improving the interpretation of noun phrases

... of the prepo- sitions (especially of/ de) to the semantic classes adds to the complexity of the interpretation task. Thus, for the interpretation of these constructions a system must rely on the ... the contribution the features exemplified in one baseline and six versions of the SVM model. The baseline is defined only for the English part of the NP feature set and measures the the contribution of the ... EXPERIENCER, THEME, BENEFICIARY. Out of these instances, 74.81% use the preposition of. In CLUVI, 11.71% of the examples were ver- bal, from which the preposition of has a coverage of 82.20%. The many-to-many...

... may also need different types of care, depending on whether they are still in school or whether they are married. Indeed, the extent of sexual activity outside of marriage varies greatly. In ... not provide them with services, either because they be- lieve the centers cater exclusively to the needs of pregnant women, infants, and small chil- dren or because they think that the staff will discriminate ... more acceptable to young adults by improving the quality of existing health serv- ices, including making care more accessible. Improving the acceptability of health services has several important...

... “O”, which indicates a non-named entity. For 98.0% of the named entities in the training data of the shared task in the 2004 JNLPBA, the label of the preced- ing entity was “O”. In order to incorporate ... of semi-CRFs Since the purpose of the filtering is to reduce the computational cost, rather than to achieve a good F-score by itself, we chose the threshold probabil- ity of filtering so that the ... the upper bound length of entities, N is the length of sentence and K is the size of label set. And that of training in first order semi-CRFs is O(K 2 LN). The increase of the cost is used to transfer...

... the class “causal” for any of the examples. The largest class in our dataset is “participant”, which is the label for 43% of the examples; the smallest is “temporal”, which labels 9% of the ... accuracy of the algorithms on each of the con- ditions is illustrated below in Table 3. Since the largest class in the dataset accounts for 43% of the examples, the baseline accuracy for the task ... using all of the joining terms produced the best results. The SVM algorithm produced the best accuracy of all, achieving 50.1% accuracy using the com- bined set of joining terms. The less...

... syntactic knowledge about the translation of noun phrases. They constitute soft constraints that may be over- ruled by other components of the system. 5 Results As described in Section 3.1, we evaluate the per- formance ... translation provided by the sys- tem be part of an acceptable translation of the whole sentence? In other words, the noun phrase has to be translated correctly given the sentence context. The NP/PPs are ... judgments. The initial features are the logarithm of the probability scores that the model assigns to each candidate transla- tion: the language model score, the phrase transla- tion score and the reordering...

... finding emphasized the importance of an integrated system that would promote delivery of care to mothers and infants based on the level of acuity. The concept prompted the March of Dimes, in 1976, ... non- Hispanic white mothers to die in the first year of life (13.4 and 5.6 per 1,000 live births in 2006). 7 Toward Improving the Outcome of Pregnancy III marchofdimes.com History of the Quality ... relies on the World Health Organization defini- tion: The death of a woman while preg- nant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy,...

... a noun- noun similarity score, Seen(v d ) is the set of seen head words filling the slot v d during training, and C(v d , n) is the num- ber of times the noun n was seen filling the slot v d The ... implement. The Backoff Erk model is the best, using the Baseline for the majority of decisions and backing off to the Erk smoothing model when the Baseline cannot answer. Figure 5 (shown on the next ... a random noun from a frequency bucket similar to the original noun s frequency, and (3) select the nearest neighbor, the noun with frequency clos- est to the original. These methods evaluate the range...

