Contour segmentation is typically seen as the identification either of discondnuities'"? or of describable subsectionsIO operations which are usually treated as dual. As we are interested in providing primitive descriptions to higher processes we tend toward the latter view, though the algorithm reported here combines both approaches. Local segmentation operators are used to hypothesise discont...

In today’s globalized world, it is increasingly important for companies to gain knowledge about international markets and to understand the differences and similarities between international users. As a result, international user studies have become more common. However, they still pose a challenge for most companies. In this paper, we present the results of an empirical investigation of how co...

in which the various nodes and arcs are partitioned into "net spaces." These net spaces delimit the scopes of quantified variables, distinguish hypothetical and imaginary situations from reality, encode alternative worlds considered in planning, and focus attention at particular levels of detall.

Recognition of objects in highly structured surroundings is a challenging task, because the appearance of target objects changes due to fluctuations in their surroundings. This makes the problem highly context dependent. Due to the lack of knowledge about the target class, we also encounter a difficulty delimiting the non-target class. Hence, objects can neither be recognized by their similarit...

Through an analysis of the relationship between human resource management (HRM) systems and strategy types, predictions are made about a simultaneous horizontal and vertical fit. In a conceptual model for strategic HRM the key argument is, that the fit between firm strategy and HRM strategy is determined by (matching hypothesis) task characteristics of the strategy type and internally, consiste...

We construct a partially-ordered hierarchy of delimited control operators similar to those of the CPS hierarchy of Danvy and Filinski [5]. However, instead of relying on nested CPS translations, these operators are directly interpreted in linear logic extended with subexponentials (i.e., multiple pairs of ! and ?). We construct an independent proof theory for a fragment of this logic based on t...

The novice researcher, such as the graduate student, can be overwhelmed by the intricacies of the research methods employed in conducting a scholarly inquiry. As both a consumer and producer of research, it is essential to have a firm grasp on just what is entailed in producing legitimate, valid results and conclusions. The very large and growing number of diverse research approaches in current...

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We introduce SAPIENS, a platform for extracting quotations from news wires, associated with their author and context. The originality of SAPIENS is that it relies on a deep linguistic processing chain, which allows for extracting quotations with a wide coverage and an extended definition, including quotations which are only partially quotes-delimited verbatim transcripts. We describe the archit...

Chinese text segmentation is important in Chinese text indexing. Due to the lack of word delimiters in Chinese text, Chinese text segmentation is more difficult than English text segmentation. Besides, the segmentation ambiguities and the occurrences of out-of-vocabulary words (i.e. unknown words) are the major challenges in Chinese segmentation. Many research works dealing with the problem of ...