An exploratory study into automated précis grading

Automated writing evaluation is a popular research field, but the main focus has been on evaluating argumentative essays. In this paper, we consider a different genre, namely précis texts. A précis is a written text that provides a coherent summary of main points of a spoken or written text. We present a corpus of English précis texts which all received a grade assigned by a highly-experienced English language teacher and were subsequently annotated following an exhaustive error typology. With this corpus we trained a machine learning model which relies on a number of linguistic, automatic summarization and AWE features. Our results reveal that this model is able to predict the grade of précis texts with only a moderate error margin

SALSA: QoS-aware load balancing for autonomous service brokering

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The Utility of Legal Theory for the Adjudication of the Law

In this exposition is given a survey of points in which legal theory can be of direct utility for the judge who is in the excercise of his office. The conclusions will apply to any judge : civil, criminal, military and administrative

Basic Features of the Belgian Legal System.

One gives an outline of the presuppositions of Belgian lawyers on each of the levels epistomologie, methodologie, ideology. Together they form the paradigm of Belgian legal culture