I begin by introducing the standoff between the transculturalist aim of moving beyond cultural inheritances, and the worry that this project is itself a product of cultural inheritances. I argue that this is rooted in concerns about the meaning of life, and in particular, the prospect of nihilism. I then distinguish two diametrically opposed humanistic responses to nihilism, post-Nietzschean re...

We have developed a class of aperture coding schemes for Remote Raman Spectrometers (RRS) that remove the traditional trade-off between throughput and spectral resolution. As a result, the size of the remote interrogation region can be driven by operational, rather than optical considerations. In this paper we present the design of our coded-aperture standoff spectroscopy system as well as expe...

Laser Vibrometry is an exciting new sensor technology that promises to improve automatic target recognition (ATR) performance. Sensors such as Micro-Laser Interferometer Doppler (MLID) measure minute vibrations on the surface of an object from a large standoff distance. In this paper, we demonstrate a baseline ATR algorithm designed for vibrometry data that can reliably recognize military vehic...

Introduction. Characterization of useable planetary materials will require high sampling throughput. Although remote observations from orbiting spacecraft provide spatially wide coverage, they do not, by themselves, provide sufficient information for materials utilization purposes. On the other hand, active rover-based in-situ analyses can provide detailed geological information but can be very...

With the rapid growth of electronically available scientific literature, text mining is attracting increasing attention. While numerous algorithms, tools, and systems have been developed for extracting information from text, little effort has been focused on how to mark up the information. We present the design of a standoff, object-oriented markup language (called SOOML), which is simple, expr...

The VENEX corpus is a corpus of Italian annotated with information about anaphora and deixis, created in a joint project between the Università di Venezia and the University of Essex. The corpus includes both texts (articles from a financial newspaper) and dialogues (an Italian version of the MapTask corpus). The annotation scheme is an almost complete implementation of the scheme proposed in M...

Our long term goal is to provide the Navy with a robust automated target cueing and identification capability for use with high resolution underwater imaging sensors such as Raytheon’s laser line scan system. These electro-optical sensors operate at standoff ranges to survey large areas of the underwater environment in search of naval targets of interest and are currently being incorporated int...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has developed an imaging sensor for remote detection of natural gas (methane) leaks. The sensor is comprised of an IR focal plane array-based camera which views the far field through a rapidly tunable FabryPerot interferometer. The interferometer functions as a wavelength-variable bandpass filter which selects the wavelength illuminating the focal plane array. The s...

J. Polk, S. Smrekar, S. M. Clegg, R. C. Wiens, M. D. Dyar, A. Treiman. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena CA, 91109, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663 MS J565, Los Alamos, NM 87545, sc...

The LUNA corpus is a multi-lingual, multidomain spoken dialogue corpus currently under development that will be used to develop a robust natural spoken language understanding toolkit for multilingual dialogue services. The LUNA corpus will be annotated at multiple levels to include annotations of syntactic, semantic, and discourse information; specialized annotation tools will be used for the a...