Finding common ground: towards a surface realisation shared task

In many areas of NLP reuse of utility tools such as parsers and POS taggers is now common, but this is still rare in NLG. The subfield of surface realisation has perhaps come closest, but at present we still lack a basis on which different surface realisers could be compared, chiefly because of the wide variety of different input representations used by different realisers. This paper outlines an idea for a shared task in surface realisation, where inputs are provided in a common-ground representation formalism which participants map to the types of input required by their system. These inputs are derived from existing annotated corpora developed for language analysis (parsing etc.). Outputs (realisations) are evaluated by automatic comparison against the human-authored text in the corpora as well as by human assessors

Probing the Reionization History of the Universe using the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

The recent discovery of a Gunn--Peterson (GP) trough in the spectrum of the redshift 6.28 SDSS quasar has raised the tantalizing possibility that we have detected the reionization of the universe. However, a neutral fraction (of hydrogen) as small as 0.1% is sufficient to cause the GP trough, hence its detection alone cannot rule out reionization at a much earlier epoch. The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization anisotropy offers an alternative way to explore the dark age of the universe. We show that for most models constrained by the current CMB data and by the discovery of a GP trough (showing that reionization occurred at z > 6.3), MAP can detect the reionization signature in the polarization power spectrum. The expected 1-sigma error on the measurement of the electron optical depth is around 0.03 with a weak dependence on the value of that optical depth. Such a constraint on the optical depth will allow MAP to achieve a 1-sigma error on the amplitude of the primordial power spectrum of 6%. MAP with two years (Planck with one year) of observation can distinguish a model with 50% (6%) partial ionization between redshifts of 6.3 and 20 from a model in which hydrogen was completely neutral at redshifts greater than 6.3. Planck will be able to distinguish between different reionization histories even when they imply the same optical depth to electron scattering for the CMB photons.Comment: ApJ version. Added Figure 2 and reference

Developing a Community-Designed Healthy Urban Food System

Learning About Food in Urban Communities is a comprehensive guide with Extension resources for Food Production, Food & Business, Food & Family, and Food & Community. This publication emerged as part of a 2-year community-planning project. An interdisciplinary OSU team worked with the Weinland Park community, in the central Ohio University District, to explore how food could be a catalyst for urban neighborhood development

Prospectus, April 9, 1986

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Ambient Biobanking Solutions for Whole Blood Sampling, Transportation, and Extraction

Biobanking increases the rate at which precision medicine can be used to successfully refine currently existing medical treatment methodologies. The purpose of precision medicine is to increase a patient’s likelihood of defeating a chronic disease, by creating a unique and personal treatment method. However, the research necessary to develop precision medicine requires thousands of biospecimens, which is why biobanking is necessary to move precision medicine forward. Traditional biobanks are a library of preserved biological specimens, such as tissue and whole blood, that can be later accessed for further testing and analysis. Maintaining these types of biobanks is cumbersome and expensive, due to freezer care. Biobank samples are used to support therapeutic drug monitoring in clinical trials, epidemiology, public health screening, and biomarker discovery. Collecting samples for large translational studies requires making regular trips to the phlebotomist or a clinic, which is an inconvenience that is exacerbated when collecting samples in remote and/or resource-limited locations. Inconsistencies in sample collection can affect downstream clinical studies. Remedies for these procedural issues include the development of a medium that effectively preserves the samples at ambient temperature and developing a virtual biobanking system that allows for long-distance access to bioinformatic data of previously analyzed biospecimens

Prospectus, February 26, 1986

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Prospectus, September 25,1984

ARE WE MISSING OUT BY WAITING?; \u27Fan Fare\u27 gives various aspects of the arts and entertainment; PC Digest; Board adopts $16,761,087 budget; Staff profiles-Mark Matthews-Shirley Hubbard-Autobiographical; Interest in communications started early; Snowball keeps getting bigger and bigger; PC Happenings; Dental Clinic accepts new patients; Health series listed; EMT workshop planned; Messiah auditions will be held Sept. 29; Osteoporosis is seminar topic; The Writing Clinic is free for everyone; Ceramic artist at Parkland; Organizations Parkland Cobra may get \u27face lift\u27; Parkland Theatre season opens; Secretarial Review offered at Parkland in October; IOC has good attendence; Did you know...; Record enrollment in Chanute classes; Be a Parkland tour guide; Celebrate the Arts Week; Classifieds; Creative Corner...Especially for you!!; \u27Knik-knak\u27-It almost almost seemed feminine or was it his imaginiation?; Anniversary of Life Changes; \u27Doom Story\u27-What horrors await this faithful crew?; The Penny; The Sidewalk; War is Hell; Alcoholism and Drug Abuse-why do so many turn to an artificial stimulant for happiness?; Alcoholics Anonymous; New system more efficient; What is ABBA\u27s game plan? Will they go \u27On & On & On\u27; Jennings\u27 latest luke warm; Bid for treasures during auction for WILL; Music warms the heart; GiGi romances again; Chick offers diverse music; U of I Symphony begins season; Parkland presents \u27Wager\u27; Fast Freddy Contest; Pumphrey spikes boost Cobras over intimidated Moraine Valley; IM football begins; Golfers tie for 12th; Cobras win 4th Wesleyan wins in Decaturhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1984/1011/thumbnail.jp