In this paper, we introduce the task of identifying general and specific sentences in news articles. Given the novelty of the task, we explore the feasibility of using existing annotations of discourse relations as training data for a general/specific classifier. The classifier relies on several classes of features that capture lexical and syntactic information, as well as word specificity and ...

In the title molecular salt, C12H9N2 (+)·C6H2N3O8 (-), the cation and anion are connected by an N-H⋯O hydrogen bond. In the anion, an intra-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bond with an S(6) ring motif is observed. The planes of two of the nitro groups are approximately parallel to the plane of the benzene ring, making dihedral angles of 3.9 (2) and 15.3 (2)°, while the third nitro group is almost perp...

Navya-Nyāya (NN), a school of Indian logic and philosophy, has evolved a sophisticated language to deal with verbal cognition, logic and epistemology. This language is known for its use of long compounds, productive use of secondary derivational suffixes, and a special technical vocabulary. In this paper we present a specially designed domain specific splitter to split the NN compounds into its...

There are many contexts where the automated detection of near-duplicate images is important, for example the detection of copyright infringement or images of child abuse. There are many published methods for the detection of similar and near-duplicate images; however it is still uncommon for methods to be objectively compared with each other, probably because of a lack of any good framework in ...

background: adverse effect of sun rays mainly uv ray on the human eye documented and protection of eyes is necessary using different methods such as, sun glasses. sunglasses are designed in different colors. the aim of this study was evaluation of the effect of different colors of sunglasses on the visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, stereopsis and color vision. methods: 81 normal subjects wer...

Our submissions to the Crowdsourcing and Web tracks emphasized simplicity in either method, construction or both. Based on preliminary results, we found that if the number of relevance assessments is low, researchers may be better off “self-sourcing” the assessments, i.e. performing the relevance assessments themselves, rather than crowdsourcing the work. For the Crowdsourcing consensus task, w...

This paper proposes the use of the increasing numbers of Webbased user activity and personal information sources to enable the creation of more personal, adaptive and activity-sensitive information tools. We describe our initial steps at investigating this idea, including challenges surrounding integrating information from heterogeneous web data sources. This paper contributes an implementation...