The Implicit Association Test (IAT) examines the differential association of two object categories (e.g. flower and insect) with attribute categories (e.g. pleasant and unpleasant). When items from congruent categories (e.g. flower + pleasant) share a response key, performance is faster and more accurate than when items from incongruent categories (e.g. insect + pleasant) share a key. Performin...

Tagger Program that tags a word (w i) in a text with its part of speech (POS) tag t i. Precision Precision is the number of correct responses out of the total number of responses. Recall Recall is the number of correct responses out of the number correct in the key. Word Features Features of a word that are used in characterizing the type of entity it is (i.e. whether a word is capitalized, whe...

The effect of homonymity on children's use of semantic context to derive word meaning was examined in two studies. Participants were presented with stories that included three types of key words: nonsense words, familiar words used accurately, and homonymous words. Thirty-two preschoolers aged 3;7 to 5;4, 32 second graders aged 7;1 to 8;8, and 16 college students in Study 1 indicated the keys w...

OBJECTIVE DNA samples are often processed and sequenced in facilities external to the point of collection. These samples are routinely labeled with patient identifiers or pseudonyms, allowing for potential linkage to identity and private clinical information if intercepted during transmission. We present a cryptographic scheme to securely transmit externally generated sequence data which does n...

Sinhala, spoken in Sri Lanka as an official language, is one of the less privileged languages; still there are no established text input methods. As with many of the Asian languages, Sinhala also has a large set of characters, forcing us to develop an input method that involves a conversion process from a key sequence to a character/word. This paper proposes a novel word-based predictive text i...

article 1 of the european convention on human rights provides that the contracting parties shall secure to everyone ‘within their jurisdiction’ the rights and freedoms defined in the convention. at a technical level, the key question is how one should interpret the word ‘jurisdiction’ in article 1. this article plays a key role in the convention system since it sets out the limits on the obliga...

A novel nonsequential indexing mechanism (termed phonetic set indexing) has been evaluated for the purpose of fast word pre-selection. Our approach to handling the lexical access problem stems from the primary observation that the set of phones which are present in the transcription of a word is sparsely distributed across the vocabulary, and is thus suitable as an indexing key for retrieving a...

Key Ideas of our Solution • From statistics: control charts for change detection. • From computational linguistics: Analyze word cooccurrences for more meaningful results. • From mathematics: Exponentially weighted moving averages for streaming operation. • From databases: Hashing and Count-Min sketches for scalability to large data. • From data mining: Clustering of word pairs into simple “top...