This paper discusses the performance of two data-driven translation methods for the translation of a very constrained sublanguage: dates. As a first result, we show that an example-based method is outperformed by a statistical method for the translation of dates from Chinese into English when small random training corpora are used: 750 random examples suffice to translate almost perfectly a cor...

The essential quality of information in a digital library is accessibility. Full text search is not enough for some collections, more can be done. Historical collections, for example, contain dates, and it would be useful to historians to be able to search by them. However, these dates occur anywhere within the text of historical documents, and to be searched they must be extracted from the doc...

The aim of the paper is to examine whether we can adapt Bent and van Hentenryck’s combination methods to our problem, and to determine how effective and significant the methods are. In particular, we develop four ways of applying Bent and Van Hentenryck’s consensus approach[3] to our problem. In addition, since we assume the uncertainty distribution is known, we propose a probabilistic sampling...

Tip-dating methods are becoming popular alternatives to traditional node calibration approaches for building time-scaled phylogenetic trees, but questions remain about their application to empirical datasets. We compared the performance of the most popular methods against a dated tree of fossil Canidae derived from previously published monographs. Using a canid morphology dataset, we performed ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the glycemic index (GI) and insulinemic index (II) of dates could be altered by Arabic coffee consumption. METHODS This randomized cross-over study was conducted at the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom from November 2009 to February 2010. Healthy subjects (5 males, 5 femal...

Aim at the identification of Lingwu dates in the natural environment, a method for image segmentation based on BP neural network was put forward. After compressing the collected images, color feature of dates was analyzed in color spaces to select apposite color spaces and their components for recognition. And finally,the BP neural network was used to identify Lingwu dates. Experimental results...

abstract the present study was aimed to investigate the planting dates effects on yield associated traits and also determining stability of the result of factor analysis and stepwise regression analysis in different planting dates of rapeseed genotypes at biekol agriculture research station during 2011-12 cropping season. result of split plot analysis exhibited significant genotypes effects for...

Reproductive synchrony tends to be widespread in diverse species of plants and animals, especially at higher latitudes. However, for long-lived mammals, birth dates for different individuals can vary by weeks within a population. A mother's birth timing can reveal useful information about her reproductive abilities and have important implications for the characteristics and survival of her offs...

Infectious pathogens are known for their rapid evolutionary rates with new mutations arising over days to weeks. The ability to rapidly recover whole genome sequences and analyze the spread and evolution of pathogens using genetic information and pathogen collection dates has lead to interest in real-time tracking of infectious transmission and outbreaks. However, the level of temporal resoluti...