We explore the benefit that users in several application areas can experience from a “tab-complete” editing assistance function. We develop an evaluation metric and adapt N -gram language models to the problem of predicting the subsequent words, given an initial text fragment. Using an instance-based method as baseline, we empirically study the predictability of call-center emails, personal ema...

road accident severity may be influenced by a number of various systematic causal factors. the weather and road accidents have a close relationship with each other and a number of methods have been proposed for measuring the risk of a road accident with rainy, foggy, and snowy weather and high winds. recent studies indicate that road collision rates increase during precipitation. the weather wa...

We describe multi-lingual text generation as an alternative to automatic translation in specified technical sublanguages, illustrating the notion with the implemented RAREAS-2 system for synthesizing marine weather forecasts in English and French. We then review the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) of Mel'cuk et al. as we have applied it to text generation in the GOSSIP system for producing English re...

The Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP) service is expanding rapidly, and aims to encompass all NESLi2-participating publishers by the end of 2011, together with all UK higher-education institutions subscribing to deals from those publishers. A key part of the success of JUSP will be the implementation of the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) protocol for automatic ...

The case report, which has a long history in medicine, has seen its fortune wax and wane with time. We discuss the challenges facing the continued survival of the case report, including the inability of journals to cope with the increased load and increased cost of publication, ethical issues, the impact factor and the rise of evidence-based medicine. We highlight the important role that the ca...

The Eigenfactor score is a journal influence metric developed at the Department of Biology of the University of Washington and recently introduced in the Science and Social Science Journal Citation Reports maintained by Thomson Reuters. It provides a compelling measure of journal status with solid mathematical background, sound axiomatic foundation, intriguing stochastic interpretation, and man...

In this paper we present our experiences in the evaluation of a wide-coverage grammar of English: the XTAG English grammar. We give a brief history of previous evaluations done using the XTAG grammar and then describe a pair of new evaluations done on a corpus of weather reports and the CSLI LKB test suite. Based on these experiments, we discuss the differing merits of naturally occurring corpo...

From annual reports submitted to the Social Security Board by State agencies administering approved plans for old-age assistance, information is available on the sex, marital status, and living arrangements of 1,063,000 recipients of old-age assistance. Of these recipients, 477,000 were accepted for aid in 42 States 1 in selected periods of the fiscal year 1936-37 2 and 586,000 were accepted in...

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