Human ratings are an important source for evaluating computational models that predict compositionality, but like many data sets of human semantic judgements, are often fraught with uncertainty and noise. However, despite their importance, to our knowledge there has been no extensive look at the effects of cleansing methods on human rating data. This paper assesses two standard cleansing approa...

Consider an i.i.d. sequence of random variables whose distribution f lies in one of a nested family of models (Mq)q∈N, Mq ⊂ Mq+1. The smallest index q such that Mq⋆ contains f is called the model order. We establish strong consistency of the penalized likelihood order estimator in a general setting with penalties of order η(q) log log n, where η(q) is a dimensional quantity. Moreover, such pena...

Several consistency notions for lower previsions (coherence, convexity, others) require that the suprema of certain gambles, having the meaning of gains, are non-negative. The limit situation that a gain supremum is zero is termed Weak Dutch Book (WDB). In the literature, the special case of WDBs with precise probabilities has mostly been analysed, and strict coherence has been proposed as a ra...

Usability is becoming an increasingly important design factor for web sites. However time and budget contstraints for web projects prevents the hiring of usability professionals to conduct tests that are costly and time consuming to perform. A number of automatic usability assessment tools have been developed most of which offer reports on a per-page basis. However, they fail to provide inter-p...

We provide a welfare analysis of early elections in a dynamic model of political competition with endogenous political blockades. Blockades arise if a party wins an election due to the support of voters with extreme policy preferences. We show that flexible election timing has the advantage that political blockades are overcome and political decisions are taken more frequently, but also the dis...

The present study attempted deriving and solving the falling- cylinder governing equations for power law model non-Newtonian fluids. Based on this theoretical study, a novel falling- cylinder rheometer (FCR) was designed and constructed to measure the Theological properties of non-Newtonian fluids. Different falling cylinders with predesigned densities were used to determine the apparent viscos...

Abstract: Over the last thirty years, numerous consistency conditions for replicated data have been proposed and implemented. Popular examples of such conditions include linearizability (or atomicity), sequential consistency, causal consistency, and eventual consistency. These consistency conditions are usually defined independently from the computing entities (nodes) that manipulate the replic...

We provide non-operational characterizations of Java memory consistency model (Java Consistency, or simply Java). The work is based on the operational definition of the Java memory consistency as given in the Java Language Specification [6]. We study the relation of Java memory behavior to that of some well known models, proving that Java is incomparable with PRAM Consistency and with both vari...

Sparsity or parsimony of statistical models is crucial for their proper interpretations, as in sciences and social sciences. Model selection is a commonly used method to find such models, but usually involves a computationally heavy combinatorial search. Lasso (Tibshirani, 1996) is now being used as a computationally feasible alternative to model selection. Therefore it is important to study La...