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One of the greatest contributions of Science and Technology Studies (STS), in the last 30 years, has been to show that the contours of science/technology and society are inextricably interwoven (Bloor [1976] 1991, Latour & Woolgar [1979] 1986; Knorr Cetina 1981; Shapin & Schaffer 1985; Latour 1987; Haraway 1991). These studies have highlighted that techno-scientific developments are path-depend...

In this paper, we study the problem of automatically segmenting written text into paragraphs. This is inherently a sequence labeling problem, however, previous approaches ignore this dependency. We propose a novel approach for automatic paragraph segmentation, namely training Semi-Markov models discriminatively using a Max-Margin method. This method allows us to model the sequential nature of t...

In the second paragraph of the print version of the article listed above, it was stated that George Bray worked at G.D. Searle, located in New York, NY. The location was Skokie, IL, a suburb of Chicago. In the sixth paragraph of the article, the authors believe they may have given Dr. Bray's bench research and his collaborations with David York, PhD less attention than they deserved. This parag...

This year we participated in the English monolingual paragraph selection task at ResPubliQA 2010. Our general strategy is to find the supporting word context from query and candidate passages during the paragraph selection. We use the techniques of state-of-the art publicly available question answering systems, i.e. Open Ephyra and JIRS, and the random projection implementation in the Semantic ...

Large multi paragraph speech databases encapsulate prosodic and contextual information beyond the sentence level which could be exploited to build natural sounding voices. This paper discusses our efforts on automatic building of synthetic voices from large multi-paragraph speech databases. We show that the primary issue of segmentation of large speech file could be addressed with modifications...

Are there some implementations of technology in the language classroom which lead to measurable advantages over others? Sturm and Golato (in press) found considerable variance on dictée tests within groups of students who practiced a list of accent-bearing target words by handwriting, typing using preprogrammed function keys, or typing using ALT+ numeric codes. These results contradict the resu...

We studied outlier document filtering (ODF) for extractive sentence summarization. Our results are superior compared to the average of the participant systems’ using DUC 2006. Furthermore, we add extractive paragraph summarization to the same system. It is surprising that the results are nearly the same for ROUGE metrics. Although extractive paragraph summarization has a better performance for ...

2.2.2 (a) (ii) – 172 In first paragraph, last line, replace 222 Ra with 224 RA. 2.2.2 (b) (ii) – 173 In last paragraph, line 9, replace: [The Working Group noted that four cases of lymphoid leukaemia were found among people treated with radium, consisting of one acute and three chronic dysplastic leukaemias.] with: [The Working Group noted that four cases of lymphoid leukaemia were found among ...