The Privileged Agrarian Bank building

BUILDING A HEBREW TREE-BANK Building a Tree-Bank of Modern Hebrew Text

This paper describes the process of building the first tree-bank for Modern Hebrew texts. A major concern in this process is the need for reducing the cost of manual annotation by the use of automatic means. To this end, the joint utility of an automatic morphological analyzer, a probabilistic parser and a small manually annotated tree-bank was explored. An initial tree-bank that consists of 50...

Building a Bank of Semantically Encoded Narratives

We propose a methodology for a novel type of discourse annotation whose model is tuned to the analysis of a text as narrative. This is intended to be the basis of a “story bank” resource that would facilitate the automatic analysis of narrative structure and content. The methodology calls for annotators to construct propositions that approximate a reference text, by selecting predicates and arg...

Post-socialist Bank Crises and the Problems of Institution-building

Bank crises are usually the result of dramatic swings in the value of assets held by the banking system. When asset values fall relative to liabilities, banks net worth is eroded, resulting in crisis. Minsky (1977) argues that such asset devaluations are a normal feature of the business cycle in market economies. As confidence builds during the business cycle, more and more agents engage in spe...

Boserup and Agrarian Ecology

Albania's radical agrarian reform.

The agrarian reform in Albania included free distribution of land to rural households and the complete break up of the former collective and state farms. These key features of the Albanian reform are in sharp contrast with other Central and Eastern European countries. Our paper explains the choice of the Albanian agricultural privatization and land reform process and the radical decollectivizat...