Learning Dynamic Classes of Events using Stacked Multilayer Perceptron Networks

People often use a web search engine to find information about events of interest, for example, sport competitions, political elections, festivals and entertainment news. In this paper, we study a problem of detecting event-related queries, which is the first step before selecting a suitable time-aware retrieval model. In general, event-related information needs can be observed in query streams through various temporal patterns of user search behavior, e.g., spiky peaks for popular events, and periodicities for repetitive events. However, it is also common that users search for non-popular events, which may not exhibit temporal variations in query streams, e.g., past events recently occurred, historical events triggered by anniversaries or similar events, and future events anticipated to happen. To address the challenge of detecting dynamic classes of events, we propose a novel deep learning model to classify a given query into a predetermined set of multiple event types. Our proposed model, a Stacked Multilayer Perceptron (S-MLP) network, consists of multilayer perceptron used as a basic learning unit. We assemble stacked units to further learn complex relationships between neutrons in successive layers. To evaluate our proposed model, we conduct experiments using real-world queries and a set of manually created ground truth. Preliminary results have shown that our proposed deep learning model outperforms the state-of-the-art classification models significantly.Comment: Neu-IR '16 SIGIR Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval, 6 pages, 4 figure

The Missionary Tidings, November 1963, Featuring Japan

Part of the November 1963 issue of The Missionary Tidings, the magazine of the Free Methodist Women\u27s Missionary Society. The issue includes multiple articles on the state of the Free Methodist Churches and missionaries in Japan, including the DeShazers. Jacob contributed an article on seeing multiple generations of Japanese come to Christ, while Florence contributed two articles, one on the DeShazer\u27s methods of evangelism in smaller towns and villages, and another on two Japanese churches celebrating 5 year anniversaries. A photo of some members of the DeShazer family witnessing in a Japanese village is featured on the cover

Reflections on Sexual Liberty and Equality: Through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall

This Essay uses the opportunity to examine Roe v. Wade forty years after it was decided and Lawrence v. Texas ten years after it was decided as a platform from which to analyze the status of the civil rights paradigm in American law. A comparison of the two decisions illustrates an important and new point about how civil rights law is deployed to achieve very different goals

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Review of sacred webs: the social lives and networks of Minnan protestants, 1840s–1920s, by Chris White

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