c 1996 S. L. Minneman and S. W. Smoliar ECAI 96 Workshop. Edited by G.Vouros, W.Klas, T.Sellis, M.Vazirgiannis An approach to semantics based on traditional paradigms of knowledge representation (e.g., developing reductionist models of video document genres), while not entirely o the mark, may be signi cantly misdirected. Understanding the semantics of video and multimedia must begin with under...

Abstract This article assesses our much-expanded view of the texts produced by early modern women in Ireland, surveying what is available to present-day researchers and considering emerging methodologies for analysis female voices. The range genres with which we now know engaged owes much feminist literary historians’ capacious approach defining literature, expanding beyond traditionally elite ...

Games have always been of interest to all age groups. With the advancement in technology and increase in number of users of personal computers, increased number of games is introduced in market. This is resulting in efforts, both for the developers in writing scripts for games and for the end users to select a game which is more entertaining. In this work we present a solution to both the issue...

Arabic script writing is typically underspecified for short vowels and other mark up, referred to as diacritics. Apart from the lexical ambiguity found in words, similar to that exhibited in other languages, the lack of diacritics in written Arabic script adds another layer of ambiguity which is an artifact of the orthography. Diacritization of written text has a significant impact on Arabic NL...

Arnau de Vilanova, one of the most important physicians of the Latin Middle Ages, was familiar with the vast majority of Aristotle's works that had been translated into Latin. He used a wide range of them, such as the Organon--the introductory books on logic - and the natural philosophical books, which cover a different branches of knowledge. He used Aristotle as an authority, trying to reconci...

Adriane Fugh-Berman examines documents unsealed in recent litigation to investigate how pharmaceutical companies promoted hormone therapy drugs, including the use of medical writing companies to produce ghostwritten manuscripts and place them into medical journals.

Methods: First, we constructed a questionnaire based on the descriptors collected from various sources in order to elicit university teachers’ views on the importance of these descriptors. A revised version was produced based on the feedback from the initial questionnaire survey. In order to further investigate what level or levels these remaining descriptors would fall into, 35 university teac...

Abstract There exists no sentence boundary in most classical Chinese literature texts. Since it is difficult to read of this kind, experts or linguistics would segment the manually. This article explores effectiveness segmentation method so as provide a reference for punctuation. On basis machine learning methods, we chose three components learning, namely models, tagging schemes, and features,...

Optimally, a translated text should preserve information while maintaining the writing style of the original. When this is not possible, as is often the case with figurative speech, a common practice is to simplify and make explicit the implications. However, in our investigations of translations from English to another language, English-to-Chinese texts were often found to include idiomatic ex...

We present a preliminary study of several parser adaptation techniques evaluated on the GENIA corpus of MEDLINE abstracts [1, 2]. We begin by observing that the Penn Treebank (PTB) is lexically impoverished when measured on various genres of scientific and technical writing, and that this significantly impacts parse accuracy. To resolve this without requiring in-domain treebank data, we show ho...