Hong Kong – Does legal set-off exist?

Eugene Fung (Barrister, Hong Kong) considers the origins of legal set-off and the preservation of its status in Hong Kong. Published in the Letter from … section of Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

A Pattern Matching method for finding Noun and Proper Noun Translations from Noisy Parallel Corpora

We present a pattern matching method for compiling a bilingual lexicon of nouns and proper nouns from unaligned, noisy parallel texts of Asian/Indo-European language pairs. Tagging information of one language is used. Word frequency and position information for high and low frequency words are represented in two different vector forms for pattern matching. New anchor point finding and noise elimination techniques are introduced. We obtained a 73.1\% precision. We also show how the results can be used in the compilation of domain-specific noun phrases.Comment: 8 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript file. To appear in the Proceedings of the 33rd AC

The Glasgow Necropolis : theft, bribery and drunken gate keepers in a city of the dead

Wun Fung Chan is a geographer working at the University of Strathclyde. On visiting Glasgow City Archives he came across nine Necropolis Committee books containing some lively insights into Victorian landscapes of death

Position estimation of mobile robots based on coded infrared signal transmission

A system based on coded infrared signal transmission for the estimation of position of mobile robots in a structured environment is reported. Particular emphasis is placed on the polar coordinate arrangement in which signals are sent from the transmitters situated at the corners of the boundaries of operation. A multisensor system, strategically situated onboard the robot, has been found to improve the accuracy of the position estimation substantially. The information detected by the sensors is suitably processed to calculate the central position of the robot geometrically. The algorithms for the position calculations and the operational strategy are presented. This system forms the basis for the coordination and cooperation philosophy of multiple mobile robots sharing the same environment and performing cooperative or competitive tasks

Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary

We describe a method of using statistically-collected Chinese character groups from a corpus to augment a Chinese dictionary. The method is particularly useful for extracting domain-specific and regional words not readily available in machine-readable dictionaries. Output was evaluated both using human evaluators and against a previously available dictionary. We also evaluated performance improvement in automatic Chinese tokenization. Results show that our method outputs legitimate words, acronymic constructions, idioms, names and titles, as well as technical compounds, many of which were lacking from the original dictionary.Comment: 17 pages, uuencoded compressed PostScrip