... bond demand ch an ges over time, andthe governmen t tries to accommodate ch anges in demand. This would be consis-ten t with a debt management policy th at tries to tak e advan tag e of in terest ... amount of TIPS outstanding relative to U S government TIPS, notes and bondsoutstanding .9The face value of TIPS outstanding available in the data is the originalface va lue at issuance times ... bond risk premia and their components in order to betterunderstand the economic significance of bond return predictability. Specifically, w eno w compare the means and variances of predicted excess...
... Department of Economics Clemson University October, 2007 Film plays an important role in the American political system, and forms an important branch of the mass media. I analyze ... L. Jackson Diane Lane Andie MacDowell David Morse Thomas Jane Nathan Lane William H. Macy Viggo Mortensen Allison Janney Jessica Lange John Madden Emily Mortimer Famke Janssen Anthony LaPaglia ... Kattan Juliette Lewis Mary McCormack Paul Newman Philip Kaufman Jet Li Dylan McDermott Thandie Newton Diane Keaton Matthew Lillard Ian McDiarmid Andrew Niccol Michael Keaton Doug Liman Frances...
... modeladaptation: review and perspectives. Speech Commu-nication, 42:93–108.Stanley Chen and Joshua Goodman. 1998. An Empirical Study of Smoothing Techniques for Language Model-ing. Technical ... range of techniques, from interpolation at either the countlevel or the model level (Bacchiani and Roark, 2003;Bacchiani et al., 2006) to using explicit models of syntax or semantics. Hsu and ... each of twenty pairs of corpora, with each corpus contain-ing 240M trigram tokens between train and test. Thecorpus pairs were chosen to span varying numbers of newswire sources and lengths of...
... Sum-marization, Edmonton, Canada.V. Khandelwal, R. Gupta, and J. Allan. 2001. An Evaluation Corpus for Temporal Summarization.In Proceedings of the First International Confer-ence on Human Language Technology ... On theother hand, all baselines improve, and some of them(SentenceSim precision and perplexity) give betterresults than both ROUGE and NICOS. Of course, no reliable conclusion can be obtainedfrom ... differ-ences suggest that TT and IE may need differentapproaches, both to the automatic generationof re-ports and to their evaluation. • The empirical comparison of candidate metricsto estimate...
... Thomason, and Johanna D. Moore. 1998. The Acceptance cycle: Anempirical inves- tigation of human-human collaborative dialogues. Submitted for publication. William M. Grove, Nancy C. Andreasen, ... acceptance and rejection in dialogue by default rules of inference. Language and Speech, 39(2). 329 tion and thus cannot count as a proposal to include it in the solution. The sofa A offers ... The Importance of Us. Stan- ford University Press. Marilyn A. Walker. 1993. Informational Redun- dancy and Resource Bounds in Dialogue. Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, December....
... for instance, facility size and turnover, measured in terms of number of employees and sales, respectively. Finally, the relevance of environmental impacts of any kind of pollution and a person ... empiri-cal analysis directed to the determinants of the use of specific types of abatement measures - principally because of the paucity of available data. On the basis of a unique facility-level data ... ZIEGLER, K. ANKELE, E. HOFFMANN, J. NILL, 2003. The Influence of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme on Environmental Innovtions and Com-petitiveness in Germany: An Analysis on...
... UPENN Chinese Treebank-4(CTB4). Wepresented anempirical study of Chinese chunk-ing on this corpus. First, we made an evaluation on the corpus to clarify the performance of state- of- the-art models ... listed as follows:• WORD: uni-gram and bi-grams of words in an n window.• POS: uni-gram and bi-grams of POS in an nwindow.• WORD+POS: Both the features of WORDand POS.where n is a predefined ... 21(4):543–565.Walter Daelemans, Jakub Zavrel, Ko van der Sloot,and Antal van den Bosch. 2004. Timbl: Tilburgmemory-based learner v5.1.James Hammerton, Miles Osborne, Susan Armstrong,and Walter Daelemans. 2002....
... descriptions of objects and processes from a knowledge base (Lester and Porter March 1997), text summaries of quantitative data (Robin and McKeown 1996), descriptions of plans (Young to appear) and ... argumentation in text generation. ” Journal of Pragmatics 24: 189-220. Infante, D. A. and A. S. Rancer (1982). “A Conceptualization and Measure of Argumentativeness.” Journal of Personality Assessment ... The arcs of the tree are weighted to represent the importance of the value ofan objective in contributing to the value of its parent in the tree (e.g., in Figure 1 location is more than twice...
... manner of manufacture and exclusions from patenting Australian patent law still uses the same language of ‘manner of manufacture’ as used in early English patent legislation: section 6 of ... size and duration of research grants; • the management of research enterprises and of research itself; • the need for creation of better career opportunities in the research sector; and • ... it would prevent patenting of vaccines and antibiotics and would create a flow on effect of hindering research and development of new technology in the medical and pharmaceutical fields.61...
... University.Chang, Roberto, and Andres Velasco, 1997, OFinancial Fragility and the Exchange RateRegimeg, Working Paper No. 16, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta., 1998, OFinancial Crises ... Public Officials and Their Institutional Nick Manning August 2000 C. NolanEnvironment: An Analytical Model for Ranjana Mukherjee 30030Assessing the Impact of Institutional Omer GokcekusChange ... crisisincreased their liquidity instead of expanding their loan portfolio (Ito and Pereira da Silva,1999).Inside the Crisis: An Empirical Analysis of Banking Systems in DistressbyAslh...
... bank wanted you totake?” responded that it wanted them not to pro-ceed. Only 3 FF2, 2 FF3, and 4 IE7 participantsanswered the same way.4.2.4 Impact of Reading and UnderstandingIn each of ... survey/sdata/200701/certca.html.[6] S. Egelman, L. F. Cranor, and J. Hong. You’ve beenwarned: anempirical study of the effectiveness of webbrowser phishing warnings. In Proceeding of the SIGCHIConference ... knowledge to the bank task.Finally, one participant first performed the bank taskand correctly answered “bank or other financial insti-tution.” However, when she saw the second page of the warning...