... comparison of the combined and the distributional weighting schemas.The combined weighting schema thus showedrelative improvement on the distributional one:1.5% (BNC) and 2.3% (AP) in terms of precisionand ... (c)was the sum of neighbors' votes, each weightedby the distributional similarity of the neighbor tothe test word. Figure 3 compares the precisionand learning accuracy of the combined weightingschema ... based on combinedmeasuresofdistributional andsemantic similarityViktor PekarBashkir State University,450000 Ufa, Russiavpekar@ufanet.ruSteffen StaabInstitute AIFB, University of Karlsruhehttp://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS&...
... the8725.2.1 Data and Resources Measures ofdistributional similarity usually re-quire large amounts of data. For the alignmentmethod we need a parallel corpus of reasonablesize with Dutch either ... Synonyms Using Automatic Word Alignment and Measures of Distributional SimilarityLonneke van der Plas & J¨org TiedemannAlfa-InformaticaUniversity of GroningenP.O. Box 7169700 AS GroningenThe ... ex-tract semantically related words using measures ofdistributional similarity, butthese typically are not able to distin-guish between synonyms and other types of semantically related words such...
... the intersection Vqr of the supports of q and r. This is of interest from a computa- tional point of view because Vqr tends to be a relatively small subset of V, the set of all verbs. Furthermore, ... continuous with respect to r (i.e., the support of q is not a subset of the support of r). 2Strictly speaking, some of these functions are dissim- ilarity measures, but each such function f can be ... pirical comparison of a broad range of similarity metrics using an evaluation methodology that factors out inessential degrees of freedom; a pro- posal, building on this comparison, of a charac-...
... BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE (BEK)THE SIX MEASURESOF INCOME OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Nguyen Tran Bich Ngoc1. Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services ... citizen works temporally in the United States, his production is part of U.S. GDP, but it is not part of U.S. GNP.( It is part of Canada’s GNP). For most countries, including the United States, ... the Department of Commerce, depreciation is called the “ consumption of fixed capital”.4. National income is the total income earned by nation’s residents in the production of goods and services,...
... evaluate the psychometricproperties of the generic quality of life (QoL) scale ChildHealth and Illness Profile-Child Edition (CHIP-CE) bymeans of a combined analysis of atomoxetine clinical trialsin ... twoitems from the SH sub-domain (item 1: ‘‘How often doesyour child have a lot of fun?’’ and item 4: ‘‘How often doesyour child feel happy?’’). The 5 items of the SPS sub-domainTable 3 Cronbach’s ... al.123ORIGINAL ARTICLEPsychometric properties of the quality of life scale Child Healthand Illness Profile-Child Edition in a combined analysis of fiveatomoxetine trialsAlexander Schacht•Rodrigo...
... and the need to do so by means of simple and clear measures. This balanceis particularly difficult to reach in the field of psychology of art, given the risk of oversimplifying psychological ... application in the field of psychology of art. The next question con-cerned the choice of semantic scales. Eysenck (1940) argued for the existence of ageneral factor of aesthetic experience, ... differentials of aesthetic appreciation of photographs. InJ. P. Frois, P. Andrade, & J. F. Marques (Eds.), Art and science. Proceedings of theXVIII Congress of the International Association of Empirical...
... contextual features areused. We evaluated the influence of context byvarying both the position and the size of the win-dow of words (i.e., parts of speech) surroundingthe candidate compound. The ... represents a window of twowords to the left and four words to the right of thecandidate noun-noun sequence. Table 5 shows theperformance of the two classifiers for some of thecontextual feature ... (8M words) for his study and apredefined list of 90,000 nouns which had no part- of- speech ambiguity. He reports an accuracy of 97.9% on a sample of 1,068 noun-noun sequences.Note that the above...
... the findings of the first stage of analysis withthe larger community of concerned professionals, we came across issues that widened our perspective of the problem and of the scope of mechanisms ... the process of the ‘makingsocial of disease’ (Frankenberg 1980:199). The concept of sickness involves particularly aconsciousness of the role of social relations in their expression of power, ... of reproductive morbidity at thecommunity level is one of the primary objectives of the study, the research team put a great deal of effort into the construction of the morbidity component of...
... use of selective inhibitors as convenient tools to study the spe-cificity of the somatic form of ACE. Thus, with thisapproach, the catalytic property of each domaintowards the hydrolysis of ... enzyme. The conservation of these residues was then checked, using aligned sequences of the N-domain and C-domain of human, mouse and ratenzymes. The model of the N-domain of human ACE(ACE-N) was ... substrates of ACE (angiotensin I, brady-kinin and N-acetyl-seryl-aspartyl-lysyl-proline) has beenestablished only for the human enzyme [21], because of the availability of a mutant form of the...
... takenfor the actual assembly of the objects. Also, other measures of the user’s gaze behaviour might be885Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP of the AFNLP, pages 879–887,Suntec, ... under a range of conditions andthen completed a user-satisfaction ques-tionnaire. The results of this study pro-vide a wide range of subjective and ob-jective measuresof the quality of the in-teractions. ... considered four measuresof dialogue qual-ity. The first two measures looked specifically forsigns of problems in the interaction, using data au-881useful: more global measures such as how oftenthe...
... Analysis ofDistributional Similarity NetworksChris BiemannMicrosoft/Powerset, San FranciscoChris.Biemann@microsoft.comMonojit ChoudhuryMicrosoft Research Lab Indiamonojitc@microsoft.comAnimesh ... vs.eigenvector centrality of the words in the DSNs of 5000 nodes.eigenvectors. Furthermore, the graceful decay of the eigenvalues of the syntactic DSN implies theexistence of a hierarchical community ... targetnouns.3 Spectrum of DSNsSpectral analysis refers to the systematic study of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a network. Al-though here we study the spectrum of the adja-cency matrix of the weighted...
... behaviours anduse of health care services, as well as socio-demographic data from arepresentative sample of the non-institutionalised population of Catalonia,a region in the North East of Spain with ... expansion of public care services, to date veryunderdeveloped in Spain, such as respite services to the family of thedependants, the expansion of home visits to elderly people by healthprofessionals, ... social inequalities in health among elderly peoplehas suggested using a set ofmeasuresof socio-economic position instead of a single indicator in order to explore the multidimensional nature socio-economic...
... diversity of AIFs and different types of assets they are invested in. The ‘conduct of business rules’ of Article 12(1) of the AIFMD correspond to a large extent to the ‘conduct of business rules’ of ... description of the types of risk arising from professional negligence and to advise on methods for calculating the re-spective amounts of additional own funds or the coverage of the professional ... portfolios of AIF under man-agement by a particular AIFM and the calculation of the value of assets under management by the AIFM on behalf of these AIFs. 2. It is the responsibility of the AIFM...
... stan-dard measuresof language development: (i) MLU,a measure of utterance length, (ii) mean depth of de-pendency parse trees, a measure of syntactic com-plexity similar to that of Yngve (1960), ... the age of a held-out language sam-ple. We find that on average, existing single met-rics of development are outperformed by a weightedcombination of our features.In our second set of experiments, ... collection of corpora frommany studies of child language based on episodicspeech data. Since we are interested in developmentover time, our corpus consists of seven longitudinalstudies of individual...