CLaC-CORE, an exhaustive feature combination system ranked 4th among 34 teams in the Semantic Textual Similarity shared task STS 2013. Using a core set of 11 lexical features of the most basic kind, it uses a support vector regressor which uses a combination of these lexical features to train a model for predicting similarity between sentences in a two phase method, which in turn uses all combi...

This article explores the concept of gradient bilectalism by capitalizing on insights from recent developments in second language acquisition, particularly the suggestion that aspects of the syntax–discourse interface that are not easily accessible to the learner may lead to fossilization, even at end state. I explore the implications of this suggestion for bilectal grammars by examining the wa...

The aim of this thesis was three-fold: firstly, to examine the development of reading and spelling abilities in the Greek language; secondly, to identify the cognitive predictors of reading and spelling skills; and finally, to establish how developmental dyslexia is manifested in the regular Greek orthography. An extensive battery of cognitive, linguistic, and literacy tasks was administered to...

UNLABELLED By charter, national Greek organizations (ie, fraternities and sororities) place an emphasis on upholding personal integrity, academic scholarship, and development of campus leaders. Recent concerns, however, assert that the drinking behaviors of members of Greek organizations are antithetical to the mission of their universities. OBJECTIVE The author's purpose in this review was t...

This year, we participated in TRECVID 2010 content-based copy detection task. In this notebook paper we will describe our work in details. Different from last year when we just used SURF (speeded up robust feature) as visual feature, this year we employed a combination of four different features for our rough detection process: global SURF, center SURR, global color correlogram and center corre...

The culmination of the 2002 RoboFlag Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, jointly operated between California Institute of Technology and Cornell University, was a final competition between two teams of three undergraduate researchers. After ten weeks of preparation, Team Pasadena defeated Team Ithaca in two of the three final games. This paper provides the detailed results of the ...

This paper presents research on “Greeklish,” that is, a transliteration of Greek using the Latin alphabet, which is used frequently in Greek e-mail communication. Greeklish is not standardized and there are a number of competing conventions co-existing in communication, based on personal preferences regarding similarities between Greek and Latin letters in shape, sound, or keyboard position. Ou...

A new complete set of Greek fonts and their use in connection with the babel greek extension is described. Some suggestions are proposed so as to enhance some TEX related utilities and some LATEX 2ε font description macros.