English. This paper aims at filling the gap between the accuracy of Italian and English constituency parsing: firstly, we adapt the Bllip parser, i.e., the most accurate constituency parser for English, also known as Charniak parser, for Italian and trained it on the Turin University Treebank (TUT). Secondly, we design a parse reranker based on Support Vector Machines using tree kernels, where ...

In this work, we present a minimal neural model for constituency parsing based on independent scoring of labels and spans. We show that this model is not only compatible with classical dynamic programming techniques, but also admits a novel greedy top-down inference algorithm based on recursive partitioning of the input. We demonstrate empirically that both prediction schemes are competitive wi...

Tree-to-string systems (and their forestbased extensions) have gained steady popularity thanks to their simplicity and efficiency, but there is a major limitation: they are unable to guarantee the grammaticality of the output, which is explicitly modeled in string-to-tree systems via targetside syntax. We thus propose to combine the advantages of both, and present a novel constituency-to-depend...

We present a data-driven parser that derives both constituent structures and dependency structures, alone or in combination, in one and the same process. When trained and tested on data from the Swedish treebank Talbanken05, the parser achieves a labeled dependency accuracy of 82% and a labeled bracketing F-score of 75%.

Three additions are suggested to the study of interest groups and their role in a democracy. First, different types of interest groups are recognized; in particular, special interest groups, which have a narrow social base, concentrate on limited issues, and benefit mainly their own members, are distinguished from constituencyrepresenting organizations. which have a broad social base, address a...

Institutional configurations in multilevel states create tensions political decision-making processes resulting from constitutional decisions. Often, these decisions affect party competition, e.g., a member of the parliament (MP) may be legally bound to represent they constituency or entire territory yet elected regionally. In settings parties place their members additional positions thereby ga...

This study examined the community participation in constituency development catalyst fund Bahi District Council, Dodoma Region of Tanzania. The area was chosen because low nature programs among members. used a descriptive design and employed quantitative approach. A sample 76 stakeholders selected out 94 population through simple random sampling technique. structured questionnaire to collect in...

A long-standing challenge in cognitive science is how neurons could be capable of the flexible structured processing that is the hallmark of cognition. We present a spiking neural model that can be given an input sequence of words (a sentence) and produces a structured tree-like representation indicating the parts of speech it has identified and their relations to each other. While this system ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the factorial validity of the 5-factor model of sport organizational effectiveness developed by Papadimitriou and Taylor. This questionnaire has 33 items which assess five composite effectiveness dimensions pertinent to the operation of sport organizations: calibre of the board and external liaisons, interest in athletes, internal procedures, long term p...