The existence of machine readable text makes possible the development of new techniques that assist the literary scholar in locating interesting passages of text. In this paper we explore in a preliminary manner the possibility of adapting techniques developed in the field of document retrieval to the full text context. As an alternative to the conventional Boolean logic based approaches, we co...

in recent years, considerable advances have been made in the field of regenerative medicine. unlikeembryonic stem cells, which pose the problems of ethical concerns and cause severe immunological reactions as well as neoplasma formation after transplantation, umbilical cord blood is a primitive source ofmesenchymal stem cells that covers the benefits of both embryonic and adult stem cells. it h...

This paper describes our participation to the Entrance Exams Task of CLEF 2015’s Question Answering Track. The goal is to answer multiple-choice questions on short texts. Our system first retrieves passages relevant to the question, through lexical expansion involving WordNet and word vectors. Then a tree edit model is used on graph representations of the passages and answer choices to extract ...

In the language modeling approach, feedback is often modeled as estimating an improved query model or relevance model based on a set of feedback documents [3, 1]. This is in line with the traditional way of doing relevance feedback – presenting the user with documents or passages for relevance judgment and then extracting terms from the judged documents or passages to improve a query model. Suc...

The data presented in this article is in relation to the research article "Vibration energy harvesting based monitoring of an operational bridge undergoing forced vibration and train passage" Cahill et al. (2018) [1]. The article provides data on the full-scale bridge testing using piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters on Pershagen Bridge, Sweden. The bridge is actively excited via a swept ...

Recently, we did some comparative evaluation of the commercial English-to-Japanese MT systems by using the TOEFL, Test of English as a Foreign Language. The passages in the Reading Comprehension part of the Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension section were extracted from a TOEFL guide book [1], and were translated into Japanese by using the MT systems. Then the translated tests were taken by th...

Organic gelling agents such as agar and agarose provide a heterotrophic substrate for growth of illuminated tobacco callus. When green cells are incubated in CO(2)-free air on a medium lacking sucrose but solidified with 1% agar, an increase in relative dry weight is sustained through two passages. Similar results with different inoculum sources, and with three brands of agar and two forms of a...