Our participation at SemEval’s Multilingual All-Words Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking task is described. An English entity linking (EL) system is presented, which combines the annotations of four public open source EL services. The annotations are combined through a weighted voting scheme inspired on the ROVER method, which had not been previously tested on EL outputs. Results on the ta...

We implement removing micro-prosody with low-pass filtering and avoiding Unvoiced/Voiced (U/V) prediction as part of a hybrid approach to improve statistical excitation prediction in the hybrid approach to electrolaryngeal (EL) speech enhancement. An electrolarynx is a device that artificially generates excitation sounds to enable laryngectomees to produce EL speech. Although proficient larynge...

vibrio cholerae o1 are classified into two biotypes, classical and el tor based on susceptibility to bacteriophages and some biochemical properties, each encoding a biotype-specific genetic determinants. before 1961, most epidemics had been caused by the classical biotype. however, with the passage of time, the classical biotype missed from the scenario and the el tor emerged as the major bioty...

An English entity linking (EL) workflow is presented, which combines the annotations of five public open source EL services. The annotations are combined through a weighted voting scheme inspired by the ROVER method, which had not been previously tested on EL outputs. The combined results improved over each individual system’s results, as evaluated on four different golden sets.

The influence of explant nodal positions on the in vitro shoot growth and proliferation were studied in the two rose cvs. ‘Bianca’ and ‘El Torro’. Third, fourth and fifth nodal explants were cultured on the modified MS medium supplemented with 1.0 and 5.0 mg/l BA. In both the cultivars, higher rate of proliferation (‘Bianca’ 3.75; ‘El Torro’ 2.65) were obtained from the explants distal to the a...

In this paper we are interested in empirical likelihood (EL) as a method of estimation, and we address the following two problems: (1) selecting among various empirical discrepancies in an EL framework and (2) demonstrating that EL has a well-defined probabilistic interpretation that would justify its use in a Bayesian context. Using the large deviations approach, a Bayesian law of large number...

We develop an empirical likelihood (EL) inference on parameters in generalized estimating equations with nonignorably missing response data. We consider an exponential tilting model for the nonignorably missing mechanism, and propose modified estimating equations by imputing missing data through a kernel regression method. We establish some asymptotic properties of the EL estimators of the unkn...

Accelerated failure time (AFT) models are useful regression tools to study the association between a survival time and covariates. Semiparametric inference procedures have been proposed in an extensive literature. Among them, Fygenson and Ritov (1994) proposed an estimating equation which is monotone in the regression parameter and has some excellent properties. However, there exists a serious ...

El alineamiento entre la estrategia de negocio y las tecnologías de información (TI) es reconocido como uno de los principales problemas a los que se enfrentan los responsables de una organización. Pese a que han sido presentadas numerosas propuestas para alcanzar este objetivo, sigue siendo frecuente que las inversiones que se realizan en TI no reporten todas las ventajas que se esperan de ell...