This paper utilizes Yamcha, a SVM tool designed by Taku Kudo, to train an NP-chunking model for Chinese. In addition to IOB and two words surrounding the focused word, we experimented on new features and exploited unlabeled data from web pages to enhance the previous model. Our experiments with supervised learning indicate that our chosen feature sets outperform those reported in previous studi...

We present an efficient framework to estimate the rule probabilities for a hierarchical phrasebased statistical machine translation system from parallel data. In previous work, this was done with bilingual parsing. We use a more efficient approach splitting the bilingual parsing into two stages, which allows us to train a hierarchical translation model on larger tasks. Furthermore, we apply lea...

Monique Deveaux’s Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-led Social Movements makes a significant contribution to contemporary capability theories by challenging their individualism. Mainline versions of the Capabilities Approach (CA), including those developed Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen, Ingrid Robeyns, insist on methodological normative And with good reason: communitarianism most often reinscribes p...

This open access book discusses service design capabilities in innovation processes, and enables practitioners researchers to better understand the operational aspects of processes. It also a critical reflection on as multifaceted discipline.

ECAs ought to be entities endowed with dialogic and expressive capabilities. They are used in interactive systems in which they can communicate with users. Being involved in a communicative process implies to perceive signs displayed by the other interactants and to emit signs. ECAs ought to have qualities over two main computational domains: perception and generation. We consider another domai...