New York University (NYU) participated in three tracks of the 2014 TAC-KBP evaluation: English Slot Filling, Cold Start and Entity Discovery and Linking. While this year is the first time and second time we participated in entity discovery and linking (EDL) and cold start respectively, we have been working on the slot filling task for several years. With additional development time this year, o...

Each of 2 monkeys typically earned their daily food ration by depositing tokens in one of two slots. Tokens deposited in one slot dropped into a bin where they were kept (token kept). Deposits to a second slot dropped into a bin where they could be obtained again (token returned). In Experiment 1, a fixed-ratio (FR) 5 schedule that provided two food pellets was associated with each slot. Both m...

OBJECTIVE To identify classifiers in images obtained with sagittal laser optical tomography (SLOT) that can be used to distinguish between joints affected and not affected by synovitis. METHODS 78 SLOT images of proximal interphalangeal joints II-IV from 13 patients with rheumatoid arthritis were compared with ultrasound (US) images and clinical examination (CE). SLOT images showing the spati...

This paper introduces an intelligent parking slot detection and tracking with ARM7LPC2148 microcontroller. The parking problem in big cities, especially the mega-cities, has become one of the key causes of the city traffic congestion. The Vacant Parking slot detection and tracking is considered to be an effective way to improve parking situation. The parking slot occupancy classification stage ...

Objective: To assess and evaluate the tip, torque, slot size & slot distortion of maxillary central incisor, maxillary lateral incisor & maxillary canine brackets from commercially available bracket systems (Agile Mini Brackets3M series, Mini seriesAmerican Orthodontics, Mini Gem seriesDento Smile, Fine Series Brackets Galaxy Orthodontics, Centrino Mini bracketsLibral trader, Orthox Organizers)...

Slot filling aims to extract the values (slot fillers) of specific attributes (slots types) for a given entity (query) from a largescale corpus. Slot filling remains very challenging over the past seven years. We propose a simple yet effective unsupervised approach to extract slot fillers based on the following two observations: (1) a trigger is usually a salient node relative to the query and ...

Objective: To identify classifiers in images obtained with sagittal laser optical tomography (SLOT) that can be used to distinguish between joints affected and not affected by synovitis. Methods: 78 SLOT images of proximal interphalangeal joints II–IV from 13 patients with rheumatoid arthritis were compared with ultrasound (US) images and clinical examination (CE). SLOT images showing the spati...

In this study, we introduce a new media access control (MAC) protocol that adaptively changes time division multiple access (TDMA) frame size and slot duration in order to upgrade performance of underwater sensor networks. Throughput of underwater sensor networks is very low compared to a radio frequency (RF) network; the reason is a very long propagation delay and a very low bit rate. To solve...

A generalized equivalent circuit model for waveguide transverse slots is proposed for the efficient analysis of waveguide transitions and waveguide slot antennas and slot-excited antennas. The transverse slots on the broad and end waveguide walls analyzed in this paper are decomposed into three structures: two apertures and an auxiliary waveguide section. The slot aperture in the host waveguide...

IEEE 802.11n standard has introduced the new schemes in MAC and HT-PHY layers to improve network throughput. The new schemes in MAC layer are A-MSDU, A-MPDU and Block ACK. In the HT-PHY layer there are MIMO transmission using up to 4 spatial streams, 40 MHz bandwidth channel and 400 ns guard interval. In this paper, we proposed an analytical model that can be used to estimates the throughput of...