We present a comparative case study of discrete and probabilistic sequence classification methods applied to two real-world entity chunking tasks in the medical domain. It is shown that a discrete version of maximum-entropy models that does not coordinate its decisions is outperformed by both architecturally-augmented discrete versions, and probabilistic versions combined with an inference step...

Vocabulary learning is pivotal for language as it a cross-sectional aspect related to both receptive and productive skills. L2 vocabulary has given way substantial body of research in which the role implicit explicit instruction been central. Bearing mind importance communicative tasks sources learning, this study will explore how presented with context without retained. 39 undergraduate studen...

The success of agent-oriented concepts in various application domains, in particular in manufacturing control, creates the need for an agent-oriented analysis, design, and programming methodology. This paper presents a programming method that covers one step of the necessary methodology. Given a specification of the tasks to be performed, the method allows to program the corresponding agent in ...

To narrow the scope of rescheduling tasks is one of the effective ways to improve the grid dependent tasks rescheduling efficiency. For how to determine the scope which should improve the efficiency of rescheduling problem as far as possible without affecting the application performance, this paper proposed the rescheduling tasks spread domain concept and its method of computation. Beginning wi...

Aspect-oriented approaches have recently been proposed to address the problem of specifying dynamic object-based systems, by depicting the various roles of the objects separately. In this paper, we consider an approach based on the observable behavior of objects and propose a specification formalism for reusable object interfaces with input/output-driven assumption-guarantee predicates. The for...

FC++ is a library for programming functionally in C++. Compared to other C++ functional programming libraries, FC++ is distinguished by its powerful type system which allows manipulating parametrically polymorphic functions (e.g., passing them as arguments to other functions and returning them as results). In this paper, we show how FC++ can be used in common OO programming tasks. We demonstrat...

abstractthe current study examined the modification devices (mds) used by non-native speakers (nnss) learning efl during dyadic task-based interactions. three meaning-oriented tasks, namely picture-description, spot-the-difference, and opinion-exchange, were used to elicit data from 24(12 male and 12 female, forming 4 male-male, 4 female-female, and 4 male-female dyads) iranian efl learners wit...

In ecological economics, common themes notwithstanding, there is a lack of consensus in basic views, with no signs convergence. All the while, ecological, economic, and social crises continue to deepen globally. A question arises: philosophical speculation mathematical modeling aside, how can we make progress theory praxis when are mutually incompatible views sources transdisciplinary? This art...

One fundamental issue in service-oriented computing concerns the question whether services can be composed in a manner that allows them to achieve their individual goals. In this paper we use a variant of interface automata as an abstraction of the input/output behaviour of services, which are themselves represented as terms in the π-calculus extended with an action for expressing service colla...