Interpretation of sugarcane field records can bc greatly improved by linking them to a Geographic Information System database, which allows trends to be mapped and queries to be performed. Linking a Geographic Information System to a crop or irrigation model allows simulation of crop yield and irrigation water use efficiency for each field, based on ficld informatton. The Arcview Geographic Inf...

The problems of recognizing mentions of entities in texts and linking them to unique knowledge base identifiers have received considerable attention in recent years. In this paper we present a probabilistic system based on undirected graphical models that jointly addresses both the entity recognition and the linking task. Our framework considers the span of mentions of entities as well as the c...

Populating existing knowledge base with new facts is important to keep the knowledge base fresh and most updated. Before importing new knowledge into the knowledge base, entity linking is required so that the entities in the new knowledge can be linked to the entities in the knowledge base. During this process, entity disambiguation is the most challenging task. There have been many studies on ...

This paper presents HITS’ system for monolingual and cross-lingual entity linking at TAC 2013. The system is an extended version of our last year’s joint entity disambiguation and clustering system based on Markov Logic Networks. We describe the new extensions and discuss the results. The results show that our approach is competitive across all three languages: with a micro-average accuracy of ...

Dynamic linking, as in Java and C#, allows users to execute the most recent versions of software without re-compilation or re-linking. Dynamic linking is guided by type names stored in the bytecode. In current dynamic linking schemes, these type names are hard-coded into the bytecode. Thus, the bytecode reflects the compilation environment that produced it. However, the compilation environment ...

Most prior work on entity linking has focused on linking name mentions found in third-person communication (e.g., news) to broad-coverage knowledge bases (e.g., Wikipedia). A restricted form of domain-specific entity linking has, however, been tried with email, linking mentions of people to specific email addresses. This paper introduces a new test collection for the task of linking mentions of...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a method for measuring the efficiency of peer decision making units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and outputs. The traditional DEA treats decision making units under evaluation as black boxes and calculates their efficiencies with first inputs and last outputs. This carries the notion of missing some intermediate measures in the process of changing the inputs to...

the aim of this study was to develop an extended-release tablet formulation using a new in situ cross-linking method. the effects of polyvalent cations on theophylline release from tablets made with the polyanionic polymers sodium alginate and sodium carboxymethylcellulose, were investigated. different miliequivalents of the di and tri-valent cation, ca2+ and al3+, were added to tablet formulat...

purpose: to evaluate densitometry of crystalline lens after cxl procedure in keratoconic patients. methods: in a quasi-experimental study three-dimensional lens densitometry was performed by pentacam scheimpflug camera at base line and 6 months later. subject group contained patients with diagnosed progressive keratoconus who underwent cxl surgery (n = 40). control group contained aged-matched ...