Fully-automated, high-quality MT systems can be developed only if a realistic way to treat meaning in natural languages is found. This paper analyzes a set of positions on the treatment of meaning in machine translation, which we consider the crucial point of difference among MT approaches. We present and criticize a chain of claims that is skeptical with respect to the prospects for meaning-ba...

Promising pathways for photoassociative formation of ultracold heteronuclear alkali metal dimers in their lowest rovibronic levels (denoted X(0,0)) are examined using high-quality ab initio calculations of potential energy curves currently available. A promising pathway for KRb, involving the resonant coupling of the 2(1)Pi and 1(1)Pi states just below the lowest excited asymptote (K(4s) + Rb(5...

About 1 out of every 6 children has been diagnosed with a special need in the United States. For their parents, the economic and emotional costs can be overwhelming. Using a mixed methods approach, we show that parents of children with special needs rely primarily on Facebook pages, Facebook groups, and Yahoo! groups for accessing information and social support. Specifically, these groups offer...

We report new results on the relatively novel task of automatic classification of blog author personality. Promisingly high classification accuracies have recently been reported for four important personality traits (Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness). But the blog corpus used in that work required careful preparation, and was consequently quite small (with less tha...

The construction of an integrative shuttle expression vector and potential utility was reported in Escherichia coli and Anabaena (Nostoc) sp. strain PCC 7120. The vector comprised of the following elements: (a) an intergenic non-coding region from Anabaena to facilitate its genomic integration (b) a strong functional PpsbAI promoter from Anabaena for desired gene expression and (c) neomycin pho...

—Massive Distributed Antenna System (DAS) with energy harvesting can promisingly satisfy the ever-growing wireless transmission requirements while providing sustainable power supply to the User Equipment (UE). In this paper, we propose a massive DAS with multiple-circle layout, where a large number of Remote Antenna Units (RAUs) are evenly distributed across these circles. Based on the instant...

This working note discusses the topic of story generation, with a view to identifying the knowledge required to understand aviation incident narratives (which have structural similarities to stories), following the premise that to understand aviation incidents, one should at least be able to generate examples of them. We give a brief overview of aviation incidents and their relation to stories,...

Applications which require a combination of structured data with unstructured text elds are becoming of increasing practical interest. But whereas structured data are usually stored in a relational database, large text collections are maintained by proprietary text or information retrieval systems. The synthesis of both areas is still a topic of intensive research. We describe one such applicat...

An exactly solvable model based on the topology of a protein native state is applied to identify bottlenecks and key sites for the folding of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) protease. The predicted sites are found to correlate well with clinical data on resistance to Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs. It has been observed that the effects of drug therapy are to induce mult...

The development of text classification techniques has been largely promoted in the past decade due to the increasing availability and widespread use of digital documents. Usually, the performance of text classification relies on the quality of categories and the accuracy of classifiers learned from samples. When training samples are unavailable or categories are unqualified, text classification...