Certain optional phonological processes may apply to any number of the potential targets in a form, yielding outputs in which the process applies to a proper subset of the available loci. Such patterns are incompatible with OT-based frameworks that produce variation by providing multiple constraint rankings. While one ranking may favour exhaustive application and another no application, no rank...

Label ranking is considered as an efficient approach for object recognition, document classification, recommendation task, which has been widely studied in recent years. It aims to learn a mapping from instances to a ranking list over a finite set of predefined labels. Traditional solutions for label rankings cannot obtain satisfactory results by only utilizing labeled data and ignore large amo...

When are comparative statements credible? We show that simple complementarity conditions ensure that an expert with private information about multiple issues can credibly rank the issues for a decision maker. By restricting the expert’s ability to exaggerate, multidimensional cheap talk of this form permits communicationwhen it would not be credible in a single dimension. The communication gain...

We examine how to forecast after a recent break. We consider monitoring for change and then combining forecasts from models that do and do not use data before the change; and robust methods, namely rolling regressions, forecast averaging over different windows and exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) forecasting. We derive analytical results for the performance of the robust methods rel...

This study provides rankings of individual US dermatology residency programs based on a number of factors, including annual amount of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding received in 2014, number of publications by full-time faculty members in 2014, and number of faculty lectures given at 5 annual society meetings. The overall ranking of the top 20 US dermatology residency programs is gi...

The Social Book Search (SBS) Lab is part of CLEF 2015 lab series. This is the third time that the CYUT CSIE team attends the SBS track. Based on a full-text search engine, we build a social feature re-ranking system and introduce more knowledge on understanding the queries. We defined a set of rules to filtering out unnecessary books from the recommendation list. The official run results show t...

We describe a new WWW-based information system called Squirrel which demonstrates an attempt to integrate a relational database system (RDBS) with an information retrieval system (IRS) providing context based access to a SGML document collection. Indexing of the documents is performed on full-text basis whereas search capabilities include ranking of the retrieved documents. A functioning protot...

This paper presents a novel assay that allows a quick and robust assessment of the effects of biocides on the initial settling and establishment of marine photoautotrophic biofilms including the multitude of indigenous fouling organisms. Briefly, biofilms are established in the field, sampled, comminuted and re-settled on clean surfaces, after 72h chlorophyll a is measured as an integrating end...

The results of the ship ballast water treatment systems neutralization need to be verified in a transparent and trustful way before the ship enters a port. Some researches and results, explained in this article, confirm a need for a good verification. If there is no good methodology agreed, then it would not be accepted the solution that the BWMC (Ballast Water Management Convention) 2004 did p...

ListNet is a well-known listwise learning to rank model and has gained much attention in recent years. A particular problem of ListNet, however, is the high computation complexity in model training, mainly due to the large number of object permutations involved in computing the gradients. This paper proposes a stochastic ListNet approach which computes the gradient within a bounded permutation ...