Description of the LTG system used for MUC-7

The basic building blocks in our muc system are reusable text handling tools which wehave been developing and using for a number of years at the Language Technology Group. They are modular tools with stream input/output; each tooldoesavery speci c job, but can be combined with other tools in a unix pipeline. Di erent combinations of the same tools can thus be used in a pipeline for completing di erent tasks. Our architecture imposes an additional constraint on the input/output streams: they should have a common syntactic format. For this common format we chose eXtensible Markup Language (xml). xml is an o cial, simpli ed version of Standard Generalised Markup Language (sgml), simpli ed to make processing easier [3]. Wewere involved in the developmentofthexml standard, building on our expertise in the design of our own Normalised sgml (nsl) and nsl tool lt nsl [10], and our xml tool lt xml [11]. A detailed comparison of this sgml-oriented architecture with more traditional data-base oriented architectures can be found in [9]. A tool in our architecture is thus a piece of software which uses an api for all its access to xml and sgml data and performs a particular task: exploiting markup which has previously been added by other tools, removing markup, or adding new markup to the stream(s) without destroying the previously adde

Seeing Behind the Camera: Identifying the Authorship of a Photograph

We introduce the novel problem of identifying the photographer behind a photograph. To explore the feasibility of current computer vision techniques to address this problem, we created a new dataset of over 180,000 images taken by 41 well-known photographers. Using this dataset, we examined the effectiveness of a variety of features (low and high-level, including CNN features) at identifying the photographer. We also trained a new deep convolutional neural network for this task. Our results show that high-level features greatly outperform low-level features. We provide qualitative results using these learned models that give insight into our method's ability to distinguish between photographers, and allow us to draw interesting conclusions about what specific photographers shoot. We also demonstrate two applications of our method.Comment: Dataset downloadable at http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~chris/photographer To Appear in CVPR 201

Value Gaps in the Planetary Matrix of the World Community as a Limitrophe of War and Peace

The article describes the problem of spontaneous transformation of the planetary matrix of the social world, moving from the cell to the network structure, resulting not only in the changes of the world system of the planetary community, the shapes of national states are melting out gradually, the need for cosmopolitan world perception and thinking of the political elite arises, the managing processes come into the picture, hybrid planetary policy is formed, and finally, qualitatively new conflict forms and even hybrid wars appear. With the change in the planetary matrix structure, there are several fundamental changes in the life-plan of a planetary human being, since the fundamentally different segments of archetypes are activated in the world community's subconsciousness, the values-semantic substrates are mixed in the consciousness, and completely different logical schemes and algorithms of influence on a person are activated in the noosphere. At the same time, this means that in the sphere of national powers the emphasis of state policy, state regulation and public administration tends to shift from the territorial horizon into the plane of regulation of world planetary processes. This tendency also transfers the focus of their organizational efforts from the national and state levels to the political space of interstate and supra-state entities. The most intense points of relations between the actors of the modern integral process are the so-called limitrophes and frontiers