We present in this paper our three system submissions for the POS tagging subtask of the Empirist Shared Task: Our baseline system UdS-retrain extends a standard training dataset with in-domain training data; UdSdistributional and UdS-surface add two different ways of handling OOV words on top of the baseline system by using either distributional information or a combination of surface similari...

This study is an empirical analysis of the Internet business models used by United States firms that filed for initial public sale of securities from 1996 thru 2001. Analysis included identification of the business modes deployed for generating revenue from the Internet, extension of Eisenmann’s [2002] classifications of Internet business models and the matching of firms to the extended classif...

Streaming music services have exploded in popularity in the past few years, variously raising optimism and concern about their impacts on recorded music revenue. Even if streaming displace sales, it may still raise overall revenue if the streaming payment is large enough in relation to the extent of sales displacement. We make use of the growth streaming during the years 2013-2015 to measure th...

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, GOVERNANCE, AND STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION: AN INTRODUCTION The ecosystem services approach has gained popularity, and novel incentive-based ecosystem conservation strategies are increasingly being used. This calls for the reassessment and transformation of conceptual-theoretical, natural resource management, and governance approaches to conservation. In the past, conservatio...

Information commerce (i-commerce) is a special variant of e-commerce in which the goods being offered for sale are digital and thus amenable to processing by computers. Trading of digital goods opens up new business opportunities and also poses interesting software engineering challenges. We present a general model of information commerce that extends the traditional customer-vendor model with ...

The Internet is home to an ever increasing array of goods and services available to the general consumer. These products are often discovered through search engines whose focus is on document retrieval rather than product procurement. The demand for details of specific products as opposed to just documents containing such information has resulted in an influx of product collection databases, de...

Between 1935 and 1985, Irish law criminalized the sale and importation of condoms. Activists established illegal markets to challenge the law and alleviate its social consequences. They distributed condoms through postal services, shops, stalls, clinics, and machines. Though they largely operated in the open, their activities attracted little direct punishment from the state, and they were able...

The reimbursement policies of Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers can have a major impact on the ability of oncologists to deliver care to their patients. This article explores current issues of particular interest to oncologists, including coverage of off-label drug uses, reimbursement for drugs used in clinical trials and for costs of care for patients in trials, the effect of DRGs on th...

The Web has become a ubiquitous environment for application delivery. The originally intended idea, as a distributed system for knowledgeinterchange, has given way to organizations offering their products and services using the Web as a global point of sale. The centralized delivery-mechanism enables the construction of E-Commerce applications personalized for each user by using behavior analys...

this research develops a two-level model based on hypotheses, which concern relationships among role ambiguity, role conflict, job involvement and salesperson performance at individual level and collective sale self efficacy, customer orientation and competitive climate at sale unit level in iranian food industry. data was drawn from 482 sales people in 30 companies , using a 51-item self-repor...