A recently-proposed machine learning approach to reference resolution — the twin-candidate approach — has been shown to be more promising than the traditional single-candidate approach. This paper presents a pronoun interpretation system that extends the twin-candidate framework by (1) equipping it with the ability to identify non-referential pronouns, (2) training different models for handling...

We extend a number of results from one dimensional dynamics based on spectral properties of the Ruelle-Perron-Frobenius transfer operator to Anosov diffeomorphisms on compact manifolds. This allows to develop a direct operator approach to study ergodic properties of these maps. In particular, we show that it is possible to define Banach spaces on which the transfer operator is quasicompact. (In...

Let A and B be m n matrices. A linear operator T preserves the set of matrices on which the rank is additive if rank(A + B) = rank(A) + rank(B) implies that rank(T (A) + T(B)) = rankT (A) + rankT (B). We characterize the set of all linear operators which preserve the set of pairs of n n matrices on which the rank is additive.

We derive simplified formulas for analyzing the moment stability of stochastic parametrically forced linear systems. This analysis extends the results in [3], where, assuming the stochastic excitation is small, the stability of such systems was computed using a weighted sum of the extended power spectral density over the eigenvalues of the unperturbed operator. In this paper, we show how to con...

Decomposable mappings from the space of symmetric k-fold tensors over E, ⊗ s,k E, to the space of k-fold tensors over F , ⊗ s,k F , are those linear operators which map nonzero decomposable elements to nonzero decomposable elements. We prove that any decomposable mapping is induced by an injective linear operator between the spaces on which the tensors are defined. Moreover, if the decomposable...