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Acquiring Correct Knowledge for Natural Language Generation
Natural language generation (NLG) systems are computer software systems that
produce texts in English and other human languages, often from non-linguistic
input data. NLG systems, like most AI systems, need substantial amounts of
knowledge. However, our experience in two NLG projects suggests that it is
difficult to acquire correct knowledge for NLG systems; indeed, every knowledge
acquisition (KA) technique we tried had significant problems. In general terms,
these problems were due to the complexity, novelty, and poorly understood
nature of the tasks our systems attempted, and were worsened by the fact that
people write so differently. This meant in particular that corpus-based KA
approaches suffered because it was impossible to assemble a sizable corpus of
high-quality consistent manually written texts in our domains; and structured
expert-oriented KA techniques suffered because experts disagreed and because we
could not get enough information about special and unusual cases to build
robust systems. We believe that such problems are likely to affect many other
NLG systems as well. In the long term, we hope that new KA techniques may
emerge to help NLG system builders. In the shorter term, we believe that
understanding how individual KA techniques can fail, and using a mixture of
different KA techniques with different strengths and weaknesses, can help
developers acquire NLG knowledge that is mostly correct
Study to define unsteady flow fields and their statistical characteristics
Preliminary estimates of space shuttle fluctuating pressure environments were made based on analyses of wind tunnel data, and empirical prediction techniques. Particular emphasis was given to the external tank and solid rocket boosters for the transonic speed regime during launch of a parallel-burn space shuttle configuration. Predicted environments are presented as space-averaged zonal profiles with progressive shading from zone to zone to illustrate spatial variations in the magnitude of the fluctuating pressure coefficient over the surfaces of the external tank and solid rocket boosters. Predictions are provided for the transonic Mach number range from 0.8 equal to or less than M sub infinity equal to or less than 1.5, and for supersonic Mach numbers of 2.0 and 3.0
and Perelomov number coherent states: algebraic approach for general systems
We study some properties of the Perelomov number coherent states.
The Schr\"odinger's uncertainty relationship is evaluated for a position and
momentum-like operators (constructed from the Lie algebra generators) in these
number coherent states. It is shown that this relationship is minimized for the
standard coherent states. We obtain the time evolution of the number coherent
states by supposing that the Hamiltonian is proportional to the third generator
of the Lie algebra. Analogous results for the Perelomov
number coherent states are found. As examples, we compute the Perelomov
coherent states for the pseudoharmonic oscillator and the two-dimensional
isotropic harmonic oscillator
Direct Microlensing-Reverberation Observations of the Intrinsic magnetic Structure of AGN in Different Spectral States: A Tale of Two Quasars
We show how direct microlensing-reverberation analysis performed on two
well-known Quasars (Q2237 - The Einstein Cross and Q0957 - The Twin) can be
used to observe the inner structure of two quasars which are in significantly
different spectral states. These observations allow us to measure the detailed
internal structure of quasar Q2237 in a radio quiet high-soft state, and
compare it to quasar Q0957 in a radio loud low-hard state. We find that the
observed differences in the spectral states of these two quasars can be
understood as being due to the location of the inner radii of their accretion
disks relative to the co-rotation radii of rotating intrinsically magnetic
supermassive compact objects in the centers of these quasars.Comment: 26 page manuscript with 2 tables and 2 figures, submitted to
Astronomical Journa
Analysis of screeching in a cold flow jet experiment
The screech phenomenon observed in a one-sixtieth scale model space shuttle test of the solid rocket booster exhaust flow noise has been investigated. A critical review is given of the cold flow test data representative of Space Shuttle launch configurations to define those parameters which contribute to screech generation. An acoustic feedback mechanism is found to be responsible for the generation of screech. A simple equation which permits prediction of screech frequency in terms of basic testing parameters such as the jet exhaust Mach number and the separating distance from nozzle exit to the surface of model launch pad is presented and is found in good agreement with the test data. Finally, techniques are recommended to eliminate or reduce the screech
