In this paper, we introduce a content selection method where the communicative goal is to describe entities of different categories (e.g., astronauts, universities or monuments). We argue that this method provides an interesting basis both for generating descriptions of entities and for semi-automatically constructing a benchmark on which to train, test and compare data-to-text generation systems.

Introduction. Education as a pre-determined process to cause new behavioral changes demands a major concern. The authorities are putting a great effort to increase the quality of education, but whether this has been achieved or not, we have tried to seek the opinions. Methods. 413 tutors and students from Hamadan, Kermanshah, Booshehr and Ahwaz universities, randomly were selected and filled o...

The interdisciplinary analysis of sustainability requires an in-depth study interactions between different economic entities, and identifying investment aspects developing relations them. concept Quintuple Helix Model allowed to analyze the mutual influence universities, industry (business), government, civil society natural environment. Within Model, central role in development economy is give...

This paper reports a project where Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) defined a new approach to build a next generation Student and Study Management System (SSMS). The project identified, defined and described the key processes in a future SSMS. The definition based on business processes described by expert users. The project developed tools and rules to draw and read the process ch...

while different elements including social, economic and cultural elements play a vital role in the emergence of behavioral patterns in humans, one cannot ignore the influence of the physical and spatial characteristics of built environment as a back ground for occurrence of anomic behavior on committing crimes. therefore, a series of approaches and theories such as “crime prevention through env...

The National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan, was founded in April 2000 as an inter-university research institute. Its cyberscience infrastructure (CSI) initiative aims at providing industrial and social contributions as well as a base for international cooperation on scientific research. The initiative includes projects focusing on: networks, grid research, interuniversity public ...

Concern with the prospects and experience of the ‘new’ second generation now stands at the top of the immigration research agenda in the United States. In contrast to the past, many immigrant offspring appear to be rapidly heading upward, exemplified by the large number of Chinese, Korean, Indian and other Asian-origin students enrolled in the nation’s leading universities, some the children of...

This paper examines the development of the Image Understanding Architecture (IUA), a heterogeneous, multi-level parallel processor being built by the University of Massachusetts and Hughes Research Laboratories to support real-time, knowledge-based machine vision. An architectural overview of the prototype IUA is presented, and then the design of the second generation of the architecture, which...

According to ITU (2012), digital divide is the difference between countries in terms of levels of ICT development. This difference remains significant. In 2011, the ICT Development Index (IDI) value of developed countries (6.52) was twice as high as that of developing countries (3.24). The need to link the digital divide for universal broadband Internet access is within the key international de...