This paper studies the application of the Web Selectors word sense disambiguation system on a specific domain. The system was primarily applied without any domain tuning, but the incorporation of domain predominant sense information was explored. Results indicated that the system performs relatively the same with domain predominant sense information as without, scoring well above a random basel...

Translating text from diverse sources poses a challenge to current machine translation systems which are rarely adapted to structure beyond corpus level. We explore topic adaptation on a diverse data set and present a new bilingual variant of Latent Dirichlet Allocation to compute topic-adapted, probabilistic phrase translation features. We dynamically infer document-specific translation probab...

The existing diversity of languages for special purposes leads to their their commonly highly complex and thoroughly differentiated terminologies. Getting an overview has become almost impossible without appropriate terminology management systems. Existing terminology management systems cannot effectively accommodate regular changes, updates of or additions to multilingual terminologies. While ...

Although coordination deficiencies in production planning and control (PPC) systems, which are a subset of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, still exist and even increase with progressing intra-organizational cooperation, workflow management systems (WfMS) could not yet be successfully established in PPC processes. This can be attributed to the complex structures of PPC tasks and the ...

BACKGROUND The Toyota Production System (TPS), based on industrial engineering principles and operational innovations, is used to achieve waste reduction and efficiency while increasing product quality. Several key tools and principles, adapted to health care, have proved effective in improving hospital operations. TOOLS Value Stream Maps (VSMs), which represent the key people, material, and ...

The νμ → ντ and νμ → νs solutions to the atmospheric neutrino problem are compared with SuperKamiokande data. The differences between these solutions due to matter effects in the Earth are calculated for the ratio of μ-like to e-like events and for up-down flux asymmetries. These quantities are chosen because they are relatively insensitive to theoretical uncertainties in the overall neutrino f...

We build a personalized conflict resolution agent that applies reasoning about mental attributes to processing of scenarios of multiagent interactions. Our approach is deployed in the domain of complaint analysis: rather advanced user interface and machine learning are required to advise a customer on how to prepare a valid complaint and to assist in its formal structured representation. We dem...

This paper proposes a principled approach to the definition of realworld semantics for declarative domain-specific languages. The approach is based on: (i) the explicit representation of the admissible states of the world through a reference domain ontology (which serves as semantic foundation for the domain-specific language), (ii) a representation of the valid expressions of a domain-specific...

Despite the increasing number of Technology Enhanced Learning platforms (eg. MOODLE) and their wide spreading, the operationalization of learning scenarios is still a problem for teachers. We aim to facilitate their implementation on existent platforms. We propose an approach based on the formalization of the implicit instructional design domain language embedded by these Learning Management Sy...

Past research shows that spreadsheet models are prone to such a high frequency of errors and data security implications that the risk management of spreadsheet development and spreadsheet use is of great importance to both industry and academia. The underlying rationale for this paper is that spreadsheet training courses should specifically address risk management in the development process bot...