Parallel text acquisition from the Web is an attractive way for augmenting statistical models (e.g., machine translation, crosslingual document retrieval) with domain representative data. The basis for obtaining such data is a collection of pairs of bilingual Web sites or pages. In this work, we propose a crawling strategy that locates bilingual Web sites by constraining the visitation policy o...

We examined whether western fence lizards Sceloporus occidentalis occurring in thermally divergent environments display differential responses to high temperature in locomotor performance and heat-shock protein (Hsp) expression. We measured maximum sprint speed in S. occidentalis from four populations at paired latitudes and elevations before and after exposure to an experimental heat treatment...

This paper describes a recently collected spoken language corpus for the ATIS (Air Travel Information System) domain. This data collection effort has been co-ordinated by MADCOW (Multi-site ATIS Data COllection Working group). We summarize the motivation for this effort, the goals, the implementation of a multi-site data collection paradigm, and the accomplishments of MADCOW in monitoring the c...

this study was conducted in order to sustainable conservation and utilization of trifolium genetic resources. a total of 1333 accessions of trifolium under 32 species from 27 provinces were collected according to ipgri descriptors. collected germplasms are conserved in mid- and long-term conservation at national plant gene bank of iran. statistical parameters of tendency to center and dispersio...

Internet-based surveys have emerged as a popular data collection method for researchers, enabling the collection of responses from participants at multiple sites, including in other countries. Oftentimes, pooled data is analyzed without regard to understanding the potential downsides. Given that the results from any survey hinge on the validity of the responses collected, it is important to exa...

Identifying high-quality content in community-type Q&A (CQA) sites is important. We propose a task in which a computer identifies good answers from such sites. We describe the design of our bestanswer estimation task using Yahoo! Chiebukuro. We also describe a method of constructing the test collection used for our CQA pilot task, the manual assessment method, and assessment results.

Seasonal variation of P. striata was studied from May 2010 to April 2013 in five mango plantation sites of Dharwad District. It revealed that there was an increase in population with respect to the fruiting season of mango (May and June), and it decreased after the fruiting season. The fluctuation is due to the changes in the microhabitat of the collection sites.

Background. Variable adherence to standardized case definitions, clinical procedures, specimen collection techniques, and laboratory methods has complicated the interpretation of previous multicenter pneumonia etiology studies. To circumvent these problems, a program of clinical standardization was embedded in the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study. Methods. Between Ma...