Corpus-based approaches to word sense identification have flexibility and generality but suffer from a knowledge acquisition bottleneck. We show how knowledge-based techniques can be used to open the bottleneck by automatically locating training corpora. We describe a statistical classifier that combines topical context with local cues to ident~y a word sense. The classifier is used to disambig...

An exploratory study was conducted to examine the differences in the use of persuasive linguistic devices used by anonymous and identified groups communicating electronically in order to achieve consensus on a jury decisionmaking task. Anonymous groups were found to cooperate together to create character identities for themselves, to make more errors of factual information and to request compro...

The DMS Staph-Trac system was evaluated as a means for identifying the species of bovine strains of staphylococci routinely isolated from quarter-milk samples. The species identity of 83 of 91 (91.2%) isolates of staphylococci was correctly determined by this method. One isolate could not be identified by this system. The Staph-Trac system was able to distinguish between Staphylococcus hyicus a...

Recent breakthroughs in mobile phone technology are focusing on new techniques that allow the compact integration of dualband printed antennas into handsets with an increase in their inherent narrow bandwidth. In this letter, no el rectangular, circular, triangular, hexagonal, and bow-tie-shaped spur-line dual-band printed structures ha e been designed, measured, and compared. Although a second...

In this paper we present an acceleration method for volumetric ray tracing which utilizes standard graphics hardware without compromising image accuracy. The graphics hardware is employed to ident@ those segments of each ray that could possibly contribute to the jinal image. A volumetric ray tracing algorithm is then used to compute the$nal image, traversing only the identi$ed segments of the r...

Background Ventricular arrhythmias are a major cause of death after myocardial infarction, especially in patients w ith poor left -ventricular funct ion. Previous at tempts t o ident i fy and suppress ar rhy t hmias w i t h var ious antiarrhythmic drugs failed to reduce or actually increase mortality. Amiodarone is a powerful antiarrhythmic drug with several potentially beneficial actions, and ...

Proofs of storage (PoS) are interactive protocols allowing a client to verify that a server faithfully stores a file. Previous work has shown that proofs of storage can be constructed from any homomorphic linear authenticator (HLA). The latter, roughly speaking, are signature/message authentication schemes where ‘tags’ on multiple messages can be homomorphically combined to yield a ‘tag’ on any...

The Semantic Web gives users and applications the ability to access and retrieve decentralized resources which may be stored in triplestores. This paper describes a simple identification protocol dedicated to triplestores which is universal and appropriate for the distributed environment. We propose a mechanism based on the HTTP standard, extended with OAuth Protocol and Semantic Web ontology. ...

This paper describes a family of new Ong-Schnorr-ShamirFiat-Shamir like [1] identification and signature protocols designed to prevent forgers from using the Pollard-Schnorr attack [2]. Our first signature method takes advantage of the fact that although an attacker can generate valid OSS signatures (solutions {x, y} of x−ky ≡ m mod n), he has no control over the internal structure of x and y a...