A model for the unsupervised segmentation and linguistic analysis of Arabic texts of Prophetic tradition (ḥadīṯs), SALAH, is proposed. The model automatically segments each text unit in a transmitter chain (isnād) and a text content (matn) and further analyses each segment according to two distinct pipelines: a set of regular expressions chunks transmitter chains in a graph labeled with the rel...

Text is ubiquitous in the artificial world and easily attainable when it comes to book title and author names. Using the images from the book cover set from the Stanford Mobile Visual Search dataset and additional book covers and metadata from openlibrary.org, we construct a large scale book cover retrieval dataset, complete with 100K distractor covers and title and author strings for each. Bec...

abstract irrigation planning and management requires continious monitoring and measurements of soil moisture content. application of gypsum blockes (gb) are common in soil moisture measurements. gb readings are subjected to its geometry and soil solution concentration. this study was carried on 90 gb in research greenhouse of faculty agricultural, ferdowsi university of mashhad. at the begining...

This paper describes preliminary work in exploring the relative effectiveness of speech versus text based tutoring. Most current tutorial dialogue systems are text based (Evens et al., 2001; Rose and Aleven, 2002; Zinn et al., 2002; Aleven et al., 2001; VanLehn et al., 2002). However, prior studies have shown considerable benefits of tutoring through spoken interactions (Lemke, 1990; Chi et al....

OBJECTIVES This service evaluation examines how efficiently an innovative, simple and interactive blood pressure (BP) management intervention improves BP control in general practice. DESIGN Prospective service evaluation. SETTING Ten volunteer general practitioner (GP) practices in Stoke on Trent, UK. PARTICIPANTS Practice staff identified 124 intervention patients and invited them to par...

This study focuses on of the use of animation to alert students to incoming messages and system updates in an online environment. It describes an experiment which compares an animationand a text-based interface in terms of how the students perceived the alerting system. Relationships between the number of interactions, performance, and perceived social presence are examined. The results indicat...

1. Simple labor supply models with correction for non-participation (PS #3) 2. Other approaches to kinked budget sets discretization 3. Dynamic labor supply introduction and overview Readings Thomas A. Mroz. “The Sensitivity of an Empirical Model of Married Women’s Hours of Work to Economic and Statistical Assumptions.” Econometrica, 55 (4) (July, 1987), pp. 765-799. Arthur van Soest "Structura...