Among Japanese film director Kurosawa Akira’s three Shakespeare films, Throne of Blood (1957), Ran (1985), and The Bad Sleep Well (1960), the latter has been relatively ignored in Anglophone criticism. This article investigates reception argues favor its re-appraisal as a Hamlet. On reception, it examines explanations for neglect: modern setting, deconstructive adaptation, cinematic quality. Co...

Recently, Roos proposed a full-Newton step infeasible interiorpoint method (IIPM) for solving linear optimization (LO) problems. Later on, more variants of this algorithm were published. However, each main step of these methods is composed of one feasibility step and several centering steps. The purpose of this paper is to prove that by using a new search direction it is enough to take only one...

In this article we discuss several metrics of coherence defined using centering theory and investigate the usefulness of such metrics for information ordering in automatic text generation. We estimate empirically which is the most promising metric and how useful this metric is using a general methodology applied on several corpora. Our main result is that the simplest metric (which relies exclu...

This paper deals with the retrieval of document images especially applied to the digitized old books. In these old books our system allows the retrieval of graphical parts and especially the drop caps. The aim of our system is to process large image databases. For that purpose, we have developed a fast approach based on a Run Length Encoding (RLE) of images. We use this last one in a image comp...

introduction: rotary nickel-titanium (niti) instruments are thought to allow shaping of narrow, curved root canals more efficiently and more effectively than stainless steel hand instruments. however, the continued search for even more effective and safer instruments has resulted in new rotary systems being introduced on a regular basis. the aim of this study was to compare shaping parameters o...

introduction: the aim of this study was to compare centering ability and dentin removal of three rotary systems in curved root canals of extracted teeth. materials and methods: sixty root canals of mandibular first molars with curvatures ranging between 25-35 o were divided into three groups of 20 teeth each. based on pre-instrumentation radiographs that assessed the angle and the radius of can...

Computational approaches to reference resolution, like Centering Theory, are best at resolving referring expressions which denote familiar referents. We demonstrate how, by taking a proof-theoretic approach to reference resolution within a Centering-type framework, we are able to make sense of referring expressions for unfamiliar referents. These include, in addition to bridging descriptions, d...

Universal Dependencies (UD) is becoming a standard annotation scheme crosslinguistically, but it is argued that this scheme centering on content words is harder to parse than the conventional one centering on function words. To improve the parsability of UD, we propose a backand-forth conversion algorithm, in which we preprocess the training treebank to increase parsability, and reconvert the p...