5 Warranty claims reported in recent months might carry more up-to-date information than 6 those reported in earlier months. Using weighted maximum likelihood estimation for esti7 mating model parameters might therefore lead to better performance of warranty forecast8 ing models than maximum likelihood estimation. This paper examines this issue and also 9 presents comparison of the forecasting ...

Computational Argumentation has two main goals the detection and analysis of arguments on the one hand, and the synthesis of arguments on the other. Much attention has been given to the former, but considerably less to the latter. A key component in synthesizing arguments is the synthesis of claims. One way to do so is by employing argumentation mining to detect claims within an appropriate cor...

Setting limits for new particles or decay modes has been an active research area for many years. In high energy physics it received renewed interest with the unified method by Feldman and Cousins [1]. Giunti [2] and Roe and Woodroofe [3] gave variations of the unified method, trying to resolve an apparent anomaly when there are fewer events in the signal region than expected. They all discuss t...

(2) This property of discrete infinity characterizes EVERY human language; none consists of a finite set of sentences. The unchanged central goal of linguistic theory over the last fifty years has been and remains to give a precise, formal characterization of this property and then to explain how humans develop (or grow) and use discretely infinite linguistic systems. (Epstein and Hornstein 200...

In this paper we present a solution for “weaving the claim web”, i.e. the creation of knowledge networks via so-called claims stated in scientific publications created with the SALT (Semantically Annotated LTEX) framework. To attain this objective, we provide support for claim identification, evolved the appropriate ontologies and defined a claim citation and reference mechanism. We also descri...