... possible facets.Another key characteristic of rich domainslike financial analysis, is that facts and events aresubject to interpretation in context. Toa finan-cial analyst, it makes a difference ... were annotated withthe types of financial transactions they are mostrelated to. Paragraphs that did not fall into a category of interest were classified as “other”.The annotated paragraphs ... Maytag: A multi-staged approachto identifyingcomplex events in textual dataConrad Chang, Lisa Ferro, John Gibson, Janet Hitzeman, Suzi Lubar, Justin Palmer,Sean Munson, Marc Vilain, and Benjamin...
... strength and formation (Swanson 1950). Guar gum is a branched galactomannan polymer which has a linear 1-4 ȕ-D-mannan backbone with 1-6-linked Į-D-galactose side groups on approximately every ... (side groups), that can again carry galactopyranose, fucopyranose, and arabinofuranose residues (Dumitriu 2005; Zhou et al. 2007). Xyloglucan from tamarind, a commercial product, has only xylose ... contribute to the understanding of paper as a material. In this thesis a new outlook to fibre bonding and paper strength was adopted in order to explain the interactions between strength additives and...
... message to make the Mac users laugh.4Pretend you're using an i-podby placing a bee in each earand holding a gaudy pencil case to be ina pain in everyone's rear.5Entertain the passengersstretch ... othershistoryis a corpseleave it aloneit teaches us nothingexcept how to repeat past mistakesagain and again and againWARWarwhat is it good for?Reinvigorating depressed economiesand winning ... Sellotape a photo of Hitleronto a beer matand then smear his facewith a gallon of pig fat.3Pretend you're using a laptopby folding some cardboard in halfand writing a windows error...
... to that variable as an“indicator” of the outcome variable, whereas researchers would typically call it a correlateinstead. For example, a child’s level of empathy may be one of many indicators ... 73Summary 74CHAPTER 6: Moving Forward: What Can Leaders Do? 77Part A. The Work of Implementing the Approach Data Gathering - Gaining Understanding of the Current Situation 79Determining What to ... to Assess 79Identifying Data Sources and Data Collection Strategies 81Collecting the Data 82Analyzing and Interpreting the Data to Inform Decisions 84Intervening—Deciding What to Do and...
... UniversityPrinceton, NJ 08540, USAusyed@cs.princeton.eduJason D. WilliamsShannon LaboratoryAT&T Labs — ResearchFlorham Park, NJ 07932, USAjdw@research.att.comAbstractWe use an EM algorithm to ... θ be the maximum likelihoodestimate using automatically transcribed data,i.e., θasu=eKDasP a eKDas. This approach ignorestranscription errors and assumes that user be-havior depends ... we cannot assume that the tran-scripts will accurately reflect the users’ true actionsand internal states. To handle this uncertainty, weemploy an EM algorithm that treats this informationas...
... that debate relevant key issues. e material on marketing approaches draws on in excess of 25 additional interviews with active marketing practitioners in business and academia. A host of marketing ... civil leaders have also referred to Al Jazeera as a “channel of terrorism.”29 Given Al Jazeera’s dominance in the Arabic language market, such accusa-tions have particular resonance with ... Meaningful and Salient End States 64e Marketing Approachto Positioning 64Applying Positioning to Operational eaters 69Understand Key Branding Concepts 70An Introduction to Key Branding...
... information on the Internet in an ever-increasing variety of languages2dic-tates the importance of developing multilingualsummarization approaches. There is a particu-lar need for language-independent ... Computational Linguistics A new Approachto Improving Multilingual Summarization using a Genetic AlgorithmMarina LitvakBen-Gurion Universityof the NegevBeer Sheva, Israellitvakm@bgu.ac.ilMark LastBen-Gurion ... language as input.” In this pa-per, we introduce MUSE, a language-independent approach for extractive sum-marization based on the linear optimiza-tion of several sentence ranking measuresusing...
... chair is expected to have a remarkable ability in presentation technique and has a distinctive and influential social role involved in taking the chair at a meeting. Since meeting is a gathering ... effectiveness in using language ina formal meeting to conclude what gained from my study. Due to the knowledge and experience limitation, grammatical spelling and typing mistakes are unavoidable in ... requires a meeting, or meetings of some sort. E.g.: We are having a meeting on Thursday to look at the proposal again. Or in more details, meeting is a concept dominating three factors: + When a...
... Gharibyan AL, Zamotin V, Yanamandra K, MoskalevaOS, Margulis BA, Kostanyan IA & Morozova-RocheLA (2007) Lysozyme amyloid oligomers and fibrilsinduce cellular death via different apoptotic ... ThT-binding capabil-ity, similar to the metastable aggregates of aDrs. Inter-estingly, the same behaviour was observed for a C-terminally amidated aDrs (aDrsa) (data not shown).However, C-terminal ... supernatantswas determined with a Cyto Tox 96Ò non-radioactive cyto-toxicity assay (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Untreated cells were used to determine...
... general Constituent Likelihood approachto grammatical analysis, and CLAWS in particular, can be used to analyse text including ill-formed syntax. More importantly, it can also be adapted to ... that this approach was impractical because of the time and effort required to collect the necessary data. In any case, an alternative technique which managed without a separate table of tag-pair ... and then measuring ABSOLUTE LIKELIHOODS of tag- pairs. Instead of a separate tag-pair error likelihood table to assess the grammaticality, the same tag-pair frequency table is used for tag-assignment...