In this paper we present a system for translating named entities between different language pairs, using comparable corpora. We present the different experiments we have tried, where we have translated entities from Basque into Spanish, and from Spanish into English. The aim of this experiments is twofold: on the one hand, we want to validate the strategy we propose to translate Basque named en...

In this paper, we show three main results. First, we show that an n-gram dataset built from a large web crawl, as opposed to data from the specific target domain, can be used to perform the task of named entity recognition with reasonable accuracy. Second, we show that for complex domains, such as the MUC-7 NER task, the Lex method may not perform as well as other methods, due largely in part t...

Although future Medicare costs are highly uncertain, reasonable projections of those costs suggest a major financing problem. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 will provide temporary relief, although it introduced some new problems, including its geographic adjustment of Medicare+Choice rates. For the future we propose a premium-support system and an expanded benefits package. Such a system would...

T he Internet is a wonderful research tool. With the click of a mouse, you can beam yourself into what seems an infinite number of important lectures by eminent thinkers around the world. Just such an opportunity awaits if you search for Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at the University of California, berkeley. The results of such a search include a video of Professor Muller castigating...

Networking and security researchers must grapple with the following four potential constraints in the course of their work: (i) legal issues, (ii) institutional policies, (iii) community norms and (iv) personal ethics. These possible constraints can be intertwined and inform one another. In this position paper we set aside all except the third constraint: community norms. We do not mean to dimi...

Face frontalization is a rising technique for view-invariant face analysis. It enables a non-frontal facial image to recover its general facial appearances to frontal view. A few pioneering works have been proposed very recently. However, face frontalization with detailed facial expression recovering is still very challenging due to the non-linear relationships between head-pose and expression ...

Abstract We explore the properties of polynomial Lagrangians for chiral p -forms previously proposed by last named author, and in particular, provide a self-contained treatment symmetries equations motion that shows great economy simplicity this formalism. further use analogous techniques to construct democratic general where electric magnetic potentials appear on equal footing as explicit dyna...

Incomplete coronary artery revascularization could increase the risk of death, myocardial infarction, repeat revascularization, and lifestyle-limiting angina. Data to support this hypothesis extend back to the early 1980s, when patients with incomplete surgical revascularization had an absolute 15% reduction in 5-year survival in comparison with patients with complete revascularization.1,2 This...