Recreational Fisheries as a Pathway for Non-native Fishes: Czech Experiences

A hotspot of non-native marine fishes: evidence for the aquarium trade as an invasion pathway

Invasions of non-native species in marine ecosystems can be ecologically damaging and economically costly. Identifying ‘hot-spots’ of non-native species and their sources of introduction is necessary to maximize the effectiveness of invasion quarantine programs. We use a large spatially explicit marine fish database to show that there are a surprising number of non-native fishes on the reefs of...

Parsing Writings of Non-Native Czech

We present a pilot study on parsing non-native texts written by learners of Czech. We performed experiments that have shown that at least high-level syntactic functions, like subject, predicate, and object, can be assigned based on a parser trained on standard native language.

The Nile Fishes and Fisheries

Improvements to Korektor: A Case Study with Native and Non-Native Czech

We present recent developments of Korektor, a statistical spell checking system. In addition to lexicon, Korektor uses language models to find real-word errors, detectable only in context. The models and error probabilities, learned from error corpora, are also used to suggest the most likely corrections. Korektor was originally trained on a small error corpus and used language models extracted...

Lure-size Restrictions in Recreational Fisheries

Length and possession (creel or bag) limits are among the most commonly used regulations for management of recreational fisheries. Although several types of length limits (e.g., minimum, maximum, protected slot, and inverse slot) are used to manage fisheries, all require that anglers release certain sizes of fish. Daily possession limits also require release of captured fish after anglers’ catc...