We present a search-based approach to automatic surface realization given a corpus of domain sentences. Using heuristic search based on a statistical language model and a structure we introduce called an inheritance table we overgenerate a set of complete syntactic-semantic trees that are consistent with the given semantic structure and have high likelihood relative to the language model. These...

An effective field theory with hadrons and photons is constructed, where the hadronic parameters are determined by fitting elastic πN scattering data. The predicted pioninduced η-production on the nucleon agrees well with the data. The hadronic model is then used to describe the final-state interaction in photoinduced processes. We present a consistent description of pion photoproduction in the...

This paper describes the linguistic part of a system called PROVERB, which transforms, abstracts, and verbalizes machine-found proofs into formated texts. Linguistically, the architecture of PROVERB follows most application oriented systems, and is a pipe-lined control of three components. Its macroplanner linearizes a proof and plans mediating communicative acts by employing a combination of h...

This paper describes Acorn, a sentence planner and surface realizer for dialogue systems. Improvements to previous stochastic word-forest based approaches are described, countering recent criticism of this class of algorithms for their slow speed. An evaluation of the approach with semantic input shows runtimes of a fraction of a second and presents results that suggest it is also portable acro...

The evolution of the job market has resulted in traditional methods of recruitment becoming insu cient. As it is now necessary to handle volumes of information (mostly in the form of free text) that are impossible to process manually, an analysis and assisted categorization are essential to address this issue. In this paper, we present a combination of the E-Gen and Cortex systems. E-Gen aims t...

Building a complete virtual human application from scratch is a daunting task, and it makes sense to rely on existing platforms for behavior generation. When building such an interactive application, one needs to be able to adapt and extend the capabilities of the virtual human offered by the platform, without having to make invasive modifications to the platform itself. This paper describes ho...

∗Research (partially) supported by Hungarian National Foundation for Scientific Research, grant nos. K68398, K75016, FP7 IEF grant GEOSUMSETS. ∗∗Research (par-

This paper examines how the difference in institutional environments constitutes differential IPO underpricing across countries. Using the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom (IEF) as a proxy for the heterogeneous institutional environment, and a sample of 3728 IPOs from 22 countries and regions over the period 1993–2014, we find that countries with higher economic freedom have sign...

this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different levels of calcium (ca) and phosphorus (p) on performance native hens of khorasan province. a total of 400 native hens from khorasan station were used in a completely randomized design (factorial experiment) with 8 treatments, 5 replicates and 10 hens in each replicate of  age 26 to 50 weeks. eight experimental diets based on cor...