From the ‡Center of Experimental Medicine, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, c/o Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), and the §European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Outstation Hamburg at DESY, 22603 Hamburg, Germany, the ¶Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, 20359 Hamburg, Germany, the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Bulgar...

In this paper we present the new version (4th edition) of the Natural Language Software Registry (NLSR), an initiative of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hosted at DFKI in Saarbrücken. We give a brief overview of the history of this repository for Natural Language Processing (NLP) software, list some related works and go into the details of the design and the implementation ...

This report describes the work done by the QA group of the Language Technology Lab at DFKI for the 2005 edition of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). We describe the extensions made to our 2004 QA@CLEF German/English QA–system, especially the question–type driven selection of answer strategies. Furthermore, details concerning the processing of definition and temporal questions are desc...

A great number of organic and inorganic substances pollute the water of the Rhine. The greatest concentration is formed by the chlorides, as their quantity exceeds that of the suiphates by about 50 per cent. At the German—Dutch frontier, the mean annual value of the chloride charge of the river amounts to approximately 350 kg/s C1. About 40 per cent, or 130 kg/s, of this quantity are residual s...

Business-Intelligence-Systeme stellen durch ihre Unterstützung bei der Entscheidungsfindung für Unternehmen eine wichtige Rolle dar. Mit einer stetig dynamischeren Unternehmensumwelt geht daher die Anforderung nach der agilen Entwicklung dieser Systeme einher, so dass in der BI-Domäne zunehmend erfolgreich agile Methoden und Vorgehensmodelle eingesetzt werden. Die Weiterentwicklung und Anpassun...

Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die laufenden Arbeiten im Projekt „Deutsches Referenzkorpus zur internetbasierten Kommunikation“ (DeRiK), in dem ein Korpus zur Sprachverwendung in der deutschsprachigen internetbasierten Kommunikation aufgebaut wird. Das Korpus ist als eine Zusatzkomponente zu den Korpora im BBAW-Projekt „Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache“ (DWDS, http://www.dwd...

A newly introduced sulphydryl compound, dithiothreitol (DTT), is evaluated for its optimal conditions of inactivation of IgM antibodies. The maximal effects of DTT reagent are observed when its final concentrations are between 00025 M and 0005 M, pH between 7 0 and 8O0, and incubation at 370C. Concentrations over 0 01 M, pH values greater than 8-0, and an incubation temperature over 40'C result...

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. 1 A multi-level metadata approach for a Public Sector Information data infrastructure Nikos Houssos , Brigitte Jörg , Brian Matthews a euroCRIS; b National Documentation Centre / National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece; c German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany; d Science and Tech...

Case report. A 14-year-old schoolboy was bitten by an Alsatian dog, sustaining a puncture wound over the dorsal surface ofthe terminal interphalangealjoint of the right little finger. Primary closure of the wound was performed without wound toilet and no antibiotics were given. One week later the wound was infected and flucloxacillin was prescribed. He continued to have considerable pain, swell...

This paper investigates the need for applying English prosody when synthesising English portions of mixed English/German texts using a German-based polyglot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system. The polyglot system is based on a monolingual German TTS system, which uses a phone mapping from English to German to synthesise English texts. Two systems with varying degrees of assimilation to Engli...