This paper presents an alternative method to measuring word-word semantic relatedness in distributional semantics framework. The main idea is to represent target words as rankings of all co-occurring words in a text corpus, ordered by their tf – idf weight and use a metric between rankings (such as Jaro distance or Rank distance) to compute semantic relatedness. This method has several advantag...

A number of tricky problems in probability are discussed, having in common one or more infinite sequences of coin tosses, and a representation as a problem in dependent percolation. Three of these problems are of ‘Winkler’ type, that is, they are challenges for a clairvoyant demon.

A number of tricky problems in probability are discussed, having in common one or more infinite sequences of coin tosses, and a representation as a problem in dependent percolation. Three of these problems are of ‘Winkler’ type, that is, they ask about what can be achieved by a clairvoyant demon.

We compare variations of string comparators based on the Jaro-Winkler comparator and edit distance comparator. We apply the comparators to Census data to see which are better classifiers for matches and nonmatches, first by comparing their classification abilities using a ROC curve based analysis, then by considering a direct comparison between two candidate comparators in record linkage results.

side weirs are flow diversion devices that are widely used in irrigation, drainage and urban sewage systems. the present study focuses on the investigation of the effect of oblique side weirs on the discharge coefficient of a side weir under subcritical flow condition in rectangular channels. in this study 106 laboratory tests were conducted and the results were analyzed to find out the influen...

THE relation of the cerebral cortex to the activity of the sympathetic nervous system is not yet fully clear. The clinical and experimental observations, which have recently been reviewed by Kennard (1937), have been conflicting, and there have been few quantitative determinations of the effects of cortical stimulation and ablation upon the functions of the human sympathetic nervous system. Man...