We report the results of experiments which prove that the analysis of relations between sentences increase the accuracy in the automatic detection of arguments in legal cases. We treat the search of arguments as a classification problem. Our corpus is a human­annotated and automatically­extracted test set from a collection of legal cases of the European Court of Human Rights. We obtain an incre...

A. We scrutinize the possibility of extending the result of [19] to the case of qdeformed oscillator for q real; for this we exploit the whole range of the deformation parameter as much as possible. We split the case into two depending on whether a solution of the commutation relation is bounded or not. Our leitmotif is subnormality. The deformation parameter q is reshaped and this is wh...

In this paper we give conditions on the internal wear process under which the resulting time-to-failure model will be of the simple collapsible form (Oakes, 1995, Duchesne and Lawless, 2000) when the usage accumulation history is available. We suppose that failure occurs when internal wear crosses a certain threshold and/or a traumatic event causes the item to fail (Cox, 1999 and Bagdonavi cius...

Abstract—In this paper, a theoretical investigation on the dynamic characteristics of one degree of freedom vibration system equipped with inerter of variable inertance, is presented. Differential equation of movement was solved under proper initial conditions in the case of free undamped/damped vibration, considered in the absence/presence of the inerter in the mechanical system. Influence of ...

The purpose of this note is to give an exposition of the best-known bound on the density of sets whose difference set contains no squares which was first derived by Pintz, Steiger and Szemerédi in [PSS88]. We show how their method can be brought in line with the modern view of the energy increment strategy employed in problems such as Szemerédi’s Theorem on arithmetic progressions, and explore ...

In this paper we tackle the challenging task of Multi-word term (MWT) extraction from different types of specialized corpora. Contrastive filtering of previously extracted MWTs results in a considerable increment of acquired domain specific terms.

We show how the resummation of large logarithms can be incorporated into the method of effective charges. As an example, we apply this approach to the event shape variables thrust and heavy-jet mass in ee annihilation. We find that, although the resummation creates problems with the behaviour of the effective charge in the 2-jet limit, smaller power corrections are required to fit the data comp...

This paper presents an overview of the Multilingual Question Answering evaluation campaigns which have been organized at CLEF (Cross Language Evaluation Forum) since 2003. Over the years, the competition has registered a steady increment in the number of participants and languages involved. In fact, from the original eight groups which participated in 2003 QA track, the number of competitors in...

We investigate the Arens products on the biduals of certain algebras of operators on nonreflexive Banach spaces. To be precise, we study the α-nuclear operators, where α is a tensor norm. This includes the approximable and nuclear operators, and we use these, together with the 2-nuclear operators, as motivating examples. The structure of the two topological centres of the bidual are studied, an...

To reveal the influence of the exchange interaction on the Josephson effect, the d.c. Josephson current in unconventional-superconductor / ferromagnet / unconventional-superconductor junctions is studied. When the two superconductors have d-wave symmetry, the Josephson current is drastically suppressed with the increase of the exchange interaction. On the other hand, when the two superconductor...