Combo That, Please!

Press that button again, please.

Would you please stop that!?

Purpose – Meetings are ubiquitous in organizational life and are a great source of frustration and annoyance to many employees in the workplace, in part due to counterproductive meeting behaviors (CMBs). CMBs include engaging in irrelevant discussion, complaining about other attendees, arriving to the meeting late, and other similar, disruptive behaviors. Consistent with conservation of resourc...

Please put out that cigarette, grandpa.

In the industrialised nations stroke is a leading cause of physical disability and its international significance is accelerating rapidly as life expectancy increases around the globe. 1 But stroke has been a much neglected Cinderella of cardiovascular disease, for perhaps at least three reasons. Firstly, in Westernised countries stroke is far less common as a cause of death than is its sister ...

The 2012 syphilis & HIV combo

We report a case of a homosexual male patient with an unusual presentation of syphilis and HIV co-infection. The initial skin problem on the scalp appeared banal and seborrhoeic. However, this soon became multifocal and general symptoms developed as well. The patient's personal history signalled the possibilities of sexually transmitted diseases. Subsequent investigations unfolded a modern derm...

The LDV-COMBO system for SMT

We describe the LDV-COMBO system presented at the Shared Task. Our approach explores the possibility of working with alignments at different levels of abstraction using different degrees of linguistic analysis from the lexical to the shallow syntactic level. Translation models are built on top of combinations of these alignments. We present results for the Spanish-to-English and English-toSpani...