Brief rules for reading Irish found in printed books, 1571-1863

This paper surveys short guides to reading Irish that appeared with Irish-language texts in printed books between 1571 and 1863. These brief rules are situated within the history of writing on Irish grammar and attention is drawn to the information on Irish phonology to be gleaned from them

Seacht bpearsain fhichead uair mé: a poem on the optative subjunctive in a copy of Irish Grammatical Tracts III-IV

An edition of a poem found in TCD MS H 2.17 with a discussion of the optative subjunctive in Old, Middle and especially Classical Modern Irish, and remarks on Irish Grammatical Tracts III-IV

Structural ambiguity and resumptive pronoun: the pragmatics of the transitive 'direct' and 'indirect' relatives in Modern Irish

Presents negative results arising from attempts to explain how ambiguous relative clauses in Modern Irish are understood, and argues that accessibility theory explains the distribution of resumptive pronouns in object relative clauses

Imtheacht an Dá Nónmhar agus Tóraigheacht Taise Taoibhghile: an Early Modern Irish exemplary tale

Argues that the fianaigheacht tale had an exemplary function. It was concerned with the relationships of vassals to their overlords and to one another and the proper place of the poet in society

Machine learning to optimize controlled experiments

Businesses use pre-sales questionnaires to quantify the value of incoming leads. Results from such questionnaires can improve allocations of sales resources and optimize advertising campaigns. A given questionnaire may ask for dozens of pieces of information from a prospective client. However, it is well understood that the questions are not always predictive of the likelihood that a client completes a purchase. This disclosure provides machine-learning techniques that discover the predictive ability of questions on a questionnaire. The techniques enable a business to select or design questions or experiments that correlate with the closure of a sale. The business benefits by improving lead quality and optimizing sales and advertising resources

Early Modern Irish miscellanea

Four studies mostly concerning Early Modern Irish language: (1) comparatio compendiaria; (2) a detail of vowel-shortening in hiatus; (3) the Bardic technical term 'áoi trasgartha'; (4) a rhyming example of 'dee' "gods"

METHOD FOR INTERPRETING CONVERSION PATH PERFORMANCE FROM UPPER-FUNNEL INTERACTIONS

A method for interpreting conversion path performance from upper-funnel interactions includes evaluating likelihood of conversion for each of several customers to whom content from the advertiser has been served based on existing conversion path data from both converting and/or non-converting users to a website. The method further includes generating a report for an advertiser indicating performance of campaign based on the evaluation of likelihood of conversion for users, updating data regarding likelihood of conversion based on further interactions of users, and optionally implementing one or more actions with respect to one or more groups of the users based on performance data

Why resumption? Resumptive pronouns in prepositional relative clauses [in Old, Middle and Early Modern Irish]

Argues that accessibility theory explains the distribution of resumptive pronouns in prepositional relative clauses in Old, Middle and Early Modern Irish

Transmission, metre and language: some observations on the poetry of Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe

This chapter seeks to establish the true corpus of extant poems by the famous thirteenth-century poet Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe; addresses some textual issues in the published edition; and studies linguistic and metrical variation in Mac Con Midhe's work as a contribution to understanding his superb artistry

ADVERTISING BASED ON DETERMINED INTENT ALONG CONVERSION PATH

An advertisement targeting system manages content and advertisements on a website. The system receives a request to place measurement units on a publisher website from a publisher. The system receives a request to purchase an inventory of measurement units from an advertiser to target content or advertisements on the advertiser’s destination website. Further, the system identifies an inventory of measurement units based on an association between the publisher websites with the measurement units and the destination website. Upon identifying the inventory of the measurement units, the system captures user behavior at the publisher websites with the inventory of the measurement units. Further, the system customizes content on the destination website for a user based on the captured user behavior