Our experiments rely on a combination of machine-learning (CRF) and rule-based (HeidelTime) systems. First, a CRF system identifies both EVENTS and TIMEX3, along with polarity values for EVENT and types of TIMEX. Second, the HeidelTime tool identifies DOCTIME and TIMEX3 elements, and computes DocTimeRel for each EVENT identified by the CRF. Third, another CRF system computes DocTimeRel for each...

Many object-oriented information systems share an architectural style that emphasizes flexibility and run-time configurability. Business rules are stored in a database instead of in code. The object model that the user cares about is part of the database, and the object model of the code is just an interpreter of the users’ object model. We call these systems “Adaptive Object-Models”, because t...

sequence submissions becoming standard fare. Some scientists, however, are doing a messy job of their GenBank submission because they are in a hurry to get a GenBank accession number so that they can publish their sequence data in an academic journal (proof of GenBank submission is required by most publishers). The irony is that the GenBank entry for a given nucleotide sequence is often more im...

there is no doubt in the existence of the right to imprisonment in the marriage (nikāḥ) for the wife. that is to say, the wife is entitled to refuse submission until receiving all her dowry in case it is urgent (mu‘ajjal). the question arises here as to what the extent of this right to imprisonment is. does it merely apply to specific submission or does it include general submission, as well? i...