For any retailer, managing information technology (IT) costs is fundamental. Successful retailing is increasingly dependent on technology-driven innovation, but that does not change the fact that resources are limited. Funding those innovations requires getting the most out of the infrastructure, including point-ofsale (POS) systems. At the same time, more and more is being expected of POS syst...

This article proposes a methodology to model dialogue acts (DA) from part-of-speech (POS) annotations in practical dialogues in Mexican Spanish. An example using empirical data is presented to illustrate this methodology. DA and POS annotations were obtained from DIME, a spoken dialogue corpus in which speakers perform tasks in a virtual environment on a collaborative basis. POS structure is a ...

Investigating the susceptibility of oestrogen receptor-positive (ER(pos)) normal human breast epithelial cells (HBECs) for clinical purposes or basic research awaits a proficient cell-based assay. Here we set out to identify markers for isolating ER(pos) cells and to expand what appear to be post-mitotic primary cells into exponentially growing cultures. We report a robust technique for isolati...

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Part Of Speech (POS) tagset has been prepared for the Indian Languages by the POS Tag Standardization Committee of Department of Information Technology (DIT), New Delhi, India. The BIS POS tagset aims to ensure standardization in the POS tagging of all the Indian Languages. It has been used for POS tagging in the Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI) pr...

Point-of-sale (POS) systems increasingly support more retail processes than just the basic cash functionality. But to what extent do they support chain digitisation, i.e., interorganisational processes as the exchange of order and sales information? We develop a two-dimensional maturity model for categorising POS systems by their level of backward and forward chain digitisation support. Both di...

The authors surveyed full-time retail employees and their supervisors to investigate relationships of supervisors' perceived organizational support (POS) with subordinates' perceptions of support from their supervisors (perceived supervisor support [PSS]), POS, and in-role and extra-role performance. The authors found that supervisors' POS was positively related to their subordinates' perceptio...

We address the problem of joint part-of-speech (POS) tagging and dependency parsing in Chinese. In Chinese, some POS tags are often hard to disambiguate without considering longrange syntactic information. Also, the traditional pipeline approach to POS tagging and dependency parsing may suffer from the problem of error propagation. In this paper, we propose the first incremental approach to the...

Retail industry Point of Sale (POS) computer systems are frequently targeted by hackers for credit/debit card data. Faced with increasing security threats, new security standards requiring encryption for card data storage and transmission were introduced making harvesting card data more difficult. Encryption can be circumvented by extracting unencrypted card data from the volatile memory of POS...

A part-of-speech (POS) tagged corpus was built on research abstracts in biomedical domain with the Penn Treebank scheme. As consistent annotation was difficult without domain-specific knowledge we made use of the existing term annotation of the GENIA corpus. A list of frequent terms annotated in the GENIA corpus was compiled and the POS of each constituent of those terms were determined with as...

Part-of-speech (POS) is an indispensable feature in dependency parsing. Current research usually models POS tagging and dependency parsing independently. This may suffer from error propagation problem. Our experiments show that parsing accuracy drops by about 6% when using automatic POS tags instead of gold ones. To solve this issue, this paper proposes a solution by jointly optimizing POS tagg...