenttoimproveservicedeliveryandhealthstatus of Indianpeople.Withoutpaintingamorethoroughpicture of IndianhealthinWashingtontoday, the abilitytoplanorimproveservices,monitorquality,andanalyzecostsisseverelyimpaired.Tribalgovernmentsmustbeintricatelyinvolvedinsucheffortstoassure the use ofthe dataisculturallyappropriate,acceptable,andmeaningfulin improvingthe health of theirpeople.Byreinstitutingeffortsthatbeganin1997between the commissionand the WashingtonStateDepartment of HealththroughanAmericanIndianDataCommittee,anupdatedframeworkcanbedevelopedforaddressingpriorityhealthissuesforAI/AN.ThereareseveralentitiesthatconsistentlyconductresearchandcollectandinterpretdataonAI/AN.Over the nexttwoyears, the commissionwillpartnerwith the Department of Health, the NorthwestPortlandAreaIndianHealthBoard, the UrbanIndianInstitute,andotherepidemiology/research‐basedcenterswithagoal of developingamorecomprehensiveunderstanding ofthe current‐dayhealth ofthe AI/ANpopulationandprovidingTribes,Tribalorganizations,and the statemoreaccurateinformationneededtoaddresspublichealthpolicyissuesimportanttoTribalcommunities.C. ... First,aState‐Tribal‐UrbanIndianHealthCollaborativehasbeenre‐institutedatastate/triballeaderpolicylevelforaddressingappropriatesystemschangeandpolicydecisionsthatneedtobemadetochangehealthoutcomesforIndianpeople.Thisgroup—comprised of tribalgovernments,healthstaff,andstateleadersacrossmultiplesystemsanddepartments—willbestrategicallyaligningstatewideIndianhealthdisparitiesworkwithGovernorGregoire’s5‐PointHealthCareInitiative.Thiswillallow the grouptoleverageexistingresources,maximize the limitedfundscurrentlyavailable,andcreate the infrastructurenecessarytofurtherreduceIndianhealthdisparitiesin the future.Second,severalagencies,organizations,andinstitutionshaveexpressedarenewedinterestincomingtogethertodevelopamorecompleteset of AmericanIndianhealthstatusdata.Accuratedataisnecessarytosupportcommunityhealthassessmentsandpolicydevelopmenttoimproveservicedeliveryandhealthstatus of Indianpeople.Withoutpaintingamorethoroughpicture of IndianhealthinWashingtontoday, the abilitytoplanorimproveservices,monitorquality,andanalyzecostsisseverelyimpaired.Tribalgovernmentsmustbeintricatelyinvolvedinsucheffortstoassure the use ofthe dataisculturally‐appropriate,acceptable,andmeaningfulin improvingthe health of theirpeople.Byreinstitutingeffortsthatbeganin1997between the AmericanIndianHealthCommissionandWashingtonStateDepartment of HealththroughanAmericanIndianDataCommittee,anupdatedframeworkcanbedevelopedforaddressingpriorityhealthissuesforAI/AN.Third,sweepingnationalhealthreformand the currentadministrationofferauniqueopportunityforchangeinhowhealthcareisprovidedtoAI/ANs.AsIndianhealthleadershipsuchas the U.S.IndianHealthServices, the NationalIndianHealthBoard,andmoreregionally, the NorthwestPortlandAreaIndianHealthBoard,stronglyadvocatesfor the inclusion of Indianhealthreforminnationalreformstrategies, the stateisalsorethinkinghowitprovidesquality,affordable,andcost‐effectivehealthcaretoitscitizens. The state,Tribes,and the commissionwillactivelypartnerintheseeffortstoaddress the needforAI/ANincreasedaccesstoexistingservices,increasedTribalproviderreimbursementopportunitiessoculturally‐appropriateservicescanbeprovidedinTribalcommunities,anddevelopmechanismsforevaluatingprogressforimprovedIndianhealthstatus.SectionIII,2007‐2009Accomplishments,highlightssome ofthe majorachievementsmadeforIndianhealthin the statesince the lastplanwaspublishedin2007.Additionalpartnershipshavebeendeveloped,keypolicyissueshavebeenaddressed,andthere...
... details ofthe two parsers.53shows that converting gold-standard CCG deriva-tions into the GRs in DepBank resulted in an F-score of only 85%; hence the upper bound on the performance ofthe CCG ... comparison ofthe CCGparser with a PTB parser, obtaining competitivescores for the CCG parser on a representative sub-set ofthe PTB test sections. It is important to notethat the purpose of this ... based on the PTB back to the PTB, and we also comment on the (non-)suitability of the PTB as a general formalism-independentevaluation resource. A second contribution is toprovide the first accuracy...
... =n(r,fij)n(fij),is defined as the ratio between the number of oc-currences of a relation r in the presence of fea-ture pair fijover the number of occurrences of feature pair fijin the corpus. The most proba-ble ... the contribution the features exemplified in one baselineand six versions ofthe SVM model. The baseline isdefined only for the English part ofthe NP featureset and measures thethe contribution ofthe ... EXPERIENCER, THEME, BENEFICIARY.Out of these instances, 74.81% use the preposition of. In CLUVI, 11.71% ofthe examples were ver-bal, from which the preposition of has a coverage of 82.20%. The many-to-many...
... preventive mission of their home agency, insofar as this may becompatible with the programs of the consultee institution. The terms ofthe job descriptions of school psychologists ... and the leverage of the consultant-consultee relationship. The consultant seeksto support the professional autonomy of the consultees so that they will real-ize that it is their ... process and the relevance or appropriateness of selected theoretical applications. The Client The nature of the case, the setting in which the client resides or works, the re-sources...
... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public. The Instituteacts under the responsibility given to the ... Services,and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) ofthe Department of Veter-ans Affairs for their support for the application ofthe Quality Chasm frame-work as a tool for improvingthe quality of ... Development; the Agency forHealthcare Research and Quality; the Department of Justice; the De-partment of Veterans Affairs; the Department of Defense; the Depart-ment of Education; the Centers...
... by the entity, the auditor would disclose the name ofthe individual who performed the audit procedures and not the name ofthe entity. The disclosure ofthe names of other participants in the ... on the income tax provision, the auditor would disclose the name ofthe entity, instead ofthe names ofthe individuals from the entity, who performed the audit procedures. However, if the ... appendix. The proposed amendments would require the disclosure ofthe name ofthe independent public accounting firms and the country of their headquarters' office location and the name of persons...