This short paper aims at presenting a method for automatically extracting and evaluating MWE in the Europarl corpus. For this purpose we make use of mwetoolkit and utilize its output to find rules for the automatic evaluation of MWE. We then developed an XML parser to evaluate MWE candidates against those rules and also against online dictionaries. A sample of the results was manually evaluated...

We propose a method to search for illustrative sentences for English multiword expressions (MWEs) from a research paper database. We focus on syntactically flexible expressions such as “regard – as.” Traditionally, illustrative sentences that contain such expressions have been searched for by limiting the maximum number of words between the component words of the MWE. However, this method could...

Most of the research on the extraction of idiomatic multiword expressions (MWEs) focused on the acquisition of MWE types. In the present work we investigate whether a text instance of a potentially idiomatic MWE is actually used idiomatically in a given context or not. Inspired by the dataset provided by (Cook et al., 2008), we manually analysed 9,700 instances of potentially idiomatic preposit...

Effective management of a machine’s memory resources needs comprehensive information regarding the realtime memory consumption of applications. Memory demands can be estimated accurately by tracking the working set sizes of programs. We propose a software approach for monitoring the working set size of applications, based on Denning’s mathematical model of working sets. This technique is implem...

Concerns regarding the scalability of the inter-domain routing have encouraged researchers to start elaborating a more robust Internet architecture. While consensus on the exact form of the solution is yet to be found, the need for a semantic decoupling of a node’s location and identity is generally accepted as the only way forward. One of the most successful proposals to follow this guideline ...

The working environment is the special case of the non-natural environment created by man in which the increased production activity brings about the concentration of stimulators particularly aggressive to the human organism, such as chemical hazards, noise, vibration, extreme temperatures, and finally, intensified psychological and emotional stress. Depending on the nature and intensity, worki...

Safe programming languages offer safety and security features making them attractive for developing extensible environments on a wide variety of platforms, ranging from large servers all the way down to hand-held devices. Extensible environments facilitate dynamic hosting of a variety of potentially untrusted codes. This requires mechanisms to guarantee isolation among hosted applications and t...

Walking and biking to school can be an important part of a healthy lifestyle, yet most US children do not start their day with these activities. The Safe Routes to School Program in Marin County, California, is working to promote walking and biking to school. Using a multipronged approach, the program identifies and creates safe routes to schools and invites communitywide involvement. By its se...

Glass micromachining is a basic technology to achieve microfluidic networks for lab-on-a-chip applications. Among several methods to microstructure glass, the simplest and most widely applied is wet chemical etching (WE). However, accurate control of the reaction conditions to perform reproducible, fast and safe glass etching is not straightforward. Herein, microwave-assisted WE is demonstrated...