The aim of Evalita Parsing Task is at defining and extending Italian state of the art parsing by encouraging the application of existing models and approaches. As in the Evalita’07 and ’09, the Task is organized around two tracks, i.e. Dependency Parsing and Constituency Parsing. In this paper, we describe only the Dependency Parsing track by presenting the data sets for development and testing...

This Comment argues that a ban on information regarding the availability of abortion in other Member States violates the Treaty by obstructing the free movement of services. Part I of this Comment examines the provision in Community law for the free movement of services and tracks the development of laws regulating abortion in Ireland and the Community. Part II discusses Society for the Protect...

A common analogy is to compare regionalization to a train. In the classic tradition, you first decide where you want to go and the best way to get there, given available resources and technology. Second, you design the train to fit with the job that lies ahead. Third, you build the train along with the tracks and then get it moving. The other provinces have all built trains and are moving them ...

Using the Hipparcos data, absolute magnitudes and thus the evolutionary status for the group of λBootis stars were derived. The origin of this small group of non-magnetic, chemically peculiar stars, still remains a matter of debate. Using new evolutionary tracks, an age determination could be provided to distinguish between the two competing theories the diffusion/mass-loss and the accretion. T...

The Census of Marine Life aids practical work of the Convention on Biological Diversity, discovers and tracks ocean biodiversity, and supports marine environmental planning.

We argue that quality issues and didactical concerns of MOOCs may be overcome by relying on small Open Educational Resources, joining them into concise courses by gluing them together along predefined learning pathways with proper semantic annotations. This new approach to adaptive learning does not attempt to model the learner, but rather concentrates on the learning process and established mo...

In this work, we study the effectiveness of a method called Spoken Tutorial, which is a candidate technique for self-learning. The performance of college students who self-learned Java through the Spoken Tutorial method is found to be better than that of conventional learners. Although the method evaluated in this work helps both genders, females seem to benefit more through self-learning works...

BACKGROUND Transition from comprehensive school to later educational tracks is challenging for many adolescents. The present three-wave longitudinal study conducted in Finland considers this issue from the perspective of school burnout. AIMS The study investigated the extent to which school-related burnout (exhaustion, cynicism, and feelings of inadequacy) changes during the transition from c...

Researchers have extensively chronicled the trends and challenges in higher education (Altbach et al. 2009). MOOCs appear to be as much about the collective grasping of universities’ leaders to bring higher education into the digital age as they are about a particular method of teaching. In this chapter, I won’t spend time commenting on the role of MOOCs in educational transformation or even wh...

A fast second level trigger has been developed for the ARGUS experiment which recognizes tracks originating from the interaction region. The processor compares the hits in the ARGUS Micro Vertex Drift Chamber to 245760 masks stored in random access memories. The masks which are fully deened in three dimensions are able to reject tracks originating in the wall of the narrow beampipe of 10.5 mm r...