This paper presents a method for constructing a large-scale Person Ontology with category hierarchy from Wikipedia. We first extract Wikipedia category labels which represent person (hereafter, Wikipedia Person Category, WPC) by using a machine learning classifier. We then construct a WPC hierarchy by detecting is-a relations in the Wikipedia category network. We then extract the titles of Wiki...

In this chapter we propose a joint exploration of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Augmented Reality (AR). Thanks to some factors, we will detail hereafter, these two domains have greatly converged in recent years further to certain factors which we shall detail hereafter. We then outline applications combining GIS and a display technique using AR in order to identify the scientific issu...

Correlation of the Priestley-Taylor coefficient value, α, with air humidity and wind speed for obtaining evapotranspiration (ET) values similar to those by the Penman-Monteith equation maybe justified from a strictly utilitarian viewpoint in cases when wind measurements are lacking. However, by doing so, a conflict of scale arises, which leaves ample room for incorrect generalization about the ...

The microclimate of plant communities varied with energy balance, turbulent exchange and thermal status of the soil surface. Available net radiation is the balance between incoming and outgoing radiation which is the main source of energy in the earth system. The balance of energy at the earth’s surface is closely associated with the overlying atmospheric boundary layer (Roxy et al., 2014). The...

[1] A Bayesian approach was used to fit a conceptual transpiration model to half-hourly transpiration rates for a sugar maple (Acer saccharum) stand collected over a 5-month period and probabilistically estimate its parameter and prediction uncertainties. The model used the Penman-Monteith equation with the Jarvis model for canopy conductance. This deterministic model was extended by adding a n...

Incoming solar radiation derived from GOES-8 satellite observations, in combination with local meteorological measurements, were used to model evapotranspiration from a wetland. The wetland experiment was conducted in the Paynes Prairie Preserve, North Central Florida during a growing season characterized by significant convective activity. The satellite solar radiation measurements generally a...

In a preliminary investigation, Edwards and Thompson (2000; hereafter ET00) examined multiple sounding parameters related to supercell and tornado potential with a sample of 188 close proximity soundings derived from RUC-2 model hourly analyses. Building upon that initial work, we have expanded our sample to include 548 close proximity soundings associated with supercells, and a smaller set (75...

In this paper, we present our perspective on Model-Based User Interfaces (hereafter MBUI) paradigm and provide with our experience in this area combining high-level knowledge-based data models (i.e. ontologies) and reverse engineering processes to carry through a pragmatic MBUI vision. Our approach is based on using End-User Development (hereafter EUD) techniques (i.e. Programming by Example) t...

This position paper for the special session on "Multilingual Information Access" comprises of three parts. The first part reviews possible demands for Multilingual Information Access (hereafter, MLIA) on the Web, and examines required technical elements. Among those, we, in the second part, focus on Cross-Language Information Retrieval (hereafter, CLIR), particularly a scalable architecture whi...

The electron scattering region (ESR) is one of important ingredients in Seyfert nuclei because it makes possible to observe the hidden broad line region (hereafter HBLR) in some type 2 Seyfert nuclei (hereafter S2s). However, little is known about its physical and geometrical properties. Using the number ratio of S2s with and without HBLR, we investigate statistically where the ESR is in Seyfer...