naturally occurred soil deposits inherit heterogeneity and anisotropy in their strength properties. the main purpose of this paper is to model the soil stratum with anisotropy consideration and spatially varying undrained shear strength by using random field theory coupled with finite difference numerical analysis to evaluate their effect on the bearing capacity of the shallow foundations. in t...

The BI ( 比 )-structure, which highlights a contrasting characteristic between two items, is the key comparative sentence structure in Chinese. In this paper, we explore the methods of extracting the 6 constituents of the BI-structure. Previous studies are often restricted to probabilistic classification methods, where the feature used hardly embodies linguistic knowledge, therefore unintuitive....

This paper describes UAIC’s Question Answering systems participating in the ResPubliQA 2010 competition, designed to answer questions on a juridical corpora in Romanian, English and French monolingual tasks. Our systems adhere to the classical architecture of a Question Answering system, with an emphasis on simplicity and real time answers: only shallow parsing was used for question processing,...

This paper focuses on the automated extraction of concrete entities from a specialized-domain corpus. Then, in a bootstrapping phase, the candidates are used to extract new candidates. Concrete entities are automatically identified by a set of spatial features. In a spatial scene something is located by virtue of the spatial properties associated with a reference object. The axial properties ar...

The study of extraordinary performance has been carried out almost independently in two research traditions, the first emphasising practice and the second emphasising talent. The practice tradition has collected empirical evidence strongly supporting chunking as a key learning mechanism and practice as a prerequisite for becoming an expert. The talent tradition has provided convincing data for ...

This paper introduces a new approach to morpho-syntactic analysis through Humor 99 (High-speed Unification Mo.rphology), a reversible and unification-based morphological analyzer which has already been integrated with a variety of industrial applications. Humor 99 successfully copes with problems of agglutinative (e.g. Hungarian, Turkish, Estonian) and other (highly) inflectional languages (e.g...

We show that uniication in certain extensions of shallow equational theories is decidable. Our extensions generalize the known classes of shallow or standard equational theories. In order to prove de-cidability of uniication in the extensions, a class of Horn clause sets called sorted shallow equational theories is introduced. This class is a natural extension of tree automata with equality con...

With the development of an ecological civilization gaining increasing attention in our country, analysis environmental and economic impacts all aspects life has been developed gradually. However, because study on benefits tailwater diversion project is a weak link, discussion novel. The variable fuzzy evaluation model used to evaluate comprehensive engineering, order facilitate exploration appl...

Most artificial river wave technologies require a drop in the riverbed to generate recreational surf waves; herein new technology is introduced that can be used on flat bed. The mechanism includes an adjustable ramp, transition and kicker, which independently manipulated wave. A 3-D numerical model of described developed based prototype Kananaskis River Alberta, Canada, calibrated by means phys...