Direct and indirect aboutness topics

Identifying "aboutness topics": two annotation experiments

This paper deals with the annotation of “aboutness topic” (also known as “sentence topic”) in naturally occurring data. We report on two annotation experiments involving German newspaper texts: In experiment 1, based on the annotation guidelines by Götze et al. (2007), two expert annotators had to select the aboutness topic from among a small number of pre-defined choices, for a total of 588 se...

O12: Direct and Indirect Insults of Traumatic Brain Injury

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Direct and Indirect Representation

How much can a constituency influence the power of its representative in the legislature? We develop a theoretical model of the constituency basis of legislator influence. The key players in the model are interest groups who may receive targeted transfers from the legislature. The model predicts that the amount of transfers that such groups receive is increasing in their ability to help a party...

Direct and Indirect Belief

Direct and Indirect Validation

To evaluate ultrasonographically determined intima-media thickness as a measure of early atherosclerosis, three studies were performed. Ultrasound measurements of intimamedia thickness in the carotid artery were directly validated by comparing the same thickness measured by light microscopy. The values were closely correlated (r=.82, P<.001). Intima-media thickness determined by light microscop...