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... impossible,toquantify. The variousentitiesthatmanagespecificAI/ANhealthdata setsoftenemploydifferingmethodsforcollecting,adjusting,anddistributingdata.A greatereffortisneededtocollaborateacrossagenciesandinstitutesthatare conductingresearchandcollectingdatainordertobeginaccuratelyportraying the true extent of Indianhealthdisparities.  Severalagencies,organizations,andinstitutionshaveexpressedarenewedinterestin comingtogethertobeginaconversationonhowthismightbeachieved.Accuratedata isnecessarytosupportassessmentandpolicydevelopmenttoimproveservicedelivery andhealthstatus of Indianpeople.Withoutpaintingamore thoroughpicture of Indian healthinWashingtontoday, the abilitytoplanorimproveservices,monitorquality, andanalyzecostsisseverelyimpaired.  Tribalgovernmentsmustbeintricatelyinvolvedinsucheffortstoassure the use of the dataisculturallyappropriate,acceptable,andmeaningfulin improving the health of theirpeople.Byreinstitutingeffortsthatbeganin1997between the commissionand the WashingtonStateDepartment of HealththroughanAmericanIndianData Committee,anupdatedframeworkcanbedevelopedforaddressingpriorityhealth issuesforAI/AN.  Thereareseveralentitiesthatconsistentlyconductresearchandcollectandinterpret dataonAI/AN.Over the nexttwoyears, the commissionwillpartnerwith the Department of Health, the NorthwestPortlandAreaIndianHealthBoard, the Urban IndianInstitute,andotherepidemiology/research‐basedcenterswithagoal of developingamorecomprehensiveunderstanding of the current‐dayhealth of the AI/ANpopulationandprovidingTribes,Tribalorganizations,and the statemore accurateinformationneededtoaddresspublichealthpolicyissuesimportanttoTribal communities.  C. ... IndianHealthDataCollaborative  Comprehensivedataon the health of AI/ANinWashingtonisseverelylackingasAI/AN raceisoftenunderreportedormisclassified.Estimation of diseaseratesoftenrelieson the use of vitalrecords,includingbirthanddeathcertificates,diseaseregistries,and censusdata.Errorsand/orinaccuraciesoccur whendataforAI/ANcommunitiesare reportedincompletelyorarenotreportedaccurately.  Acloselyrelatedproblemarisesdueto the factthateachdatasystemmayrecordrace differently. The impact of thisdifferentialrecording of raceon the completenessand accuracy of the numbersandrates of healtheventsforAI/ANsisdifficult,ifnot ... First,aState‐Tribal‐UrbanIndianHealthCollaborativehasbeenre‐institutedata state/triballeaderpolicylevelforaddressingappropriatesystemschangeandpolicy decisionsthatneedtobemadetochangehealthoutcomesforIndianpeople.This group—comprised of tribalgovernments,healthstaff,andstateleadersacross multiplesystemsanddepartments—willbestrategicallyaligningstatewideIndian healthdisparitiesworkwithGovernorGregoire’s5‐PointHealthCareInitiative.Thiswill allow the grouptoleverageexistingresources,maximize the limitedfundscurrently available,andcreate the infrastructurenecessarytofurtherreduceIndianhealth disparitiesin the future.  Second,severalagencies,organizations,andinstitutionshaveexpressedarenewed interestincomingtogethertodevelopamorecompleteset of AmericanIndianhealth statusdata.Accuratedataisnecessarytosupportcommunityhealthassessmentsand policydevelopmenttoimproveservicedeliveryandhealthstatus of Indianpeople. Withoutpaintingamorethoroughpicture of IndianhealthinWashingtontoday, the abilitytoplanorimproveservices,monitorquality,andanalyzecostsisseverely impaired.Tribalgovernmentsmustbeintricatelyinvolvedinsucheffortstoassure the use of the dataisculturally‐appropriate,acceptable,andmeaningfulin improving the health of theirpeople.Byreinstitutingeffortsthatbeganin1997between the AmericanIndianHealthCommissionandWashingtonStateDepartment of Health throughanAmericanIndianDataCommittee,anupdatedframeworkcanbedeveloped foraddressingpriorityhealthissuesforAI/AN.  Third,sweepingnationalhealthreformand the currentadministrationofferaunique opportunityforchangeinhowhealthcareisprovidedtoAI/ANs.AsIndianhealth leadershipsuchas the U.S.IndianHealthServices, the NationalIndianHealthBoard, andmoreregionally, the NorthwestPortlandAreaIndianHealthBoard,strongly advocatesfor the inclusion of Indianhealthreforminnationalreformstrategies, the stateisalsorethinkinghowitprovidesquality,affordable,andcost‐effectivehealth caretoitscitizens. The state,Tribes,and the commissionwillactivelypartnerinthese effortstoaddress the needforAI/ANincreasedaccesstoexistingservices,increased Tribalproviderreimbursementopportunitiesso culturally‐appropriateservicescanbe providedinTribalcommunities,anddevelopmechanismsforevaluatingprogressfor improvedIndianhealthstatus.  SectionIII,2007‐2009Accomplishments,highlightssome of the majorachievements madeforIndianhealthin the statesince the lastplanwaspublishedin2007.Additional partnershipshavebeendeveloped,keypolicyissueshavebeenaddressed,andthere ...

... cut-off 0.05 by varying the threshold for the confidence values. In order to show the effects of the use of the training SCFs, I also performed clustering of SCF confidence-value vectors in the acquired ... centroid cut-off 0.05*). The graph shows that clustering is mean- ingful only when we make use of the reliable SCFs in the manually-coded lexicon. The centroid cut- off using the lexicon of the grammar ... lexicon of the tar- get grammar, 4 and make use of the existing sets of 4 When the lexicon is less accurate, I can determine the number of clusters using other algorithms (Hamerly, 2003). SCFs for the...

... outline of how a descrip- tion of speaker-reference can ser~e as a source of em- pirical support to a theory of speech acts. However, much more research must take place to flesh out the theoretical ... Other signals of the interpretation of intent need to be identified to explain how the expertis "OK, now start pumping" communicates ... deliberately av- oided problems of computation here, but hope the panel will discuss these issues, especially the utility of computational mode is to ethnographers of conversation. Acknowledgements:...

... adverbial. In these cases, what is sited by TF is the beginning of the interval. What in turn sites the RT of the main clause is the end of the interval. The processing of the first two clauses ... point N in the discourse, there is one node of e/s structure that provides a context for the interpretation of the RT of the next ctause. I will call it the temporal focus or TF. There are ... Rather, it is the RT of the second clause: its ET is interpreted as prior to that because the clause is in the past perfect tense (see above). Having said that it is the RT of tense whose interpretation...

... description of the objects while the A-Box contains the set of the assertions on the objects. The former corresponds to the ability of describing by the use of NPs, and the latter to that of constructing ... to use the notion of predicate to interpret this complex process as well as the other possible interpretation of the adjective: the one corresponding to tile notion of "type of& quot; ... contain other symbolic systems. The task of the ~JM is mainly to hold hypotheses to be mapped onto the LT~! which requires the cooperation of several interpreters. The Introduction of a larger...