We present the Vancouver Event and Relation System for Extraction (VERSE)1 as a competing system for three subtasks of the BioNLP Shared Task 2016. VERSE performs full event extraction including entity, relation and modification extraction using a feature-based approach. It achieved the highest F1-score in the Bacteria Biotope (BB3) event subtask and the third highest F1-score in the Seed Devel...

Al-Qur'an is the word of Allah SWT which contains various kinds rules, guidelines for human life that governs every aspect life, including child's personality. One surahs talk about children Surah Al-A'raf verses 31-33, In verse, gives an illustration to believers how dress, drink, and do evil deeds. Concerning this Ash-Shawi provides in-depth understanding eat drink permitted by Law. This disc...

Renewed interest in the collaborative form haikai no renga 誹諧の連歌 was an integral part of the mid-eighteenth century "Back to Bashō" movement, in which Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 (1716-1783) and his associates condemned the commercialized practices that characterized contemporary haikai and argued for a return to the ideals of Matsuo Bashō 松尾芭蕉 (1644-1694). After the death of Bashō, who had made ga 雅, or e...

viability of verse is interrelated to its multiple layer nature and legibility. being affected by western poetry and criticism in the middle of 20th century, this trend entered arabic contemporary verse into a new stage and made it as a field for activity of national and international myths. badr shakir al- siab was one of premier innovative arabic poets that he has highly benefitted from myste...

Jephthah the Gileadite, whose story is told in chapter eleven of the Book of Judges, is primarily known for his infamous vow (see now Marcus, 1986). Yet, Jephthah was also a successful general, an effective negotiator, and an astute diplomat. Notwithstanding these accomplishments, Jephthah early in his career was the victim of fraternal rivalry, and had to suffer the indignity of being driven o...

alexander sergeyevich griboyedov was a russian diplomat, playwright, and composer. he is recognized in russian literature as a dramatist and writer of a book, whose fame rests on the brilliant verse comedy woe from wit (the woes of wit), a satire on russian aristocratic society which continus to be one of the most often staged plays in russia. however, in iran he is known as the great russian a...

This essay considers some problems in philosophical approaches to poetry. Philosophers’ accounts of what poetry is are often ill informed. They tend to select, as essential, features that can also characterize prose works: conspicuous metaphoricity, imagination, fictionality, and so on. This essay considers instead a humbler term: verse. It argues that the constraints on language implied by com...

We study two adaptive, distributed optimal flow control algorithms for a virtual circuit flow control in a decentralized network. These algorithms are based on greedy heuristics. Each virtual circuit (or user) attempts to adjusts its message rate to achieve an ideal tradeoff point between high throughput and low delay. The first algorithm is the bottleneck flow control algorithm where each user...