This paper presents a corpus of annotated motion events and their event structure. We consider motion events triggered by a set of motion evoking words and contemplate both literal and figurative interpretations of them. Figurative motion events are extracted into the same event structure but are marked as figurative in the corpus. To represent the event structure of motion, we use the FrameNet...

Manuscript received September 11, 2011 * Corresponding author; E-mail: [email protected] Abstract— The diffraction fields and the shadow of standing tree diffraction are solved by using polygons to approximately take the place and approximation as approximate substitutes of for the circle. The algorithm model of ray path tracing is computed by tracing the ray path on standing tree. Considering el...

In this paper 2D and 3D ray-tracing-predictions based on UTD are compared to measurements in urban microcellular environments characterized by an irregular mixture of building heights due to the presence of relatively high rise buildings. It is shown that the 2D ray-tracing underestimates the measurement in area far from the transmitter. The theoretical study and the preliminary comparisons wit...

[Acknowledgment] This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (CAREER SES 0552089), UTD Provost’s Distinguished Professorship, Brain Korea 21 Project, and Ohio State University CIBER and Center for East Asian Studies. Earlier versions were presented at the 8th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets (Kaohsiung, 1999), Conference on ...

The Choice of Plausible Alternatives (COPA) task in SemEval-2012 presents a series of forced-choice questions wherein each question provides a premise and two viable cause or effect scenarios. The correct answer is the cause or effect that is the most plausible. This paper describes the COPACETIC system developed by the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) for this task. We approach this task by...

Nowadays the use of hyperspectral imagery specifically automatic target detection algorithms for these images is a relatively exciting area of research. An important challenge of hyperspectral target detection is to detect small targets without any prior knowledge, particularly when the interested targets are insignificant with low probabilities of occurrence. The specific characteristic of ano...

A hybrid numerical model is presented for solving long range electromagnetic wave propagation problems involving objects on or above the ground surface by hybridizing two-way split-step parabolic equation (2W-SSPE) method with of moments (MoM). The advantages proposed are twofold: (i) It reduces staircasing error in irregular terrain modeling, which usually occurs when standard SSPE used alone....

In a recent article Broy [Bro06] describes grand challenges facing software engineers. Implied in the grand challenges is the need for test-beds and benchmark applications that facilitate rigorous experimental validations. Our goal is to address this need in real-time and embedded software systems. In this research, we request funding to develop such infrastructure that will enable researchers ...

Most of the research attention to schools has focused on the level of student achievement with much less attention given to the distribution of results. Policy makers on the other hand place a disproportionate amount of attention on achievement results for minorities and disadvantaged students. This paper considers a range of school factors that potentially have differential effects on groups i...