In compliance with Motion #1 of the NIST Workshop on the Electronic Exchange of Fingerprint Images held on March 4-6, 1992, the fourth meeting of the Compression Review Group was held at NIST. This meeting took place in Gaithersburg, MDon June3, 1993. Organizations represented were the FBI, UK Home Office, IAI, NIDL, and NIST. Nine individuals were present including three from the Latent Finger...

We develop a model of competition between legal systems with overlapping jurisdictions based on Hotelling competition that suggests that, absent institutional reform, courts with overlapping jurisdictions will be driven to adopt divergent legal doctrines in order to extract rents from agents with heterogeneous preferences over which doctrine is applied to their case. This has the effect of weak...

This paper describes usage of MT metrics in choosing the best candidates for MT-based query translation resources. Our main metrics is METEOR, but we also use NIST and BLEU. Language pair of our evaluation is English German, because MT metrics still do not offer very many language pairs for comparison. We evaluated translations of CLEF 2003 topics of four different MT programs with MT metrics a...