We present a dataset created from the Hansard House of Commons archived debates of the UK parliament (2013-2016). The resource includes fine-grained topic annotations at the document level and is enriched with additional semantic information such as the one provided by entity links. We assess the quality and usefulness of this corpus with two benchmarks on topic classification and ranking.

Sensing health-related behaviours in an unobtrusive, ubiquitous and cost-effective manner carries significant benefits to healthcare and patient management. In this paper, we focus on detecting typing behaviour that is characteristic of patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease. We consider typing data obtained from subjects with and without Parkinson’s, and we present a framework based on to...

The use of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components is becoming a strategic need because they offer the possibility to build systems at reduced costs and within shorter development time. Having efficient and reliable COTS components selection methods is a key issue not only for exploiting the potential benefits of this technology, but also for facing the problems and risks involved. Searching...

In several recent publications, numerical integrators based on Jacobi elliptic functions are proposed for solving the equations of motion of the rigid body. Although this approach yields theoretically the exact solution, a standard implementation shows an unexpected linear propagation of round-off errors. We explain how deterministic error contribution can be avoided, so that round-off behaves ...

This paper draws attention to the risk of rounding error in the numerical evaluation of steady-state probabilities for the M/M family of queues. A method for avoiding the risk is presented which is easy to program for calculation in practice.

In this paper we demonstrate how automatically generated transcriptions can be used to develop an effective topic classification application. Two key contributions of our work are (a) investigating the impact of unsupervised transcriptions on topic classification where the transcription system has been trained with very limited amounts of data, and (b) demonstrating the use of mixture language ...

Abstract: As the device feature size enters into the nanoscale, the modeling and simulation of short channel effects in FinFETs devices become challenging. In this paper an easy approach to model short channel effects threshold voltage roll-off in nanoscale n-channel FinFETs is presented. The decrease of threshold voltage with decrease in gate length is a well-known short channel effect called ...

The healthcare industry is being impacted by advances in information technology in four major ways: first, a broad spectrum of tasks that were previously done manually can now be performed by computers; second, some tasks can be outsourced to other countries using inexpensive communications technology; third, longitudinal and societal healthcare data can now be analyzed in acceptable periods of...

We determine for which rouiidings adrlitioii in the floating-point screen has representable rounding error, whicli rouiiclings are implied by truncation of digit strings i n different radix systems with contiguous digits, and how rnany additional digits (including possibly a sticky bit) have to I)c kept in such systems in orcler to perforin a given rorinclirig correctly. Throughout the paper, w...