The fundamental role of hypernymy in NLP has motivated the development of many methods for the automatic identification of this relation, most of which rely on word distribution. We investigate an extensive number of such unsupervised measures, using several distributional semantic models that differ by context type and feature weighting. We analyze the performance of the different methods base...

Cities have always been dependent on a variety of resources not only for their survival, but also to enable them to serve as places of innovation and civilisation. As those who in the past laid siege to cities knew all too well, one of the most important of these resources is food. Over the course of the last century cities have been supplied with their food from an increasingly wide range, ind...

probably have occurred since man first raised a weapon against another of his kind. Three such cases were described in the Smith Papyrus written between 2500 and 3000 B.C.,1 and Homer recorded in the Iliad results of various wounds of the chest inflicted during the siege of Troy.2 As early as about 1267, Theodoric at least suspected certain basic principles of pulmonary physiology and wrote con...

Using José Saramago's (1922-2010) novel "The history of the siege Lisbon" (1989) as a model and example, this article attempts to demonstrate function multiperspective narrative structures in metahistoriographical novels, making reference Vera Ansgar Nünning. It discusses problem supposed objectivity studies invisibility marginalised groups, who should no longer be exclusively focus description...

Throughout our history, the United States has come to the rescue of many countries under siege from wars, national disasters, and overt poverty. At this time in our history, it is our older adult community that is a facing a threat to its general welfare. A growing older adult population, increasing longevity with accompanying frailty, depleted governmental resources, and minimal Medicare/Medic...

It was the worst ever. Month-end was here and they had laid siege to us. Egad! Now I know how they felt at Dunkirk. We fell back to the machine room. They charged, lobbing jobs at us at horrific rates. “Who is it,” cried management? “It’s the ad hoc users,” we replied, “and a cohort of developers on our flank!” Management turned and ran. “O.K. men,” I rallied. “It’s up to us now. We’re going to...