This paper proposes a novel framework called bilingual co-training for a largescale, accurate acquisition method for monolingual semantic knowledge. In this framework, we combine the independent processes of monolingual semanticknowledge acquisition for two languages using bilingual resources to boost performance. We apply this framework to largescale hyponymy-relation acquisition from Wikipedi...

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The wind environment around a building influences human lives and the design of it. Simulation by CFD software is a main method used to study wind environment. But the reliability of the simulation result needs to be proved by comparing to the measured wind environment data. Experiment and simulation on wind environment were carried out in this reasearch. What’s more, different simulation metho...

We deene a compositional labelled transition system semantics for statecharts via a translation into a new process language called SP. The main novelty of the language is an operator of process reene-ment, which reeects the statecharts hierarchical structure. The translation agrees with Pnueli and Shalev semantics of statecharts. However, since the language is parametric in the set of basic act...

Juvenile male M. a. ater cowbirds, who have never heard other male cowbirds sing, develop distinctively different repertoires when housed with M. a. ater females from their own area versus M. a. obscurus females from a distant population. Because female cowbirds do not sing, the differences in the males' songs do not arise through vocal imitation. Here we provide data demonstrating that the son...

This paper explores collaborative ability of co-training algorithm. We propose a new measurement (CA) for representing the collaborative ability of co-training classifiers based on the overlapping proportion between certain and uncertain instances. The CA measurement indicates whether two classifiers can co-train effectively. We make theoretical analysis for CA values in co-training with indepe...

We present an extension EL ⊥ T of the description logic EL ⊥ for reasoning about prototypical properties and inheritance with exceptions. EL ⊥ T is obtained by adding to EL ⊥ a typicality operator T, which is intended to select the “typical” instances of a concept. In EL ⊥ T knowledge bases may contain inclusions of the form “T(C) is subsumed by P”, expressing that typical C-members have the pr...

An overview is given of different approaches to describing the process of deconfine-ment in quantum chromodynamics. The analysis of the known approaches demonstrates that the detailed picture of how deconfinement really occurs has not yet been understood. Therefore, one has to be rather cautious when interpreting experimental signals as attributed to deconfinement.

Maps of science representing the structure of science can help us understand science and technology development. However, navigating the recent scientific landscape is still challenging, since application of inter-citation and co-citation analysis for ongoing projects and recently published papers has difficulty. Therefore, in order to characterize what is being attempted in the current scienti...