Different types •Date: On May 22, 1995, Farkas was ... •Time: ... in Brownsville around 7:15 p.m. •Duration: He spent six days abroad ... •Set: ... for liver transplants each year ... Different occurrences in documents • explicit easy to normalize • implicit knowledge is needed • relative reference time is needed (& additional information) Annotation scheme •TimeML: ISO standard for temporal an...

Last November, I spent several days in the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, in banks’ headquarters in the City and in the pale wood and glass of a hedge fund’s St James’s office trying to understand the credit crisis that had erupted over the previous four months. I became intrigued by an oddity that I came to think of as the end-of-theworld trade. The trade is the purchase of insurance against wha...

there are no adequate data that evaluate the safety and effectiveness of lowering triglyceride levels in infants. the authors report a neonate affected by familial hyperchylomicronemia, while being investigated for sepsis the serum sample obtained for blood counts was discovered to be lipaemic and the case was subsequently investigated for dyslipidemia. based on this very abnormal lipid profile...

the major problem of wind turbines is the great variability of wind power production. the dynamic change of the wind speed returns the quantity of the power injected to networks. therefore, wind–thermal generation scheduling problem plays a key role to implement clean power producers in a competitive environment. in deregulated power systems, the scheduling problem has various objectives than i...