New York University submitted two runs this year: a KBP Slot Filling run and a Cold Start run. The Slot Filling run used the same system as last year (Min et al. 2012), with only the minimal changes needed to address the revised specifications. These included changes in the provenance information and collapsing employee_of and member_of slots. We included the confidence estimation step (Li and ...

We study the asymptotic behaviour of an ecological model in presence a time dependent birth rate.