Migration and remittances receipt play an important role in the Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan with presumably substantial influence on the everyday social and economic life of many Kyrgyz people. Yet, the evidence on the impact of remittances on remaining household members is still thin. The focus of this study is on the impact of labor migration and remittances on measures of human capi...

This paper describes the aspect extraction system submitted by IHS R&D Belarus team at the SemEval-2014 shared task related to Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. Our system is based on IHS Goldfire linguistic processor and uses a rich set of lexical, syntactic and statistical features in CRF model. We participated in two domain-specific tasks – restaurants and laptops – with the same system train...

The paper compares different data fusion techniques in order to choose an appropriate technique for accurate urban mapping. Availability of high spatial resolution Ikonos and Quickbird imagery has made accurate mapping of urban areas more feasible. Though Ikonos multispectral images have a good spatial resolution of 4 m, it is often desirable to have an increased spatial resolution for a more a...

In this paper we present the results of our participation in the Task 1b of the 2015 CLEFeHealth challenge, whose goal was the identification of clinical entities of various types from medical texts in French and its normalization. We used the CRF-based system developed for disorder recognition in English and enhanced with French knowledge resources to recognize 10 types of clinic named entitie...

This paper examines Uganda’s progress on poverty reduction when poverty is measured in multiple dimensions. In particular, I consider poverty measures that are defined across household expenditures per capita or household assets, children’s health status, and in some cases, mother’s literacy. The comparisons are robust to the choice of poverty line, poverty measure, and sampling error. In gener...

This paper describes the system submitted by IHS-RD-Belarus team for the sentiment detection polarity subtask on Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis task at the SemEval 2016 workshop on semantic evaluation. We developed a system based on artificial neural network to detect the sentiment polarity of opinions. Evaluation on the test data set showed that our system achieved the F-score of 0.83 for res...

Poor rural households in Malawi often chose to supplement their income through additional casual work on other farms (“ganyu” labor). Based on data from the Second Integrated Household Survey for 2004, we explore the potential objectives and determinants of ganyu supply. We find a confirmation of the neoclassical theoretical hypothesis whereby households use ganyu as a consumption smoothing opt...

This article explores the uncertainty modelling and their different ways of visualizations for categorical spatial attributes. It shows how to model these attributes using procedures of indicator geostatistics. The geostatistical modelling uses as input a set of sample points of the categorical attribute that are transformed in indicator samples according the classes of interest. Experimental a...

Intensity-Hue-Saturation (IHS), Brovey Transform (BT), and Smoothing-FilterBased-Intensity Modulation (SFIM) algorithms were used to pansharpen GeoEye-1 imagery. The pansharpened images were then segmented in Berkeley Image Seg using a wide range of segmentation parameters, and the spatial and spectral accuracy of image segments was measured. We found that pansharpening algorithms that preserve...

The Kyrgyz Republic has enjoyed remarkable success in poverty reduction in recent years. Poverty headcounts were halved between 2005 (63.9%) and 2008 (31.3%), before they slightly increased again to 33.7% (2010). However, these aggregate figures mask individual or household trajectories into and out of poverty. Additionally, the question arises as to who has remained poor for an extended durati...