As commonsense would have it, dogs, cats, elephants, dolphins, chimps, and many other species of nonhuman animals are minded creatures: they can feel hunger, thirst, fatigue, agitation, pain and pleasure; they can try or want to do things; they can be startled, surprised, puzzled, or scared by this or that; they can have more or less specific interests, wants, and expectations; and, though lang...

We present ongoing work that, for the first time, seeks to extract and attribute politicians’ quotations from Norwegian Bokmål newspapers. Our method – using a statistical dependency parser, a few regular expressions and a look-up table – gives modest recall (a best of .570) but very high precision (.978) and attribution accuracy (.987) for a restricted set of speaker names. We suggest that thi...

introduction: quoting an article in well-known textbooks is held as a credit for that paper. the numbers of iranian publications mentioned in endodontic textbooks have increased during recent years. the aim of this investigation was to evaluate the number of iranian articles quoted in eminent endodontic text books. methods and materials: three known textbooks ( ingle’s endodontics, seltzer and ...

Our last two columns have explored various techniques for using distributed callbacks to decouple clients and servers and create peer-to-peer relationships between the objects in a distributed system. We’ve shown various ways to eliminate the polling required by a stock application client. All these approaches center around direct or indirect callbacks from the Stock Quote Server. Like all engi...

We consider two mechanisms to procure differentiated goods: a request for quote and an English auction with bidding credits. In the request for quote, each seller submits a price and the inherent quality of his good. Then the buyer selects the seller who offers the greatest difference in quality and price. In the English auction with bidding credits, the buyer assigns a bidding credit to each s...

In this paper, we propose and address a novel task of recommending quotes for writing. Quote is short for quotation, which is the repetition of someone else’s statement or thoughts. It is a common case in our writing when we would like to cite someone’s statement, like a proverb or a statement by some famous people, to make our composition more elegant or convincing. However, sometimes we are s...

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