Multi-core architectures have become more popular due to better performance, reduced heat dissipation, power consumption and more efficient simultaneous processing of multi tasks. If one wishes to run a single application faster, then that application must be divided into sub programs, or threads, that cooperate to deliver the desired functionality. The Open MP programming paradigm implements l...

The TUNA Challenge was a set of three shared tasks at REG’08, all of which used data from the TUNA Corpus. The three tasks covered attribute selection for referring expressions (TUNA-AS), realisation (TUNA-R) and end-toend referring expression generation (TUNAREG). 8 teams submitted a total of 33 systems to the three tasks, with an additional submission to the Open Track. The evaluation used a ...

We consider the task allocation problem in open environments where providers have special interests for some tasks and consumers have some expectations w.r.t. the results they get. We propose Libra, a mediation mechanism that adapts online to the consumer and providers’ expectations. We implemented Libra and compared it to two important baseline methods for allocating tasks, namely Capacity bas...

We present an easy-to-use and fast toolkit, namely VnCoreNLP—a Java NLP annotation pipeline for Vietnamese. Our VnCoreNLP supports key natural language processing (NLP) tasks including word segmentation, part-of-speech (POS) tagging, named entity recognition (NER) and dependency parsing, and obtains state-of-the-art (SOTA) results for these tasks. We release VnCoreNLP to provide rich linguistic...

We studied developmental trends in 5 important reasoning tasks that are critical components of the operational definition of rational thinking. The tasks measured denominator neglect, belief bias, base rate sensitivity, resistance to framing, and the tendency toward otherside thinking. In addition to age, we examined 2 other individual difference domains that index cognitive sophistication: cog...

In this paper we describe our experience in conducting the first open sentiment analysis evaluations in Russian in 2011-2012. These initiatives took part within Russian Information Retrieval Seminar (ROMIP), which is an annual TREC-like competition in Russian. Several test and train collections were created for such tasks as sentiment classification in blogs and newswire, opinion retrieval. The...

background: dairy farming work involves frequent use of poor postures. these postures may increase the risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders among dairy workers. objective: to assess postural load during performance of various tasks related to dairy farming. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on a dairy farm in iran. in order to assess postural load, tasks related to dairy...

background: reproductive health is an important health topic. there are many challenges in reproductive health and it is necessary to train experts to manage them. the aim of this study was to define the tasks of master of science (msc) graduates in reproductive health through comprehensive needs assessment to establish the course. materials and methods: the study comprised of three steps. in t...

The ability to write effectively is becoming progressively important and instruction in writing is assuming an increasing role in second and foreign language education. Students’ writing abilities have been tested through various writing tasks. Independent tasks of writing or writing-only tasks have been utilized to test students’ writing ability; however, they have been criticized for their la...