This paper reports on the PAN 2014 evaluation lab which hosts three shared tasks on plagiarism detection, author identification, and author profiling. To improve the reproducibility of shared tasks in general, and PAN’s tasks in particular, the Webis group developed a new web service called TIRA, which facilitates software submissions. Unlike many other labs, PAN asks participants to submit run...

In this paper, the authors discuss their continuing work on a NSF TUES Phase 1 project in which they are exploring the feasibility and effectiveness of a scalable concept map as an organizational tool for a digital textbook. This tool, termed the Adaptive Map, is designed to promote students’ conceptual understanding by using an expert-generated concept map as an advance organizer. Because larg...

Introduction The recognition and segmentation of brain tissues is usually performed with manual or semiautomatic softwares. Semiautomatic softwares have an overall accuracy of about 9% compared with results obtained through manual segmentation, while fully automatic softwares actually provide inferior accuracies [1]. Moreover, we noticed that most of the commercial softwares do not offer built-...

Assistance is provided, in software development process, to Analysts in drawing UML diagrams and others by means of CASE tools. However, the task of the Stakeholder discourse understanding, a previous process in diagram drawing, is not supported by traditional CASE tools. In order to complete this task, Natural Language Processing has proposed a new kind of CASE tools, including both natural l...

The aim of this paper is to explore the degree to which semantic maps and conceptual spaces may comprehensively describe the cross-linguistic variation, by discussing the types of phenomena that may be consistently represented in a unified account. By analyzing the cross-linguistic coding of coordination relations, it will be argued that the degree to which every conceptual situation is explici...

Our study examines the knowledge sharing at a global polymer manufacturing company during its post merger integration period. Drawing on the two opposing views on knowledge in organizations—knowledge-as-object and knowledge-as-relationship—and growing recognition in the literature that deliberate and formalized knowledge sharing approaches may not exactly mirror what is going on in the organiza...

Activity Based Costing is an advanced accounting technique that widely discussed among cost controllers and managers. Through this study, attempt has been made to identify the recent trends in its evolution see further research prospects by doing analysis of numerous national international published researches related domain. By applying bibliographic technique, output extracted from Scopus dat...