In this paper we briefly describe the evaluation architecture and the measures employed in HAREM, the first evaluation contest for named entity recognition in Portuguese. All programs are publically available for experimentation.

Recent work on information extraction has suggested that fast, interactive tools can be highly effective; however, creating a usable system is challenging, and few publically available tools exist. In this paper we present IKE, a new extraction tool that performs fast, interactive bootstrapping to develop high-quality extraction patterns for targeted relations. Central to IKE is the notion that...

In this paper we present the RWTH FSA toolkit – an efficient implementation of algorithms for creating and manipulating weighted finite-state automata. The toolkit has been designed using the principle of on-demand computation and offers a large range of widely used algorithms. To prove the superior efficiency of the toolkit, we compare the implementation to that of other publically available t...

JBeaver is a dependency parser built using the Maltparser machinelearning tool. It is publically available , easy to install and to use, and provides high precision. It also allows training Maltparser models for any language, so it can be used to train dependency parsers for any language.

Three (3) different methods (logistic regression, covariate shift and k-NN) were applied to five (5) internal datasets and one (1) external, publically available dataset where covariate shift existed. In all cases, k-NN's performance was inferior to either logistic regression or covariate shift. Surprisingly, there was no obvious advantage for using covariate shift to reweight the training data...

This document provides a comprehensive review of information and data relevant to the environmental risk assessment of Cry1Ac and presents a summary statement about the environmental safety of this protein. All sources of information reviewed herein were publically available and included: dossiers presented to regulatory authorities; decision summaries prepared by regulatory authorities; peer r...

The Star Formation Group at FCAD has begun to make use of the World Wide Web to explore the advantages of hypermedia presentations for the distribution of preprints, Ph. D. theses and observatory publications. As a byproduct of this work, a method for displaying subscripts (e.g. M , D) and superscripts (e.g. T, CO) has been developed. This set of bitmaps is publically available.