Non-timber forest products are very important in providing basic needs, cash deposits, and home consumption to forest-adjacent communities. Several socio-economic factors influence household dependence on non-timber products. This study focused analyzing the determining a household’s dependency from Chilimo Dandi, Ethiopia. Descriptive statistics logistic regression were applied analyze data. T...

In the present paper, we propose the effective usage of function words to generate generalized translation rules for forest-based translation. Given aligned forest-string pairs, we extract composed tree-to-string translation rules that account for multiple interpretations of both aligned and unaligned target function words. In order to constrain the exhaustive attachments of function words, we ...

We present a transition-based system that jointly predicts the syntactic structure and lexical units of a sentence by building two structures over the input words: a syntactic dependency tree and a forest of lexical units including multiword expressions (MWEs). This combined representation allows us to capture both the syntactic and semantic structure of MWEs, which in turn enables deeper downs...

We propose a new algorithm for parsing Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars (LTAGs) which uses pre-assigned bilexical dependency relations as a filter. That is, given a sentence and its corresponding well-formed dependency structure, the parser assigns elementary trees to words of the sentence and return attachment sites compatible with these elementary trees and predefined dependencies. Moreove...

Forest certification has been widely adopted by Bolivian stakeholders as a result of a strong combination of policy, training, technical assistance, and economic incentives for responsible forest management. The new Forestry Law of 1996 and associated regulations, the national dependency on foreign exports, and national and international support of forest management and certification together f...

Block coordinate descent (BCD) methods are often very effective for optimization problems where dependencies between variables are sparse. These methods can make a substantial amount of progress by applying Newton’s method to update a block of variables, but this leads to an iteration cost of O(|b|) in terms of the block size |b|. In this paper, we show how to use message-passing to compute the...