... under a range of conditions andthen completed a user-satisfaction ques-tionnaire. The results of this study pro-vide a wide range ofsubjective and ob-jective measuresof the quality of the in-teractions. ... 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, ... not remember.4.2 Subjective Measures Two types ofsubjectivemeasures were gath-ered during this study: responses on the user-satisfaction questionnaire, and self-assessment of emotions. Table...
... 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,...
... adequately complement subjectivemeasuresof aesthetic experience, suchas the semantic judgments of beauty and pleasantness, with an objective measure,in this case, the strength of the memory trace. ... 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 ... wealth of knowledge,it is also true that the use of good objective methods, given their reliability,constitutes a valuable addition to subjective measurements.The identification of objective measures...
... nature of the context applied and the results of the synonymextraction task.5.1.1 Data and ResourcesAs our data we used the Dutch CLEF QA cor-pus, which consists of 78 million words of Dutch2Note ... of nouns can occur as the subject of the verb have, for instance, whereas only a fewnouns may occur as the object of squeeze. Intu-itively, the fact that two nouns both occur as sub-ject of ... asobject of squeeze. To account for this intuition,the frequency of occurrence in a vector can be re-placed by a weighted score. The weighted scoreis an indication of the amount of information...
... 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-...
... standard distance-weightedversion of KNN (up to 2.3% of relative im-provement), it definitively outperformed it interms of learning accuracy (up to 9.2% of relativeimprovement).ReferencesE.Alfonseca ... five measures. Proceedings of NorthAmerican Chapter of ACL Workshop on WordNetand Other Lexical Resources.U.Hahn and K.Schattinger. 1998. Towards text know-ledge engineering. Proceedings of ... for a review of semantic similarity meas-Ures.In principle, it can be any type of a classifier that assigns some score to eachclass, such as votes of nearest neighbors in the case of KNN or probabilitiesin...
... 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...
... 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...
... and Table 4 show the overlap (in terms of proportion of identically selected articles) betweenpairs of similarity measures. As shown in Table 3,for all measures there is only a small overlap ... a small portion of thedataset is manually annotated: 281 articles.14Since we want to evaluate the performance of different similarity measures, we want to keep theinfluence of noise as low ... worse.Results of Similarity Measures Table 2 com-pares the effect of the different ways to select re-lated data in comparison to the random baseline forincreasing amounts of training data....
... way of looking at the ability of a dairy farm to meet its debt obligations is by looking at the total level of debt per cow. While the debt to asset ratio measures the overall debt position of ... living.3ContentsIntroduction 4Gaining Control of Your Business 6The 15 Measures 8Measure 1: Rate of Production — Pounds of Milk Sold Per Worker 10Measure 2: Cost Control — Total Feed Cost Per Cwt of Milk Sold 12Measure ... Costs Per Cwt of Milk Sold and Amount of Feed Needed for Dairy CattleTable A. Change in Feed Cost Per Cwt of Milk Based on Changes in Prices for Corn and Hay.1Total Feed Cost Per Cwt of MilkCorn...
... number of errors by the number of words or T-units, but by the number of obligatory contexts. Thus, she was coding correct uses of each of the structures examined as well. She divided the number of ... of T-units, the number of clauses, the number of words,and the number of error-free T-units. After we had coded severalpractice essays, problems regarding each of these counts arose.Most of ... accu-racy, I found 3 different types of measures: holistic scales, number of error-free units, and number of errors (with or without errorclassification). A summary of these studies appears in Table...
... Groupfrom 1999–2005, a leading usability consulting firm that offered user-centereddesign and technology adoption strategies. Jeff served on the Board of the Usability Professionals Association from ... about usability, and how to achieve it — that is, untilit is time to evaluate the usabilityof a product (which requires an operationaldefinition and precise measurement).This trivializing ofusability ... 22Improving Profitability 22Basics of the Methodology 23Basic Elements ofUsability Testing 25Limitations of Testing 25Chapter 3 When Should You Test? 27Our Types of Tests: An Overview 27Exploratory...
... Hagopian4Address: 1School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 2Department of Nursing, Aga Khan University School of Nursing, Kampala, Uganda, 3Department of Medicine, Makerere ... http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/6/1/5Page 3 of 11(page number not for citation purposes)graphics, stability and safety of the country, finances,sense of professional pride and obligation, future plans,and outlook of working ... with the continued exodus of nurses from Afri-can countries [2]. Africa, with 24 percent of the global bur-den of disease, employs only three percent of all healthprofessionals [5]. Nurses in...