Zenith City: Stories from Duluth by Michael Fedo

Countering Confusion About the Duluth Model By Michael Paymar and Graham Barnes, Battered Women’s Justice Project

The Duluth Word Alignment System

The Duluth Word Alignment System participated in the 2003 HLT-NAACL Workshop on Parallel Text shared task on word alignment for both English–French and Romanian–English. It is a Perl implementation of IBM Model 2. We used approximately 50,000 aligned sentences as training data for each language pair, and found the results for Romanian–English to be somewhat better. We also varied the Model 2 di...

By Michael O ’ Rourke

Buried pipeline systems are commonly used to transport water, sewage, oil, natural gas and other materials. In the conterminous United States, there are about 77,109 km (47,924 miles) of crude oil pipelines, 85,461 km (53,114 miles) of refined oil pipelines and 67,898 km (42,199 miles) of natural gas pipelines (FEMA, 1991). The total length of water and sewage pipelines is not readily available...

Automated Story Conversion: Generating Children stories from Adult stories

1. ABSTRACT We developed an approach to convert“adult stories” to“children stories.” Specifically, we obtained 30 stories, 15 of which were of each story type. Our Lexical Analyzer (LA) made use of OpenNLP’s part-of-speech tagging utility. With this, we developed a means to do clausal separation, allowing our story to be more direct and explicit by generating more simple sentences. We looked at...

Lecture by Michael Hopkins: from Spectra to Stacks

This talk aims to explain why the language of stacks, language which was relatively unused even in algebraic geometry around the time tmf was constructed, plays such a prominent role in the theorem expressing the existence of TMF . Let me try to explain where it all came from... I come from an era in homotopy theory when all that anybody did was to compute things. Doug Ravenel and others tried ...