Arrau is a new corpus annotated for anaphoric relations, with information about agreement and explicit representation of multiple antecedents for ambiguous anaphoric expressions and discourse antecedents for expressions which refer to abstract entities such as events, actions and plans. The corpus contains texts from different genres: task-oriented dialogues from the Trains-91 and Trains-93 cor...

This paper identifies that a meaningful rule in a fuzzy expert systems (FES) depends to some degree on the number of rule antecedents connected to a rule consequent. The paper presents an alternative for scenarios where a larger number of rule antecedents applies to the same rule consequent. Results of an application of the method in the domain of coronary heart disease risk assessment (CHDRA) ...

Department of Management & Marketing King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Abstract. Existing streams of literature are integrated to propose a conceptual framework that highlights the antecedents of relationship marketing on customer loyalty and its outcomes. The framework aims to provide insights into the underpinnings of relationship marketing. The proposed...

In two experiments, many annotators marked antecedents for discourse deixis as unconstrained regions of text. The experiments show that annotators do converge on the identity of these text regions, though much of what they do can be captured by a simple model. Demonstrative pronouns are more likely than definite descriptions to be marked with discourse antecedents. We suggest that our methodolo...

Given growing interest in collective turnover (i.e., employee turnover at unit and organizational levels), the authors propose an organizing framework for its antecedents and consequences and test it using meta-analysis. Based on analysis of 694 effect sizes drawn from 82 studies, results generally support expected relationships across the 6 categories of collective turnover antecedents, with s...

Wireless phone services acceptance may be fundamentally different from traditional systems acceptance or online purchase adoption, partly because it includes acceptance of both technology products and services, and partly because the characteristics of wireless service providers also have roles to play. To understand these differences we study antecedents to Technology Acceptance Model’s (TAM) ...

The information extraction is to delimit in advance, as part of the specification of the task, the semantic range of the output and to filter information from large volumes of texts. The most representative word of the document is composed of named entities and pronouns. Therefore, it is important to resolve coreference in order to extract the meaningful information in information extraction. C...

Burnout is one of the effective factors in reducing staff performance quality. Stress and burnout lead to quitting the job in the nursing profession to a great extent. Considering the importance of the nurses' physical and mental health and the role of burnout in nursing services quality, the present research aimed to investigate the relationship between the antecedents and burnout among the st...

Research suggests that causal judgment is influenced primarily by counterfactual or covariational reasoning. In contrast, the author of this article develops judgment dissociation theory (JDT), which predicts that these types of reasoning differ in function and can lead to divergent judgments. The actuality principle proposes that causal selections focus on antecedents that are sufficient to ge...