The present paper describes progress made on the building of a descriptive grammar of Russian with the complementary efforts of man and machine. Linguistic research at the Rand Corporation begins with the collection on punched cards of a large quantity of raw text from Russian physics journals. As described elsewhere in detail, a total of 250,000 running words of text is being processed, in cor...

We are concerned with a linear mean-square stability analysis of numerical methods applied to systems of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and, in particular, consider the θ-Maruyama and the θ-Milstein method in this context. We propose a technique, based on the vectorisation of matrices and the Kronecker product, to deal with the matrix expressions arising in this analysis and provide t...

nize and explain structural patterns in natural-language sentences (specifically English) and eventually yield an output in which the relations between the various items of the sentence are hierarchically displayed. The recognition of these structural patterns is made by means of a system of rules which operate on a sequence of words, i.e. a sentence, whose individual characteristics are pre-es...

The current study empirically investigates the relationships between the Dark Triad personality traits and cyber-aggression among adolescents (14–18 year old). The sample consisted of 324 participants aged 14–18 (M = 16.05, SD = 1.31). Participants completed the Short Dark Triad (SD3) as a measure of the Dark Triad personality traits, the Facebook Intensity Scale and a scale to measure cyber-ag...

Spoken monologues feature greater sentence length and structural complexity than do spoken dialogues. To achieve high parsing performance for spoken monologues, it could prove effective to simplify the structure by dividing a sentence into suitable language units. This paper proposes a method for dependency parsing of Japanese monologues based on sentence segmentation. In this method, the depen...

Although researchers have consistently demonstrated the importance of confidence in public institutions like the courts, relatively little attention has been paid to understanding what confidence itself really is. This article presents data from two samples of community members, thereby building on and extending a preliminary investigation that sought to understand constructs related to confide...

In the springs of 2000, the Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC) undertook a series of studies to investigate the potential of using a combination of technologies to extend log hauling operations during the traditional spring break-up period. During spring break-up, thin pavement roads are weakened, resulting in the application of government-imposed load restrictions to preve...

The role of self-efficacy in different task and organizational settings has largely been highlighted, especially in searching for information by web users. The current research was conducted to reemphasize the mentioned role and also to show possible relationship existing between the sense of self-efficacy and success in information searching. A survey was conducted in a sample of post-graduate...

Models of analog retrieval require a computationally cheap method of estimating similarity between a probe and the candidates in a large pool of memory items. The vector dot-product operation would be ideal for this purpose if it were possible to encode complex structures as vector representations in such a way that the superficial similarity of vector representations reflected underlying struc...