The violin is a bowed, or a plucked instrument. In the first case, the amplitude is continually controlled by the bow, whereas in the latter case the amplitude follows a predefined envelope. Likewise, the pitch and different timbre dimensions can be analysed as being a function of the movement of the bow, and the fingers of the left hand. The result is a list of parameters and their possible va...

This paper describes the systems with which we participated in the task Sentiment Analysis in Twitter of SEMEVAL 2013 and specifically the Message Polarity Classification. We used a 2-stage pipeline approach employing a linear SVM classifier at each stage and several features including BOW features, POS based features and lexicon based features. We have also experimented with Naive Bayes classi...

The propagation of extragalactic jets is studied by a series of twelve axisymmetric hydrodynamic simulations. Motivated by observational constraints, but unlike most previous simulations, the regime of jet to external medium density (η) from 10 to 10 is explored, for Mach numbers (M) between 2.6 and 26. The computational domain contained the bow shocks for the whole simulation time. The bow sho...

Research within a larger, multi-faceted risk assessment project for the Intelligence Community (IC) combines Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning techniques to detect potentially malicious shifts in the semantic content of information either accessed or produced by insiders within an organization. Our hypothesis is that the use of fewer, more discriminative linguistic features...

We discuss the design of jet-driven, radiativeblast-wave experiments for a 10 kJ class pulsed laser facility. The astrophysical motivation is the fact that jets from Young Stellar Objects are typically radiative and that the resulting radiative bow shocks produce complex structure that is difficult to predict. To drive a radiative bow shock, the jet velocity must exceed the threshold for strong...

Recently, Bag of Visual Words (BoW) model has shown its success in image classification and retrieval. The key idea behind the BoW model is to quantize the continuous highdimensional space of image features (e.g. SIFT [1]) to a manageable visual codebook. The quality of the visual codebook has an important impact on BoW-based methods. Different from the existing techniques, such as Kernel codeb...