A distinguishing feature of many multiword expressions (MWEs) is their semantic non-compositionality. Determining the semantic compositionality of MWEs is important for many natural language processing tasks. We address the task of modeling semantic compositionality of Croatian MWEs. We adopt a composition-based approach within the distributional semantics framework. We build and evaluate model...

We define the notion of a "framed function" on a compact smooth manifold N and we show that the space of all framed functions on N is (dim N I)-connected. A framed function on N is essentially a smooth function N --> R with only Morse and birth-death singularities together with certain additional structure. Introduction. The purpose of this paper is to prove that the space of framed functions o...

Article history: Received 27 January 2008 Revised 23 July 2008 Accepted 5 August 2008 Available online 20 September 2008

For a fixed isotopy type K of unframed knots in S there are infinitely many isotopy classes of framed knots that correspond to K when we forget the framing. We show that the same fact is true for all the isotopy types of unframed knots in a closed oriented 3-manifold M , provided that M 6= (S × S)#M . On the other hand for any M = (S × S)#M ′ we construct examples of isotopy classes of unframed...

The application of Heuristic Search Methods for the earthquake resistant design of structural frames is discussed. The Tabu Search method was selected for application to structural weight optimization of steel moment frame structures. A computer program was developed that uses Tabu Search for weight minimization of two-dimensional framed structures. Written in the FORTRAN computer language, the...

In this paper we investigate the structure of spatial expressions in Saisiyat based in part on corpus data. Our corpus material includes both narratives and conversations that together run for approximately 100 minutes. First, the corpus was searched for syntactic patterns of spatial expressions. The structure of dynamic motion expressions is then examined with regard to types and tokens of mot...

Despite the large body of i* research, there has been comparatively little work on how goal-modelling techniques can help identify usability concerns. Recent work has considered how goal models might better integrate with User-Centered Design. This paper takes an alternative perspective by examining how work in User-Centered Design, specifically Persona Cases, can be re-framed as goal models. W...

How matters are framed by the language we use is important to the messages communicated, as it affects how we think about and act on those messages.6 How we use words such as ‘sustainable’ in framing humanity’s current situation in relation to the environment is important. ‘Sustainability’ was defined by Brundtland in terms of sustainable development as “the management of environmental resource...

I present a new definition of verisimilitude, framed in terms of causes. Roughly speaking, according to it a scientific model is approximately true if it captures accurately the strengths of the causes present in any given situation. Against much of the literature, I argue that any satisfactory account of verisimilitude must inevitably restrict its judgments to context-specific models rather th...

The results of an asset market experiment, in which 64 subjects trade two assets on eight markets in a computerized continuous double auction, indicate that (i) objectively irrelevant information influences trading behavior. Moreover, positively and negatively framed information leads to a particular trading pattern. However (ii), a probability variation of the framed information has no influen...