The web provides a huge collection of web pages for researchers to study natural languages. However, processing web scale texts is not an easy task and needs many computational and linguistic resources. In this paper, we introduce two Chinese parts-of-speech tagged web-scale datasets and describe tools that make them easy to use for NLP applications. The first is a Chinese segmented and POS-tag...

Statistical machine translation, as well as other areas of human language processing, have recently pushed toward the use of large scale n-gram language models. This paper presents efficient algorithmic and architectural solutions which have been tested within the Moses decoder, an open source toolkit for statistical machine translation. Experiments are reported with a high performing baseline,...

Chitosan is a biopolymer that is being increasingly used in distinct areas such as pharmaceutical, biomedical, cosmetics, food industry and agriculture. Among the interesting biological activities that have been ascribed to chitosan, the antimicrobial activity is probably the one that generates the higher number of applications. Considering that feet present favorable conditions for microorgani...

New two nano- sized Schiff base complexes [M(L)], where L= 2, 2'-((1E, 1E')-(1, 2 phenylen bis (azanylylidene)) bis (methanylylidene)) bis (4-bromo phenolato) and M=Cu or Zn, (a, b complexes) were synthesized by ultrasonic irradiation. These complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, molar conductivity, FT-IR, fluorescence emission, 1H NMR, field emission scanning electron spectroscopy...