INTRODUCTION. Adjectives such as tall get a high degree meaning when used in isolation. Thus, John is tall does not simply mean that John has (a certain) height, but rather that he is taller than average. This led Cresswell (1976) to argue that gradable adjectives are relations between individuals and degrees and to postulate the operator pos which binds the degree variable of the adjective whe...

The explicit introduction of morphosyntactic information into statistical machine translation approaches is receiving an important focus of attention. The current freely available Part of Speech (POS) taggers for the French language are based on a limited tagset which does not account for some flectional particularities. Moreover, there is a lack of a unified framework of training and evaluatio...

Pectic-Oligosaccharides (POS) have a growing potential in food and feed industries. To satisfy the demand of worldwide markets from POS and avoid the shortcomings of currently applied methodologies encountered in their preparation, the present study highlights a novel robust approach for POS biosynthesis. In the current approach, Aspergillus sp.section Flavi strain EGY1 DSM 101520 was grown on ...

Esta investigación tuvo como propósito analizar la percepción que tienen los empleados sobre distintas variables (tales género, generación, religión y nacionalidad) el Clima de aceptación diversidad (CAID), este con respecto a Percepción orientación sexual (POS). La información se recopiló mediante un cuestionario validado suministrado 509 trabajadores pertenecientes diferentes áreas negocios, ...

The aim was to assess the association of exposure to point-of-sale (POS) tobacco marketing with quit attempt and quit success in a prospective study of smokers in the United States. Data were collected via telephone-interview on exposure to POS tobacco marketing, sociodemographic and smoking-related variables from 999 smokers in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States. Exposure to POS tobacco mar...

The aim of our paper is to study the interest of part of speech (POS) tagging to improve speech recognition. We first evaluate the part of misrecognized words that can be corrected using POS information; the analysis of a short extract of French radio broadcast news shows that an absolute decrease of the word error rate by 1.1% can be expected. We also demonstrate quantitatively that traditiona...

Survival under stress, such as exposure to hypoxia, anoxia, freezing, dehydration, air exposure of water breathing organisms, and estivation, is commonly associated to enhanced endogenous antioxidants, a phenomenon coined "preparation for oxidative stress" (POS). The regulation of free radical metabolism seems to be crucial under these selective pressures, since this response is widespread amon...