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Rapid Development of Morphological Descriptions for Full Language Processing Systems
I describe a compiler and development environment for feature-augmented
two-level morphology rules integrated into a full NLP system. The compiler is
optimized for a class of languages including many or most European ones, and
for rapid development and debugging of descriptions of new languages. The key
design decision is to compose morphophonological and morphosyntactic
information, but not the lexicon, when compiling the description. This results
in typical compilation times of about a minute, and has allowed a reasonably
full, feature-based description of French inflectional morphology to be
developed in about a month by a linguist new to the system.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX (2.09 preferred); eaclap.sty; Procs of Euro ACL-9
Changes and continuity in Japanese official development assistance : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology at Massey University
This paper is about Japanese official development assistance (ODA), based on document research and monitoring of media reports in the period between January and October, 2005. It analyses changes in this aspect of Japanese foreign policy since its inception in the 1950's with this analysis then used to predict what further change may be likely to result in the programme in the immediate future. Building on a conflict model of the Japanese state that treats the bureaucracy as a divided but powerful power centre, the paper argues that recent developments in Japanese society have led to a situation where the political wing of government and civil society have come to play a larger part in both the implementation of ODA and, to a lesser extent, the creation of aid policy. It concludes that the individual ministries of the bureaucracy are unlikely to transfer power to these groups without any resistance and that this resistance will hinder efforts to provide more political leadership of, and wider societal input into, the Japanese ODA programme
Training and Scaling Preference Functions for Disambiguation
We present an automatic method for weighting the contributions of preference
functions used in disambiguation. Initial scaling factors are derived as the
solution to a least-squares minimization problem, and improvements are then
made by hill-climbing. The method is applied to disambiguating sentences in the
ATIS (Air Travel Information System) corpus, and the performance of the
resulting scaling factors is compared with hand-tuned factors. We then focus on
one class of preference function, those based on semantic lexical collocations.
Experimental results are presented showing that such functions vary
considerably in selecting correct analyses. In particular we define a function
that performs significantly better than ones based on mutual information and
likelihood ratios of lexical associations.Comment: To appear in Computational Linguistics (probably volume 20, December
94). LaTeX, 21 page
Tusnady's inequality revisited
Tusnady's inequality is the key ingredient in the KMT/Hungarian coupling of
the empirical distribution function with a Brownian bridge. We present an
elementary proof of a result that sharpens the Tusnady inequality, modulo
constants. Our method uses the beta integral representation of Binomial tails,
simple Taylor expansion and some novel bounds for the ratios of normal tail
probabilities.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053604000000733 in the
Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Taku haumaru me te kurī - Te Reo Maori
Obtain a copy of the childrenās leaflet (about 5-6yrs) in English from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/968.
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Obtain a copy of the childrenās booklet (about 8-9yrs) in English from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/930.
Obtain a copy of the childrenās booklet (about 8-9yrs) in Te Reo Maori from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/984.
Obtain a copy of the parentsā/caregiversā booklet in English from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/931.
The Te Reo Maori version of the parentsā/caregiversā booklet will be available in 2009.This safety leaflet designed to target young children aged 5-6yrs will provide an age-appropriate understanding of how to avoid pet dog attacks which can injure, maim and even kill children. This research-based educational resource provides practical, valid and reliable guidelines for safe interaction between children and pet dogs in their homes or known to them.
The content of this leaflet has been drawn from āStories with happy endings: Preventing pet dog attacks on childrenā, the 2007-2008 Summer Scholarship report prepared for the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of New Zealand (CAPFNZ). Obtain a copy of the report from http://hdl.handle.net/10289/76
Taku haumaru me te kurÄ«: He aratohu mÅ te haumaru i waenga i te tamariki (8-9 pea ngÄ tau) me te kurÄ« - Te Reo Maori
Obtain a copy of the childrenās leaflet (about 5-6yrs) in English from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/968.
Obtain a copy of the childrenās leaflet (about 5-6yrs) in Te Reo Maori from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/975.
Obtain a copy of the childrenās booklet (about 8-9yrs) in English from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/930.
Obtain a copy of the childrenās booklet (about 8-9yrs) in Te Reo Maori from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/984.
Obtain a copy of the parentsā/caregiversā booklet in English from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/931.
The Te Reo Maori version of the parentsā/caregiversā booklet will be available in 2009.This safety booklet for older children (about 8-9yrs) will provide the best level of understanding of how to avoid pet dog attacks which can injure, maim and even kill children. This research-based educational resource provides practical, valid and reliable guidelines for safe interaction between children and pet dogs in their homes or known to them. The content of this booklet has been drawn from āStories with happy endings: Preventing pet dog attacks on childrenā, the 2007-2008 Summer Scholarship report prepared for the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of New Zealand (CAPFNZ). Obtain a copy of the report from http://hdl.handle.net/10289/76
Keeping our children safe around dogs: Guidelines for safe interaction between children and pet dogs - English
Obtain a copy of the childrenās leaflet (about 5-6yrs) in English from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/968.
Obtain a copy of the childrenās leaflet (about 5-6yrs) in Te Reo Maori from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/975.
Obtain a copy of the childrenās booklet (about 8-9yrs) in English from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/930.
Obtain a copy of the childrenās booklet (about 8-9yrs) in Te Reo Maori from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/984.
Obtain a copy of the parentsā/caregiversā booklet in English from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/931.
The Te Reo Maori version of the parentsā/caregiversā booklet will be available in 2009.This information booklet for parents and caregivers will provide the best level of understanding of how to avoid pet dog attacks which can injure, maim and even kill children. This research-based educational resource provides practical, valid and reliable guidelines for safe interaction between children and pet dogs in their homes or known to them. The content of this booklet has been drawn from āStories with happy endings: Preventing pet dog attacks on childrenā, the 2007-2008 Summer Scholarship report prepared for the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of New Zealand (CAPFNZ). Obtain a copy of the report from http://hdl.handle.net/10289/76
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