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Satellite dishes like this owned by Wood Television Corp. in Bowling Green, Ohio, receive broadcast signals and retransmit them through the cable to subscribers. Rural local governments tend to regulate cable television (CTV) far less effectively than suburban local governments. That is the major conclusion from a survey of 119 small municipal governments in Maryland. Rural governments need to ...

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Reasoning about definiteness without articles∗

• Pragmatic competition must be sensitive to the grammatical well-formedness of alternatives: alternatives must be grammatical in order to compete. • In cases where meanings are not associated with particular morphemes but with complex constructions, deriving certain implicatures must involve comparison between syntactically complex expressions. • For such cases, comparing themeanings of isolat...

A Short Report about Usability

In this paper a general overview of the concept of usability in interfaces of machinery is given, with a special focus on computer software. Amongst other things ulterior motives and the benefits of usable interface design are explicated. Moreover the concepts described are exemplified by their usage in Web design. Introduction We encounter the concepts of usability every day in many different ...

Articles: Bootstrapping Distributional Feature Vector Quality

This article presents a novel bootstrapping approach for improving the quality of feature vector weighting in distributional word similarity. The method was motivated by attempts to utilize distributional similarity for identifying the concrete semantic relationship of lexical entailment. Our analysis revealed that a major reason for the rather loose semantic similarity obtained by distribution...