We propose the semantic proto-role linking model, which jointly induces both predicate-specific semantic roles and predicate-general semantic proto-roles based on semantic proto-role property likelihood judgments. We use this model to empirically evaluate Dowty’s thematic proto-role linking theory.

according to the geographical and environmental situation, the kur river basin have been occupied from the middle paleolithic to the modern times. of the ancient cultures of the region, the 3rd millennium b.c cultures contemporary with proto-elemite and the elemite dynasties have less known. despite to the importance of this span of time, there is not clear understanding on the transition from ...

a total 7 species and 13 genera of marine gastropod assemblages are reported for the first time from the varehh zard section (asmari formation), north of pole dokhtar, lorestan basin. the section under study, the asmari formation, lies between the shahbazam formation at the base and gachsaran formation at the top. according to the distribution of index foraminifera, the asmari formation is earl...

The human lbc oncogene product is a guanine nucleotide exchange factor that specifically activates the Rho small GTP binding protein, thus resulting in biologically active, GTP-bound Rho, which in turn mediates actin cytoskeletal reorganization, gene transcription, and entry into the mitotic S phase. In order to elucidate the mechanism of onco-Lbc transformation, here we report that while proto...

Authenti ation Proto ols Matthias Krause and Dirk Stegemann Theoreti al Computer S ien e University of Mannheim Mannheim, Germany Abstra t. The limited omputational resour es available on RFID tags imply a need for spe ially designed authenti ation proto ols. The light weight authenti ation proto ol HB+ proposed by Juels and Weis seems urrently se ure for several RFID appli ations, but is too s...

We introduce the proto-object model of visual clutter perception. This unsupervised model segments an image into superpixels, then merges neighboring superpixels that share a common color cluster to obtain proto-objects-defined here as spatially extended regions of coherent features. Clutter is estimated by simply counting the number of proto-objects. We tested this model using 90 images of rea...

background: the herpes simplex virus (hsv) ul41 gene product, virion host shutoff (vhs) protein, mediates the rapid degradation of both viral and cellular mrna. this ability suggests that vhs protein can be used as a suicide gene in cancer gene therapy applications. the recent reports have shown that the degradation of cellular mrna during herpes simplex infection is selective. rna containing a...