Probabilistic models of information retrieval based on measuring the divergence from randomness
We introduce and create a framework for deriving probabilistic models of Information Retrieval. The models are nonparametric models of IR obtained in the language model approach. We derive term-weighting models by measuring the divergence of the actual term distribution from that obtained under a random process. Among the random processes we study the binomial distribution and Bose--Einstein statistics. We define two types of term frequency normalization for tuning term weights in the document--query matching process. The first normalization assumes that documents have the same length and measures the information gain with the observed term once it has been accepted as a good descriptor of the observed document. The second normalization is related to the document length and to other statistics. These two normalization methods are applied to the basic models in succession to obtain weighting formulae. Results show that our framework produces different nonparametric models forming baseline alternatives to the standard tf-idf model
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Crystallization of calcite from amorphous calcium carbonate: earthworms show the way
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Structural and Electronic Properties of the Interface between the High-k oxide LaAlO3 and Si(001)
The structural and electronic properties of the LaAlO3/Si(001) interface are
determined using state-of-the-art electronic structure calculations. The atomic
structure differs from previous proposals, but is reminiscent of La adsorption
structures on silicon. A phase diagram of the interface stability is calculated
as a function of oxygen and Al chemical potentials. We find that an
electronically saturated interface is obtained only if dopant atoms segregate
to the interface. These findings raise serious doubts whether LaAlO3 can be
used as an epitaxial gate dielectric.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Multistep self-assembly of heteroleptic magnesium and sodium-magnesium benzamidinate complexes
Reaction of the magnesium bis-alkyl Mg(CH2SiMe3)(2) and the sodium amide NaHMDS (where HMDS = N(SiMe3)(2)) with benzonitrile yields the homometallic heteroleptic complex [PhC(NSiMe3)(2)Mg{mu-NC(CH2SiMe3)Ph}](2) (1). It appears that at least six independent reactions must have occurred in this one-pot reaction to arrive at this mixed benzamidinate ketimido product. Two benzonitrile solvated derivatives of Mg(CH2SiMe3)(2) (5a and 5b) have been synthesized, with 5a crystallographically characterized as a centrosymmetric (MgC)(2) cyclodimer. When, the components of 5a are allowed to react for longer, partial addition of the Mg-alkyl unit across the C N triple bond occurs to yield the trimeric species (Me3SiCH2)(2)Mg-3[mu-N=C(CH2SiMe3)Ph](4)center dot 2N CPh (6), with bridging ketimido groups and terminal alkyl groups. Finally, using the same starting materials as that which produced 1, but altering their order of addition, a magnesium bis-alkyl unit is inserted into the Na-N bonds of a benzamidinate species to yield a new sodium magnesiate complex, PhC(NSiMe3)(2)Mg(mu-CH2SiMe3)(2)Na center dot 2TMEDA (7). The formation of 7 represents a novel (insertion) route to mixed-metal species of this kind and is the first Such example to contain a bidentate terminal anion attached to the divalent metal center. All new species are characterized by H-1 and C-13 NMR spectroscopy and where appropriate by IR spectroscopy. The solid-state structures of complexes 1, 5a, and 7 have also been determined and are disclosed within
A study of beryllium and beryllium-lithium complexes in single crystal silicon
When beryllium is thermally diffused into silicon, it gives rise to acceptor levels 191 MeV and 145 meV above the valence band. Quenching and annealing studies indicate that the 145-MeV level is due to a more complex beryllium configuration than the 191-MeV level. When lithium is thermally diffused into a beryllium-doped silicon sample, it produces two acceptor levels at 106 MeV and 81 MeV. Quenching and annealing studies indicate that these levels are due to lithium forming a complex with the defects responsible for the 191-MeV and 145-MeV beryllium levels, respectively. Electrical measurements imply that the lithium impurity ions are physically close to the beryllium impurity atoms. The ground state of the 106-MeV beryllium level is split into two levels, presumably by internal strains. Tentative models are proposed
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