This paper gives an overview of the current state of the Prague English Dependency Treebank project. It is an updated version of a draft text that was released along with a CD presenting the first 25% of the PDT-like version of the Penn Treebank – WSJ section (PEDT 1.0). Before the January 2009 release, the conversion from the original phrase structure trees into dependency trees as well as the...

The aim of the present contribution is to document, on the material of the Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT), that the assumed freedom of Czech word order is not really a freedom but that it is guided by certain principles, different from the grammatically given principles determining the word order in some other European languages such as English, German or French. After a short introductory se...

since, in the same vein as public spaces, urban green spaces play a significant role in establishing social interactions in the iranian cities, security concerns need to be taken more seriously in such places than other social environments, the insufficiency of which could diminish their functional capacity. this could in turn lead to a source of subsequent difficulties in urban spaces. therefo...

The aim of the paper is to investigate and propose Semantic Web approaches to improving the adaptation quality of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). These approaches are the method for semantic search for Web 2.0 tools in VLEs, and the method for curriculum mapping and semantic search for Learning Objects (LOs) in VLEs. In the paper, a special attention is paid to improving the adaptation ca...

this paper presents xml-based journal submission system (xml-based jss) α and β as one of the ricest tools for the ease of journal submission process by users. xml-based jss version β is a derivative version of the xml-based jss version α by improving the system from many aspects.   the reader will learn about ricest and isc, xml, and the method used in various versions of xml-based jss to subm...

public health management is a pillar of public health practice. only through effective management can research, theory, and scientific innovation be translated into successful public health action. with this in mind, the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) has developed an innovative program called improving public health management for action (impact) which aims to address th...

main purpose of the present research is to invent some tools for confirming hypotheses in analytic-reasoning researches. for this regard, the analytic research is used. the present tools, weighting to reasons tool (wrt) and repeat reasoning tool (rrt) are used for evaluating hypotheses of the current research. the results of the wrt shows that reasons weight (rw) for the first hypothesis is 8 a...

the steady growing innovations in the area of information and communication technology have raised new concepts and possibilities in different life aspects. in the field of further education and professional training, electronic learning and web-based education are perhaps the most prominent ones. proponents of this technology claim that e-learning courses are at least as effective as correspon...