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A Word Sense-Oriented User Interface for Interactive Multilingual Text Retrieval
In this paper we present an interface for supporting a user in an interactive cross-language search process using semantic classes. In order to enable users to access multilingual information, different problems have to be solved: disambiguating and translating the query words, as well as categorizing and presenting the results appropriately. Therefore, we first give a brief introduction to word sense disambiguation, cross-language text retrieval and document categorization and finally describe recent achievements of our research towards an interactive multilingual retrieval system. We focus especially on the problem of browsing and navigation of the different word senses in one source and possibly several target languages. In the last part of the paper, we discuss the developed user interface and its functionalities in more detail
Legacy Software Restructuring: Analyzing a Concrete Case
Software re-modularization is an old preoccupation of reverse engineering
research. The advantages of a well structured or modularized system are well
known. Yet after so much time and efforts, the field seems unable to come up
with solutions that make a clear difference in practice. Recently, some
researchers started to question whether some basic assumptions of the field
were not overrated. The main one consists in evaluating the
high-cohesion/low-coupling dogma with metrics of unknown relevance. In this
paper, we study a real structuring case (on the Eclipse platform) to try to
better understand if (some) existing metrics would have helped the software
engineers in the task. Results show that the cohesion and coupling metrics used
in the experiment did not behave as expected and would probably not have helped
the maintainers reach there goal. We also measured another possible
restructuring which is to decrease the number of cyclic dependencies between
modules. Again, the results did not meet expectations
Grid generation for the solution of partial differential equations
A general survey of grid generators is presented with a concern for understanding why grids are necessary, how they are applied, and how they are generated. After an examination of the need for meshes, the overall applications setting is established with a categorization of the various connectivity patterns. This is split between structured grids and unstructured meshes. Altogether, the categorization establishes the foundation upon which grid generation techniques are developed. The two primary categories are algebraic techniques and partial differential equation techniques. These are each split into basic parts, and accordingly are individually examined in some detail. In the process, the interrelations between the various parts are accented. From the established background in the primary techniques, consideration is shifted to the topic of interactive grid generation and then to adaptive meshes. The setting for adaptivity is established with a suitable means to monitor severe solution behavior. Adaptive grids are considered first and are followed by adaptive triangular meshes. Then the consideration shifts to the temporal coupling between grid generators and PDE-solvers. To conclude, a reflection upon the discussion, herein, is given
Privatization Methods and Productivity Effects in Romanian Industrial Enterprises
Comprehensive panel data on privatization transactions and labor productivity in Romanian industrial corporations are used to describe the post-privatization ownership structure, and to estimate the effect of Romania's diverse privatization policies on firm performance. The econometric results show consistently positive, highly significant effects of private ownership on labor productivity growth, the point estimates implying an increased 1.0 to 1.7 percentage growth for a 10 percent rise in private shareholding. The strongest estimated impacts are associated with sales to outside blockholders; insider transfers and mass privatization are estimated to have significantly smaller-although still positive-effects on firm performance.Romania, privatization, Earle, Telegdy, Upjohn
Adverse effects of Interbank funds on bank efficiency: evidence from Turkish banking sector
This paper investigates the relationship between interbank funds and efficiencies is for the commercial banks operating in Turkey between 2001-2006. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is executed to find the efficiency scores of the banks for each year, and fixed effects panel data regression is carried out, with the efficiency scores being the response variable. It is observed that interbank
funds (ratio) has negative effects on bank efficiency, while bank capitalization and loan ratio have positive, and profitability has insignificant effects. Our study serves as an illustrative evidence that interbank funds can have adverse effects in an emerging market
Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition
We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union. Employment growth displays substantial increase in heterogeneity during this transition period, with a corresponding rise in excess job reallocation. Unlike data for Soviet Russia in the 1980s, Ukrainian job reallocation in the 1990s was clearly productivity-enhancing, both within and across industries. The paper also estimates the effects of firm and market characteristics on the magnitude of reallocation and on the extent to which it has contributed to aggregate productivity growth.reallocation, post-Soviet, Ukraine, Russia, Earle, Upjohn Institute, Brown
Minor Loops in Major Folds: Enhancer-Promoter Looping, Chromatin Restructuring, and Their Association with Transcriptional Regulation and Disease.
The organization and folding of chromatin within the nucleus can determine the outcome of gene expression. Recent technological advancements have enabled us to study chromatin interactions in a genome-wide manner at high resolution. These studies have increased our understanding of the hierarchy and dynamics of chromatin domains that facilitate cognate enhancer-promoter looping, defining the transcriptional program of different cell types. In this review, we focus on vertebrate chromatin long-range interactions as they relate to transcriptional regulation. In addition, we describe how the alteration of boundaries that mark discrete regions in the genome with high interaction frequencies within them, called topological associated domains (TADs), could lead to various phenotypes, including human diseases, which we term as "TADopathies.
Analysis of Software Binaries for Reengineering-Driven Product Line Architecture\^aAn Industrial Case Study
This paper describes a method for the recovering of software architectures
from a set of similar (but unrelated) software products in binary form. One
intention is to drive refactoring into software product lines and combine
architecture recovery with run time binary analysis and existing clustering
methods. Using our runtime binary analysis, we create graphs that capture the
dependencies between different software parts. These are clustered into smaller
component graphs, that group software parts with high interactions into larger
entities. The component graphs serve as a basis for further software product
line work. In this paper, we concentrate on the analysis part of the method and
the graph clustering. We apply the graph clustering method to a real
application in the context of automation / robot configuration software tools.Comment: In Proceedings FMSPLE 2015, arXiv:1504.0301
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