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have been proposed, including unsupervised meth-ods. Many of these are based on the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm.There are alternatives to EM, and one such al-ternative is Viterbi EM, also called “hard” EM or“sparse” EM (Neal and Hinton, 1998). Insteadof using the parameters (which[r]

MTG (not in GCNF) where every production has alink of terminals on the RHS. Under such an MTG,the logic of word alignment is the one in Melamed(2003)’s Parser A, but without Compose inferences.The only other difference is that, instead of a singleitem, the Goal of word alignment is any set of itemst[r]

first round of sero-surveillance and sample collection. This training has already shown an impact with an increase in quality of sample collection and number of samples collected and submitted to the laboratory. The project has provided training and technology transfer of FMD diagnosti[r]

EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing 2003:13, 1317–1327c 2003 Hindawi Publishing CorporationA Novel High-Speed Configurable ViterbiDecoder for Broadband AccessMohammed BenaissaDepartment of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD[r]

ergy, and pitch were post-processed according tostylization procedures outlined in Sonmez et al.(1998) and normalized to account for variabilityacross speakers.Since the input vector can have missing val-ues such as the absence of pitch during unvoicedsound, only decision tree based classifier[r]

Our approach of exploiting parallel texts for word sense disambiguation consists of four steps: (1) parallel text alignment (2) manual selection of tar-get translations (3) training of WSD classifier (4) WSD of words in new contexts. Parallel Text Alignment In this step, parallel texts[r]

foundthat farmers of stone fruit trees (peachand plum) and persimmon trees will not prunetheir trees because they fear they will die. Ithas taken over 6 years and manydemonstrations to convince these farmers thattrees can be lopped, stumped or pruned withoutdying. Many farmers are not easily convinc[r]

 Formation of training posters which can be used on training days to facilitate deeper learning. Whilst all efforts were directed towards production of a high quality training DVD in January/February, final efforts are now being directed towards providing ancillary training<[r]

tails of) these methods. They are thoroughly described else-where, [18–24]. All we need to know is that the vector selec-tion algorithm used here, which by the way is ORMP, findsthe weights in a sparse representation.3. THE TEXTURE MODELTextures are often described by random models and statisti-cal p[r]

including prostate cancer. Here, we show that transient developmental exposure of rats to low, environmentally relevant doses ofbisphenol A or estradiol increases prostate gland susceptibility to adult-onset precancerous lesions and hormonal carcinogenesis. We found permanent alterations in the DNA[r]

evaluation and policy analysis of health and public health programs.Social and Behavioral Sciences● Concepts and methods of social and behavioral sciences relevant to the identication and solution of public health problems.Source: CEPH.org, Washington, DC; c2010 [CEPH accreditation criteria, 2005].[r]

if provided on software media, but only for internal/personal use and in accordancewith the license agreement under which the applicable software is licensed. Any copymade shall include the PTC copyright notice and any other proprietary notice providedby PTC. Training materials may not[r]

targeted in this paper (classifying images with target objectsoccupying most area of an image to correct categories). Wedefined the task as classifying target images into correctcategories (i.e., for ten categories dataset, it is ten-classclassification). The classifying process was carried out[r]

Aitao Chen, Yiping Zhou, Anne Zhang, and Gordon Sun.2005. Unigram language model for chinese wordsegmentation. In Proceedings of the fourth SIGHANworkshop, pages 138–141.Thomas Emerson. 2005. The second internationalchinese word segmentation bakeoff. In Proceedingsof the fourth SIGHAN worksho[r]

Hindawi Publishing CorporationEURASIP Journal on Image and Video ProcessingVolume 2011, Article ID 972961, 12 pagesdoi:10.1155/2011/972961Research Ar ticleBackground Subtraction via Robust Dictionary LearningCong Zhao,1Xiaogang Wang,1, 2and Wai-Kuen Cham11Depart ment of Electrical Engineering, The C[r]

© 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.10ChapterHuman Resource ManagementHuman Resource ManagementMcGraw-Hill © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.Learning ObjectivesAfter reading this chapter, you should be able to:zDetermine appropriate responses to major[r]

ATAC International Business Development Strategy 2012/2013 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Flight Training This is Phase 6 of the Flight Training GOA supported ATAC International Business Development Strategy (IBD) outreach to the International aviation community. The goal of the ATAC IBD is to p[r]

was selected by observing performance on a de-velopment set.We weighted the original WSJ hand anno-tated sentences equally with self-trained Med-line data. So, for example, McClosky et al.(2006a) found that the data from the hand-annotated WSJ data sh ou ld be considered atleast five times mor[r]

modulation/demodulation technologies such as PAM, PWM, PPM, PCM, Delta Modulation, ASK, FSK, and BPSK as well as spectrally efficient technologies such as QPSK, QAM, and ADSL. Advanced communications technolo-gies such as Spread Spectrum (direct sequence and fre-quency hopping) and CDMA are also cov[r]

consuming by big enterprises) is based on gas turbine plants (CFE web page), either working alone or in combined cycle power plants (and 8% produced directly by gas turbines) that offers an important roll in improving power plant efficiency with its corresponding gains in environmental performance ([r]