As we explained in the brief overview of network-based models of transmission of infectious diseases at this web site1, for most populations of hosts the actual contact network is not known, and we want to model it as a random graph. There are various constructions of such random graphs. They give us networks that usually share some, but not all properties of real contact networks. The most bas...

This paper describes auxiliary verb constructions in European Portuguese in view of their correct parsing in a fully integrated NLP chain. The paper provides data on these constructions over a large-sized corpus and evaluates the parsing system performance.

Pipes are widely used in many industrial and mechanical applications and devices. Although there are many different constructions according to the specific application and device, these can show helical pattern, such as spiral pipes, wire-reinforced pipes/shells, spring-suspension, and so on. Theoretical modelling of wave propagation provides a prediction about the dynamic behavior, and it is f...

Three constructions for binary lattices with strong pseudorandom properties are given. These constructions are the two dimensional extensions and modifications of three of the most important one dimensional constructions. The upper estimates for the pseudorandom measures of the binary lattices constructed are based on the principle that character sums in two variables can be estimated by fixing...

In this paper, we show how frames can be employed in the analysis 5 of genitive constructions. We model the main approaches in the discussion about 6 genitive constructions, i.e. the argument-only approach, the modifier-only approach 7 and the split approach. Of these three, the split approach is modeled most naturally 8 in frames. Thus, if frames are considered a cognitively adequate represent...

This work is an example of the interplay between computergenerated art work by a computer scientist and traditional paintings on canvas by an artist. We show that computer-generated swarm constructions can obtain great expressiveness and exhibit liveliness, rhythm, movement, tension, contrasts, organic looks, and rigid forms. These characteristics lend themselves to complement traditional paint...

Structure mapping theory is a computational model of analogy that has recently been used to learn FrameNet constructions from a small corpus of annotated text. This paper proposes an approach that uses constructions learned in this way to bootstrap the performance of an existing natural language understanding system with a more traditional feature-based chart parser, EA NLU. We examine the bene...

In a local derivational (phase-based) approach to syntax, instances of resumption in German (longdistance) relativization constructions with an empty operator and a complementizer wo (‘where’) must be analyzed in terms of movement. Against this background, these constructions raise three problems for syntactic analysis: (i) a locality (backtracking) problem (‘How can the information that a resu...