... implications for management at all levels of the company, and for the culture of the company. For human resources management two behaviours are clearly indicated: learning to listen,and empowering ... on-site training and technology transfer, a series of externalseminars and meetings were organised: meetings were held for specialists from ASEANcountries and Japan; education and training in ... This can only be achieved by a change in management style and way ofthinking, and by an overall change in the company culture. All of this is what TQM is about.3. The central role of managementTQM...
... that using the GLR* parser results in a significant improvement in performance. When using the full heuristics, the percentage of sentences, for which the parser returned a parse that matched ... selected by our integrated parse eval- uation heuristic. References [Briscoe and Carroll, 1993] T. Briscoe and J. Carroll. Generalized Probabilistic LR Parsing of Natural Lan- guage (Corpora) ... Computational Linguistics, 19(1):25-59, 1993. [Lavie and Tomita, 1993] A. Lavie and M. Tomita. GLR* - An Efficient Noise-skipping Parsing Algo- rithm for Context-free Grammars. In Proceedings of...
... the 19th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Stanford, California, pp. 133-138 Bobrow, R.(1978) The RUS System, BBN Report 3878, Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc., ... than the informational structure of the dictionary. Similarly, choice of font can be varied for reasons of appearance and occasionally information normally associated with one field of an ... syntactic and semantic information of this kind, therefore, if the information provided by the Longman grammar code system is to be of use we need to be able to separate out this information and...
... and righthand side of the nodes.Foresighted Layout with Tolerance (FLT) An animateddynamic graph visualisation based on a node-link rep-resentation.FLT is an offline approach to compute animated ... access detail information and on the otherhand to uncover general regularities and anomalies of thegraph structure. This includes that the user is able to detectand read information like edge ... a comicstrip.Animation An animation is a sequence of images whichare shown one after another. Each image representsone of the graphs or an intermediate step of a smoothtransition from one...
... Davis, Haltiwanger, and Schuh (1996); Foster, Haltiwanger, and Krizan (2001);Syverson (2004); and Becker et al. (2006).6See Bartelsman and Doms (2000) and Foster, Haltiwanger, and Krizan (2001, ... organization only when an external economic exchange takes place,such as an initial payment for supplies, wages paid to an employee, or thereceipt of financial support for business purposes. For ... Dynamics,and Performance is to develop strategies for improving the accuracy, cur-rency, coverage, and integration of data used in academic and agency re-search on business formation and dynamics, and...
... Iterative Reinforcement Approach for Simultaneous Document Summarization and Keyword Extraction Xiaojun Wan Jianwu Yang Jianguo Xiao Institute of Computer Science and Technology Peking University, ... Most recently, graph-based ranking methods, in-cluding TextRank ((Mihalcea and Tarau, 2004, 2005) and LexPageRank (ErKan and Radev, 2004) have been proposed for document summarization. Similar ... graph-based ranking algo-rithms have been successfully used for document summarization (Mihalcea and Tarau, 2004, 2005; ErKan and Radev, 2004) and keyword extraction (Mihalcea and Tarau, 2004)....
... Sciences and Technology 24 (2008) 110-121 110 An integrated approach foran academic advising system in adaptive credit-based learningenvironment Nguyen Thanh Binh*, Hoang Thi Anh Duong, Tran ... framework emphasizes its application within an open adaptive credit-based learning, providing abilities for accessing and managing, in anintegrated manner, the adaptive interaction, adaptive ... tool and counseling itself [11]. The personal study plan helps learner to schedule studies for his forthcoming year and it also stands as a tool for monitoring the progress of studies both for...
... from an analysis step to another and thescope of the available analysis models is conse-quently increased. In addition, each analysis mod-ule indicates antecedent markups to which it refersand ... thevariability of analysis grain between differentanalysis steps. Many analysis models require aminimal grain to be defined, called token. For ex-ample, formalisms such as grammar or transduc-ers ... platform allowsto define locally the unit types which have to beconsidered as tokens. Any previously marked unitcan be used as such: usual tokenisation in wordsor any other beforehand analysed...
... methanol on an acidic site and an adsorbed methoxy anion on a basic site. Bandiera and Naccacheproposed that Brønsted acid–Lewis base pair sites might be responsible for DME formation in methanol ... less bright and not as strong as ECF pulps. Upgrading a plant from an elemental chlorine bleach plant to an ECF plant would require a 33% increase in energy usage for the bleach plant because ... Appendix A, the energy demand for the modified pulping section of the plant is 56 MW of electricity and 267 tonnes per day of steam. The demand for the steam in the plant is met by the recovery...
... candidate design for a bridge or an aeroplane before trying to build one,since the chance of it ‘working’ would be remote(because it is ‘complex’, and this is because its compo-nents are many ... Sensitivityanalysis is a generalized form of MCA [30] that isarguably the starting point for the analysis of anymodel [36], and that is useful in many other domains(e.g. [145]). This sensitivity analysis ... programming as a platform for in silico meta-bolic engineering. BMC Bioinformatics 6, 308.81 Fersht A (1977) Enzyme Structure and Mechanism, 2ndedn. W.H. Freeman, San Francisco.82 Keleti T...
... term, information, and answer extraction)has been to argue that for many purposes, shallownatural language processing (SNLP) of texts canprovide sufficient information for highly accurateand useful ... well-formed sentences. Using anintegrated approach, ashallow checker can be used to cheaply identify ini-tial error candidates, while false alarms can be elim- An Integrated Architecture for ... is thus called for is an integrated, flexible architecture where components can play attheir strengths. Partial analyses from SNLP can beused to identify relevant candidates for the focusseduse...
... English is to force the use of the right hand side of the IRule which specifies the semantic 37 AN ENVIRONMENTFOR ACQUIRING SEMANTIC INFORMATION Damaris M. Ayuso, Varda Shaked, and Ralph M. ... Project: KREME Knowledge Editing Environment. BBN Report No. 6231, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., 1986. 2. Allen, J.F. and Litman, D.J. "Plans, Goals, and Language'. Proceedings of the ... model, forms the semantic backbone of our system. Meaning is represented in terms of domain model predicates; its hierarchy is used for enforcing selectional restrictions and for IRule inheritance;...
... specifies an active edge and an inactive edge that can extend it. An insertion task specifies a nondeterministie unification act, and a virtual task involves extension of an edge to include an inactive ... hypothesis. The object is already there, analyzed for the other reading and does not need to be reanalyzed. So a Milano is taken as the filler for the impulse and the analysis is concluded properly. ... the LFG environment, which was probably the first of its kind, an environment built by Ron Kaplan for Lexical- Functional Grammars, DPATR, built by Lauri Karttunen and conceived as an environment...
... pages 61–66,Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005.c2005 Association for Computational Linguistics Towards an Optimal Lexicalization in a Natural-Sounding Portable Natural Language Generator for Dialog ... of utterances that are free of disfluencies and interruptions, and where complete and syntactically correct sentences convey the meaning in a concise yet clear manner. Secondly we can define ... Goods and Seller. It also provides an overview of the valence patterns that were found in the annotated sentences for this frame. FrameNet does not include frequency information for each annotation....
... results. For this purpose, wepropose and develop an audit environment, which consists ofa database transformation method and a result verificationmethod. The main component of our audit environment ... integrity problem is to con-struct an audit environment. Essentially, an audit environ-ment consists of (i) a set of transformation methods thattransform a database T to another database U, based onwhich ... are performed for each instanceof the database. A larger amount of resources, such as stor-age and preparation cost can be invested for the outsourceddatabase model, since the cost can be amortized...