When training hidden-Markov-model-based part-of-speech (PoS) taggers involved in machine translation systems in an unsupervised manner the use of target-language information has proven to give better results than the standard Baum-Welch algorithm. The target-language-driven training algorithm proceeds by translating every possible…

The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory proposes to continue its work on a group of closely interconnected projects, all bearing on questions about how to make computers able to use more sophisticated kinds of knowledge to solve difficult problems. This proposal explains…

In order to deal with the Ontology Change problem and considering an environment where Description Logics (DLs) are used to describe ontologies, the question of how to integrate distributed ontologies appears to be in touch with Belief Revision since DL…

In the last decade, advertising agency industry has experienced an enormous growth prompted by the structural and technological advances. According to The European Advertising and Media Forecast, from 1990 to 2000, in the assembly of the countries of the European…

1. Academic’s knowledge mobilization , 2. Formation of a Community of Practice
for a K-12 inter-institutional project, 3. K-12 schools participants and context, 4. Educational experiences from the research field, Conclusions

Within the context of globalisation, the diversification of learning contexts and the implementation of national and transnational policy measures concerning teacher education, teaching competences and lifelong learning, teacher identity has emerged as being problematic and paradoxical. Drawing on recent research…

Building off the work of Mark Granovetter and Nancy Howell Lee, this thesis observes the employment search networks of Princeton University seniors. I interviewed thirty-five students who were actively or had recently completed searches for employment and constructed visual representations…

In polyandrous species, sexual selection acts both before (precopulatory) and after
(postcopulatory) mating on traits that are important for reproductive success. Precopulatory traits
are important for mate acquisition and include weapons and ornaments. Postcopulatory traits
include components of sperm quantity…

Designed to provide an introductory grounding in Typography, The Complete Typographer teaches the essentials for the effective use of type - technical expertise and historical knowledge, an understanding of the functional and aesthetic qualities of different typefaces, and the organization…

This paper presents an analysis of the performance of the Coherent Pixel Technique for urban subsidence monitoring using TerraSAR-X data. Repeated observations for the period comprised between July 2008 and September 2009 have been used. For this purpose the city…