Following Gillick and Favre (2009), a lot of work about extractive summarization has modeled this task by associating two contrary constraints: one aims at maximizing the coverage of the summary with respect to its information content while the other represents its size limit. In this context, the notion of redundancy is only implicitly taken into account. In this article, we extend the framewo...

Over recent years, a number of objective hearing models have been developed that attempt to analyse the spatial performance of audio systems in a manner that relates to how sound is perceived by humans 1, 2, 3 – i.e., the models predict the attributes of a sound in a way that is meaningful to human listeners, using scales and categories that are similar to those which a listener would use to de...

Models such as the Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1) assume that pH can be calculated directly from the concentration of hydrogen ions. However because pH is, by definition, the negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion activity, and thus pH measurements represent hydrogen ion activities, this approach may lead to a bias between measured and predicted pH values. Implementing ionic strength ef...

We describe a classification-based approach to referring expression generation (REG) making use of standard context-related features, and an extension that adds speaker-related features. Results show that taking speakers’ preferences into account outperforms the standard REG model in four test corpora of definite descriptions.

To take into account the effects of radiation damage, new algorithms for the optimization of data-collection strategies have been implemented in the software package BEST. The intensity variation related to radiation damage is approximated by log-linear functions of resolution and cumulative X-ray dose. Based on an accurate prediction of the basic characteristics of data yet to be collected, BE...

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The eukaryotic genome is organized in a chain of nucleosomes that consist of 145-147 bp of DNA wrapped around a histone octamer protein core. Binding of transcription factors (TF) to nucleosomal DNA is frequently impeded, which makes it a challenging task to calculate TF occupancy at a given regulatory genomic site for predicting gene expression. Here, we review methods to calculate TF binding ...

This paper presents a new approach to sensor placement based on diagnosability criteria. It is based on the study of structural matrices. Properties of structural matrices regarding detectability, discriminability and diagnosability are established in order to be used by sensor placement methods. The proposed approach manages any number of constraints modelled by linear or nonlinear equations a...

The verification of Java programs is a difficult task, especially with components like the Security Manager which modify the semantic of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). To model this invasive behaviour the Security Manager can be implemented as an aspect component, using AspectJ. In this paper we describe a framework for static verification of Java programs containing AspectJ advices specified ...

This paper presents a novel sentence extraction framework that takes into account the consecutiveness of important sentences using a Support Vector Machine (SVM). Generally, most extractive summarizers do not take context information into account, but do take into account the redundancy over the entire summarization. However, there must exist relationships among the extracted sentences. Actuall...