Empirical studies on word representations

One of the most fundamental tasks in natural language processing is representing words with mathematical objects (such as vectors). The word representations, which are most often estimated from data, allow capturing the meaning of words. They enable comparing words according to their semantic similarity, and have been shown to work extremely well when included in complex real-world applications. A large part of our work deals with ways of estimating word representations directly from large quantities of text. Our methods exploit the idea that words which occur in similar contexts have a similar meaning. How we define the context is an important focus of our thesis. The context can consist of a number of words to the left and to the right of the word in question, but, as we show, obtaining context words via syntactic links (such as the link between the verb and its subject) often works better. We furthermore investigate word representations that accurately capture multiple meanings of a single word. We show that translation of a word in context contains information that can be used to disambiguate the meaning of that word

Court Order Regarding Deposition of Cynthia Cooper

Judge Suster found that the testimony of Cynthia Cooper is relevant to the administration of justice and that the State of Ohio may depose her

Memorandum Opinion Regarding Further Admission of Evidence of the Durkin Homicide

Plaintiff seeks to admit evidence of the Durkin homicide beyond what has already been offered for two purposes: primarily, Plaintiff contends that there are sufficient similarities between the Durkin and Sheppard homicides to cause the Durkin homicide to be admissible as proof of Richard Eberling\u27 s identity as the killer of Mrs. Sheppard. For the reasons set forth below, the State of Oho\u27s motion in limine to limit further evidence of the Durkin homicide is GRANTED

Memorandum Opinion Regarding Admission of Expert Testimony of Mr. James Wentzel and Dr. Owen Lovejoy

Memorandum opinion in response to the State’s request that James Wentzel be permitted to testify as to the following conclusions about the crime scene photographs and experimentations: 1. Autopsy photos of Richard Eberling and Marilyn Sheppard are not suitable for reliable skin print analysis. 2. Numerous blood stains can be located... on various items... believed to be in the home at the time of [Marilyn’s] death. 3. Blood stains on Dr. Sheppard’s watch are consistent with high velocity bloodstains, which would entail being close to a blood source at the time of Marilyn’s death. 4. The bloodstains on the pillow were from a bloody object--not a flashlight or smooth instrument--that was placed there at least an hour after Marilyn’s death. The court permitted Wentzel to testify about numbers 1 and 2, but not 3 and 4. The State also requested that Dr. Owen Lovejoy be permitted to testify about his experiments by striking a replication of Marilyn Sheppard’s skull with different instruments, including a flashlight. The court permitted Dr. Lovejoy to discuss his experiments, but not the typical use of a “vintage flashlight” in the 1950s

Court Order Regarding Deposition of Cynthia Cooper

Judge Suster found that the testimony of Cynthia Cooper is relevant to the administration of justice and that the State of Ohio may depose her

Order Regarding Further Admission of Evidence of the Durkin Homicide

The Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas granted the State of Ohio’s motion to exclude further admittance of evidence concerning the homicide of Ethel Durkin. Richard Eberling was convicted of murdering Durkin, and because Eberling was employed at the Sheppard home, the Sheppard Estate argued that Eberling might have been the killer. The Estate also requested that the court permit hearsay testimony from Dale Scheidler for its effect on Eberling’s credibility, but the court refused to rule on this request as Scheidler informed the court that he would not be available to testify