Preface: URSI general lectures

Lectures

PREFACE

KOFI A . ANNAN Secretary - General PREFACE

Part II of the Survey examines the question of vulnerability. Some countries feel that their economic fortunes are hostage to the interplay of impersonal market forces. Some are frequent victims of natural disasters, such as floods and earthquakes. Many others, such as landlocked nations or countries with economies in transition, face more specific obstacles to full engagement in world financia...

Preface from NTCIR-9 General Chairs

The NTCIR is a series of evaluation workshops designed to enhance research on information access technologies, including information retrieval, cross-language information access, question-answering, information extraction, text mining, etc., with East Asian languages such as Chinese, Korean, and Japanese as well as English. Emphasis has been placed on East Asian languages, but it has attracted ...

Preface