In this term paper I motivate and describe a monolingual term extraction method using the Ripper machine learning algorithm and linguistic and statistical features of n-grams extracted from a patent text corpus. The n-grams are labeled as terms or non-terms using a manually validated term list based on the same patent text corpus. The results for experiments conducted show promise for further r...

Word trees are a common way of representing frequency information obtained by analyzing natural language data. This article explores their usage and possibilities, and addresses the development of an application to visualize the relative frequencies of 2-grams and 3-grams in Google’s ”English One Million” corpus using a two-sided word tree and sparklines to show usage trends through time. It al...

We address the task of stress prediction as a sequence tagging problem. We present sequential models with averaged perceptron training for learning primary stress in Romanian words. We use character n-grams and syllable n-grams as features and we account for the consonant-vowel structure of the words. We show in this paper that Romanian stress is predictable, though not deterministic, by using ...

Yoghurt is a dairy product from the second fermentation of Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) as starter, namely Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus bulgaricus which live in symbiosis. acid bacteria are that capable producing lactic acid, hydrogen peroxide, antimicrobials other metabolic products have positive effect on health body at low environmental pH. Red dragon fruit (Hylocereus polyrhiz...

All sentences or passages quoted in this dissertation from other people's work have been specifically acknowledged by clear cross-referencing to author, work and page(s). Any illustrations which are not the work of the author of this dissertation have been used with the explicit permission of the originator and are specifically acknowledged. I understand that failure to do this amount to plagia...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) has been reported to provide anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects in both animal and man. Strenuous resistance exercise has the potential to induce both inflammation and oxidative stress. Using a pilot (proof of concept) study design, we determined the influence of MSM on markers of exercise recovery and performance in healthy men. MET...

ABSTRACT: Objective: To evaluate the usual consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPF) and its association with body mass index (BMI), physical activity (PA), age, sex in adults living Brasília City, Brazil. Methodology: A total 506 individuals aged ≥ 20 years old were interviewed. Dietary intake was assessed two non-consecutive 24-h food recalls. The distributions intakes energy amount UPF esti...

The retrieval of OCR degraded text using n-gram formulations within a probabilistic retrieval system is examined in this paper. Direct retrieval of documents using n-gram databases of 2 and 3-grams or 2, 3, 4 and 5-grams resulted in improved retrieval performance over standard (word based) queries on the same data when a level of 10 percent degradation or worse was achieved. A second method of ...

Understanding complex, dynamic scenes of real-world activities from low-level sensor data is of central importance for intelligent systems. The main difficulty lies in the fact that complex scenes are best described in high-level, logical formalisms, while sensor data usually consists of many low-level features. We first propose a method to obtain a logical representation of real-world, dynamic...