This paper presents computational work to detect satire/sarcasm in long commentaries on Italian politics. It uses the lexica extracted from the manual annotation based on Appraisal Theory, of some 30K word texts. The underlying hypothesis is that using this framework it is possible to precisely pinpoint ironic content through the deep semantic analysis of evaluative judgement and appreciation. ...

The first definite discoveries of extragalactic deuterium are reported. DCO has been detected in three and DCN has been measured in one star-forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). While the HCO/DCO abundance ratios are found to be 19± 3, 24 ± 4, and 67 ± 18 for N113, N44BC and N159HW, respectively, a HCN/DCN abundance ratio of 23 ± 5 is obtained for N113. These results are consiste...

We have investigated the formation of ozone by electron impact in solid molecular oxygen ices between 11 and 30K. The amount of ozone formed is shown to be strongly dependent on the sample temperature. As the ice temperature increases, the column density of the ozonemonomer is found to diminish. This is ascribed to the loss of oxygen atoms by recombinationwith a neighboring oxygen atom to ‘‘rec...

Optically thin cooling gas at most temperatures above 30K will make condensations by pressure pushing material into cool dense regions. This works without gravity. Cooling condensations will flatten and become planar/similarity solutions. Most star formation may start from cooling condensations with gravity only important in the later stages. The idea that some of the dark matter could be prist...

We present a new content-based approach to summarize instructional videos. We first redefine “scene” in instructional videos. Focusing on one dominant scene type, that of handwritten lecture notes, we define semantic content as “ink pixels”, and present a low-level retrieval technique to extract this content from each frame with consideration of various occlusion and illumination effects. “Key ...

In this paper, we investigate sufficient conditions on the neighborhood of independent vertices which imply that a graph contains k independent cycles or chorded cycles. This is related to several results of Corrádi and Hajnal, Justesen, Wang, and Faudree and Gould on graphs containing k independent cycles, and Finkel on graphs containing k chorded cycles. In particular, we establish that if in...

In addition to its nutritional value, cranberry juice has been effective in treating urinary tract infections. Various reports have also demonstrated its potential for inhibiting in vitro growth of transformed cell lines. Here we show that a fraction [nondialyzable material (NDM) of a molecular weight range 12,000-30,000 (NDM 12-30K)] derived from cranberry juice impairs in vitro growth and inv...

We introduce a promising new platform for Majorana zero-modes and various spintronics applications based on gate-defined wires in HgTe quantum wells. Due to the Dirac-like band structure for HgTe the physics of such systems differs markedly from that of conventional quantum wires. Most strikingly, we show that the subband parameters for gate-defined HgTe wires exhibit exquisite tunability: mode...

mean average precision using grid search with a step size of 0.05m in the range [0.05, 0.60]m. Table 1 shows that depending on which error metric is used (i.e., does missing an occluded joint count as a false negative or not?), the optimized length thresholds are quite different. In the right column we see that when the model is penalized for missing occluded joints, it makes use of longer rang...

In this paper we describe our ongoing work concerning lexical modeling in the LIMSI broadcast transcription system for German. Lexical decomposition is investigated with a twofold goal: lexical coverage optimization and improved letter-to-sound conversion. A set of about 450 decompounding rules, developed using statistics from a 300M word corpus, reduces the OOV rate from 4.5% to 4.0% on a 30k ...