A Tale about Simplicity and Imagination

A Tale about PRO and Monsters

While experimenting with tuning on long sentences, we made an unexpected discovery: that PRO falls victim to monsters – overly long negative examples with very low BLEU+1 scores, which are unsuitable for learning and can cause testing BLEU to drop by several points absolute. We propose several effective ways to address the problem, using lengthand BLEU+1based cut-offs, outlier filters, stochast...

A Cautionary Tale About a Bridesmaid's DRESS.

A previously healthy 18-year-old girl with no significant medical history presented to her pediatrician in the summer with a sore throat and fatigue. Results of a rapid Streptococcus (strep) screening test and a mononucleosis spot test were both negative, and she was prescribed a 10-day course of amoxicillin for the pharyngitis. One week later, the patient returned with a diffuse rash consistin...

Universalizing BulTreeBank: a Linguistic Tale about Glocalization

The paper presents the strategies and conversion principles of BulTreeBank into Universal Dependencies annotation scheme. The mappings are discussed from linguistic and technical point of view. The mapping from the original resource to the new one has been done on morphological and syntactic level. The first release of the treebank was issued in May 2015. It contains 125 000 tokens, which cover...

A Tale of Two Theories: Monopolies and Craft Guilds in Medieval England and Modern Imagination

Popular texts typically assert that guilds of craftsmen `̀ monopolized’ ’ markets in medieval England. Norman Cantor’s Medieval Reader declares `̀ craft guilds’ . . . main purpose and activity was narrow regulation of industrial productivity in order to restrain competition’ ’ (Cantor 1994, p. 278). Douglass North’s Structure and Change in Economic History asserts `̀ . . . guilds organized to prot...

Digital Necrosis: A Hoarder’s Tale