The UC3M team has sent three runs for each Entity Linking task proposed in the Knowledge Base Population (KBP) track at TAC 2010. The skeleton system presented in 2009 has evolved in 2010 by incorporating some new tools, new algorithms for candidate retrieval and feature extraction, and two new stages that use regression based classifiers for candidate filtering. These improvements have allowed...

In this paper we present angular brushing for parallel coordinates (PC) as a new approach to highlighting rational data-properties, i.e., features which – in a non-separable way – depend on two data dimensions. We also demonstrate smooth brushing as an intuitive tool for specifying nonbinary degree-of-interest functions (for focus+context visualization). We also briefly describe our implementat...

The complex structure of longitudinal data with associated discrete covariates requires developing visual methods for a better understanding of underlying structures. In this paper, a simple and flexible method, linked brushing, was studied for such datasets to detect the mean structure. Methods were applied to a random dataset from The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), which was first use...

In this paper, we report on the participation of ADEL, an adaptive entity recognition and linking framework, to the OKE 2017 challenge. In particular, we propose an hybrid approach that combines various extraction methods to improve the recognition level and an efficient knowledge base indexing process to increase the efficiency of the linking step. We detail how we deal with finegrained entity...

It has been hypothesized that neural activities in the primary visual cortex (V1) represent a saliency map of the visual field to exogenously guide attention. This hypothesis has so far provided only qualitative predictions and their confirmations. We report this hypothesis' first quantitative prediction, derived without free parameters, and its confirmation by human behavioral data. The hypoth...

We consider a random sequence of calls between nodes in a complete network with link capacities. Each call first tries the direct link. If that link is saturated, then the ‘first-fit dynamic alternative routing algorithm’ sequentially selects up to d random two-link alternative routes, and assigns the call to the first route with spare capacity on each link, if there is such a route. The ‘balan...

2012 the “Survey on HumanEnvironment Interaction” was launched using SurveyMonkey. The survey aimed to explore how humans view their relationship to the natural world as well as how demographics influence beliefs about environmental issues. In September, with 383 respondents, the survey was closed for analysis. Over 90% of respondents agreed that there is a direct link between human health and ...

A central behavioral assumption of economic theory is that income is fungible. Yet, building on the pioneering work by Thaler (1999) recent work by behavioural economists highlights that people code income in different mental accounts, creating a direct link between spending behaviour and income sources, thereby violating the fungibility assumption. This paper examines whether the marginal prop...

Reproducibility is a fundamental requirement of scientific research. In this paper, we examine the repeatability, reproducibility, and generalizability of TAGME, one of the most popular entity linking systems. By comparing results obtained from its public API with (re)implementations from scratch, we obtain the following findings. The results reported in the TAGME paper cannot be repeated due t...

This year the CUNY-BLENDER team participated in the English Entity Linking and Slot Filling Validation tracks. for entity linking, we apply two new techniques, collaborative clustering and query reformulation. For answer validation, we use a logistic regression model trained on within-system and crosssystem features to re-rank the merged answer sets generated by individual systems. In this pape...