Active learning approaches reduce the annotation cost required by traditional supervised approaches to reach the same effectiveness by actively selecting informative instances during the learning phase. However, effectiveness and robustness of the learnt models are influenced by a number of factors. In this paper we investigate the factors that affect the effectiveness, more specifically in ter...

In this paper we present a framework for the effective management of terms and their variants that are automatically acquired from domain-specific texts. In our approach, the term variant recognition is incorporated in the automatic term retrieval process by taking into account orthographical, morphological, syntactic, lexico-semantic and pragmatic term variations. In particular, we address acr...

Arabic, which is the fifth world language with regard to the number of speakers, geographical spread, and socio-literary prestige (Weber, 1997), similar to all other languages whose orthographical system is not based on Latin symbols has been subject to various types of changes resulted from the language contact with English as the default language used in the computer mediated communication su...

This study was designed to examine the prevalence, cognitive profile, and home literacy experiences in subtypes of Spanish developmental dyslexia. The subtyping procedure used comparison with chronological-age-matched and reading-level controls on reaction times and accuracy responses to high-frequency words and pseudowords. Using regression-based procedures, 8 phonological dyslexics and 16 sur...

As the foundation of EDI, B2C and B2B, distributed computing is a key enabler for today’s enterprises and will become even more important with the advent of cloud computing on the one hand and an ever more agile work organization on the other hand. Whilst the rapid evolution of distributed computing technologies in the last three decades has delivered a rich set of platforms and paradigms for b...

Previous studies have identified potential sources of competing stimulus control in tests for stimulus equivalence. The present experiment employed the Nintendo Wii remote (Wiimote®) to investigate whether such competition would affect suboperant action dynamics (e.g., topographies of equivalence responses). Following one-to-many training on conditional discriminations sufficient to establish t...

We prove a general form of bit flip formula for the quantum Fourier transform on finite abelian groups and use it to encode some general CSS codes on these groups.

background: medication errors due to different reasons may alter the outcome of all patients, especially patients with drug poisoning. we introduce one of the most common type of medication error in the present article. case: a 48 year old woman with suspected organophosphate poisoning was died due to lethal medication error. unfortunately these types of errors are not rare and had some prevent...