This paper describes SEW-EMBED, our language-independent approach to multilingual and cross-lingual semantic word similarity as part of the SemEval-2017 Task 2. We leverage the Wikipediabased concept representations developed by Raganato et al. (2016), and propose an embedded augmentation of their explicit high-dimensional vectors, which we obtain by plugging in an arbitrary word (or sense) emb...

Although the CIS countries are connected together by the legacy of breaking away from the Soviet Union, they have had a distinctive transition course and are rather diverse in terms of the population ageing challenges and policy responses in place. The commonality is that a comprehensive national strategy on ageing is lacking, and many of necessary reforms were put aside owing to political unce...

In 1973, Deuber published his famous proof of Rado’s conjecture regarding partition regular sets. In his proof, he invented structures called (m, p, c)-sets and gave a partition theorem for them based on repeated applications of van der Waerden’s theorem on arithmetic progressions. In this paper, we give the complete proof of Deuber’s, however with the more recent parameter set proof of his par...

This study provided data by a simple method of acquiring information related to ambulance response time (ART) and determined whether it met the international standards of ART. Additionally, this paper also compared the duration of ART at this hospital before and after the implementation of an Emergency Medical Dispatcher (EMD) program. The ART, which started when details like phone number of th...

background fear of falling (fof) is highly common in people with parkinson disease (pd). fear of frequent falling arises from risk factors in pd. objectives one of the most common tools used to measure fof in patients with pd is the survey of activities and fear of falling in the elderly (saffe), but no studies have been conducted on its reliability and validity in iran. the current study attem...

variations in lighting are a problem for visual systems. in the current research, a new thresholding method using a 3d euclidian elliptical surface was defined and applied for plant detection purposes. the results showed that this method had lower type i error, type ii error, total error and mean square error compared with those of conventional segmentation methods. the method was evaluated for...

Educators often employ various training techniques to reduce raters’ subjectivity. Negotiation is a technique which can assist novice raters to co-construct a shared understanding of the writing assessment when rating collaboratively. There is little research, however, on rating behaviors of novice raters while employing negotiation techniques and the effect of negotiation on their understandin...