This paper describes a system for temporal processing of text, which participated in the Temporal Evaluations 2013 campaign. The system employs a number of machine learning classifiers to perform the core tasks of: identification of time expressions and events, recognition of their attributes, and estimation of temporal links between recognized events and times. The central feature of the propo...

This paper presents our approach and results in the hyperlinking sub-task at MediaEval 2014. A two step approach is implemented: relying on a topic segmentation technique, the first step consists in generating potential target segments; then, for each anchor, the best 20 target segments are selected according to two distinct strategies: the first one focuses on the identification of very simila...

the archaeological investigations of three prehistoric tells (zagheh, qabrestan, and sagzabad) located at a distance of ~2 km from each other in the qazvin plain (nw iran) indicates that tepe zagheh was occupied in 6th and 5th millennia b.c. but due to unknown reasons life at this site ceased and started in tepe qabrestan at the beginning of 4th millennium b.c. this tell was occupied for a mill...

in march 2004, a fluxgate gradiometer survey was conducted over tepe ghabristan, covering approximately 6ha of ground. it identified further areas of the iron age cemetery with possible grave pits (areas b and c). in addition, an irrigation channel was discovered which could be contemporary to these iron age graves (area d). the anomalies in area e can be interpreted as buried structural remain...

A product of years research, both on and off-site, this volume provides a much-needed documentation corpus eighteen monumental rock reliefs carved between the seventeenth sixth centuries BC in Elamite highland open-air sanctuaries Izeh valley its surrounds (Xong-e Azdhar, Shah Savar, Shekaft-e Salman, Kul-e Farah, Qal-e Tul), Mamasani river district (Kurangun), Marvdasht plain (Naqsh-e Rustam)....

Kur’ân-ı Kerim’de ve hadîs-i şerîflerde çeşitli metaforik anlamlarda kullanılan hicâb/perde kavramı, sûfîler tarafından da aynı amaçla kullanılmıştır. Sûfilere göre bu kavram, daha çok Hak ile kul arasındaki engeller şeklinde ele alınmıştır. Hicâb/perde tasavvuf düşüncesinde varlık anlayışı açıklanırken önemli kavramlardan biridir. Kul için olan Hakk’a ulaşmaktır. Kulun ulaşmasına engel her ne ...

Dasht-e Lut (Lut Desert) is archaeologically well-known in Near East thanks to the presence, on its western edge, of the Bronze Age urban centre of Shahdad. In 2012, the author launched a three-season field project in the area of Shahdad, with an agenda articulated around three main research points: an extensive archaeological survey along the western edge of the Lut Desert, the stratigraphic e...

Intussusception in adults is very rarely seen, and this cause acute abdomen. A computed tomography (CT) scan, clinical suspicion, history, and a physical examination are important for the diagnosis. We present two cases of colonic intussusceptions induced by lipoma. The cases had similar locations, diagnoses, and management. Both lipomas were located close to the cecum in the ascending colon, a...