negative-maker affixes are those linguistic elements that are widely used in word making. the function and the type of each of these affixes are unique and different from others. the russian affix ??-, for example, in its combination with pronouns and adverbs, makes non-referential sentences that use the infinitive form of the verb, while the affix ??- in its combination with pronouns and adver...

Due to the explosive growth of the world-wide web, automatictext summarization has become an essential tool for web users. In this paperwe present a novel approach for creating text summaries. Using fuzzy logicand word-net, our model extracts the most relevant sentences from an originaldocument. The approach utilizes fuzzy measures and inference on theextracted textual information from the docu...

stylistics is one of the main trends that try to look for beauties in the text. it interested in studying literary texts based on an objective approach for analyzing texts to find the beauties. we can get through that by analyzing the language and rhetorical phenomena in the text in terms of the three levels, vocal, synthetic, and indicative. style is one rhetorical face in the book nahjo al-ba...

Comparative penologists have described neoliberal and social democratic jurisdictions as though they exist at opposite ends of a continuum inclusion exclusion, states are inactive invasive. This article, which is based on more than 129 interviews with men convicted sex offenses in England & Wales Norway, uses Cohen's work McNeill's typology rehabilitative forms to complicate this simplistic bin...

Means-ends analysis is a seemingly well understood search technique, which can be described, using planning terminology, as: keep adding actions that are feasible and achieve pieces of the goal. Unfortunately, it is often the case that no action is both feasible and relevant in this sense. The traditional answer is to make sabgoals out of the preconditions of relevant but infeasible actions. Th...

This paper describes our English Speech-to-Text (STT) system for the 2011 IWSLT ASR track. The system consists of 2 subsystems with different front-ends—one MVDR based, one MFCC based—which are combined using confusion network combination to provide a base for a second pass speaker adapted MVDR system. We demonstrate that this set-up produces competitive results on the IWSLT 2010 dev and test s...

In this paper, we review Icarus, a cognitive architecture that utilizes hierarchical skills and concepts for reactive execution in physical environments. In addition, we present two extensions to the framework. The first involves the incorporation of means-ends analysis, which lets the system compose known skills to solve novel problems. The second involves the storage of new skills that are ba...

This paper employs Data Envelopment Analysis to measure for the first time the performance of Greek domestic equity mutual funds over four different one-year horizons and for the whole four-year period. In particular, the model used examines whether fund managers employ inputs (i.e. assets, loads, and risk) efficiently to produce output (returns). The results demonstrate that the efficient fund...