... link the senses across
dictionaries, hence Wik is only used as augmented
data for WMF to better learn the semantics of words.
All data is tokenized, POS tagged (Toutanova et al.,
2003) and lemmatized, ... this case, many senses will share the
same latent semantics profile, as long as they are in
the same topic/domain.
To solve the sparsity issue we use missing words
as negative evidence of latent ... (adjectives and adverbs) do not have
a taxonomic representation structure. For example,
the jcn similarity measure (Jiang and Conrath, 1997)
computes the sense pair similarity score based on the
information...
... application of adaptor
grammars, since the grammar can learn the possible
onset and coda clusters, rather than requiring them
to be stipulated in the grammar.
In the unigram syllable adaptor grammar shown
in ... advance, in an adaptor grammar the subtrees, as
well as their probabilities, are learnt fromthe train-
ing data. In order to make parsing and inference
tractable we require the leaves of these ... probability ofthe subtrees rooted in a specified
subset M ofthe nonterminals known as the adapted
nonterminals.
Adaptor grammars achieve this by associating
each adapted nonterminal A ∈ M with a...
... Institute
University of Southern California
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chiarcos@daad-alumni.de
Abstract
This paper describes a novel approach towards
the empirical approximation of discourse ... Triples can be easily acquired from automatically
parsed corpora. While the relation word is usually
part ofthe utterance that represents the source of
the relation, determining the appropriate target ... necessary to
develop operationalizable theories, and, within a su-
pervised approach, large amounts of annotated train-
ing data. To facilitate manual annotation, weakly
supervised or unsupervised...
... and assume
that learning takes place in an environment where
simple semantic representations ofthespeech intent
are available to theacquisition mechanism.
For example, we approximate the ... interested in how alexiconof discrete words
can be acquired fromcontinuous speech, a prob-
lem fundamental both to child language acquisition
and to the automated induction of computer speech
recognition ... work-in-progress on the ma-
chine acquisitionofalexiconfrom sen-
tences that are each an unsegmented phone
sequence paired with a primitive represen-
tation of meaning. A simple exploratory
algorithm...
... is
composed ofthe catalytic domain only [11]. At a satu-
rating concentration of Spectrozyme-PL, all three fatty
acids affected the activity of miniplasmin in the same
manner as that of plasmin; apparent ... arachidonate (AA)
or 175 l
M stearate (SA), was measured. The mean and standard deviation values of four measurements are presented.
Fatty acids as plasmin inhibitors A. Tanka-Salamon et al.
1280 ... presence of fatty acids.
The values of k
p
and K
m
were determined fromthe amidolytic
assay of plasmin activity, according to Model I, in the presence of
oleate (OA) and arachidonate (AA), or, according...
... purchased from
Pharmacia Biotech (Vienna, Austria).
Visualization and analysis of molecular structures
Molecular structures whose coordinates were obtained
from the RCSB database were visualized ... Peplow, F. Yamakura and T. Matsumoto for the
analyses of iron and manganese in protein samples. We also wish to
thank H. Steinman for the gift of E. coli OX32 6A. We finally thank Mr
M. Farrugia for ... helper phage (Stratagene). One microgram was
utilized in mutagenesis reactions together with oligonucleo-
tides ECF-Q69G d(5¢-AACAACGCAGCT
GGGCTCTG
GAACCAT), ECF -A1 41Q d(5¢-TCAACCTCTAAC
CAG
GCTACTCCGCTG)...
... between
ard1 and ard2 are part ofthe ata cluster, ata12 and ataPKS1
should also pertain to it. Further sequencing ofthe ata
cluster could provide an insight into the biosynthetic
pathway ofthe other ... comprise a large region ofa putative A2 0 1A
biosynthetic (ata) gene cluster. The sequence ofthe 7 kb
upstream of ard1 towards ard2 reveals seven consecutive
open reading frames: ataP3, ataP5, ataP4, ... orientation
(Figs2and 3A) .Ofthese,five(ataP3, ataP5, ataP4, ataP10
and ataP7) are highly similar to known or putative genes
that are known or proposed to be implicated in the
biosynthesis ofthe aminonucleoside...
... that product abundance was evaluated in the
exponential phase ofthe reaction (half ofthe maximum
product). To further validate the assays, the optimized cycle
number (23 and 28 for gpd and lac1, ... (5¢-GGCACT
GAGTGACGAAGGCAGGACCATC-3¢), was designed
for the 5¢-RACE reaction to generate the 5¢-cDNA end
fragment of lac1 .The5 ¢-cDNA end fragment was cloned
into pGEM T-vector and sequenced as above. ... standard assay mixtures, the velocity of ABTS oxidation
was maximal at 45 °C. The dependence ofthe rate of ABTS
oxidation by lac1 on substrate concentration at pH 3.0 and
45 °C followed Michaelis–Menten...
... Tsutsui N, Saido-Sakanaka H, Yang WJ, Jayasankar V,
Jasmani S, Okuno A, Ohira T, Okumura T, Aida K &
Wilder MN (2004) Molecular characterization of a
cDNA encoding vitellogenin in the coonstriped ... dsRNA,
DNA corresponding to the mature peptide of MeMIH-B
was amplified by PCR using T7 promoter-linked primers
(forward, 5¢-TAATACGACTCACTATAGGTACTATG
TATCGCATGCCAAT-3¢; reverse, 5¢-TAATACGACTC
ACTATAGGTACTTTAAAGTCCCGGGTTGA-3¢). ... lower panel is the northern
blot analysis of MeMIH-B expression in the eyestalk (Es) and tho-
racic ganglia during the gonad maturation cycle. Each lane repre-
sents an RNA sample fromthe eyestalk...
... Institute of Instrumentation Frontier, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan
Post-translational phosphorylation serves as a control
mechanism in a myriad of ... reveals that
both tau peptides are capable of self-aggregation and that phosphorylation
at Ser356 can modulate this process.
Abbreviations
AD, Alzheimer’s disease; PHF, paired helical filament; ... which
predominantly carries a double negative charge at
neutral pH, affects the electrostatic potential and
quite often the conformation ofthe modified protein.
Even in the absence of rearrangement, the change
in...
... DosH as a template
and using the following respective 5¢-sense primers: 5¢-gatga
gtcgggagACCcagctggagaaaaaag-3¢,5¢-gatgagtcgggagTTTcag
ctggagaaaaaag-3¢,5¢-ggacccgttttgcgACCtcgaaagtgagc-3¢,
and ... decreased the rate of auto-oxidation [5],
whereas Ala and Asn substitutions at Asp40, an
amino-acid residue that interacts via two water mole-
cules with the proximal ligand His77, markedly
increased ... Hirata S, Matsui T, Sasakura Y, Sugiyama S, Yoshim-
ura T, Sagami I & Shimizu T (2003) Characterization of
Met95 mutants ofa heme-regulated phosphodiesterase
from Escherichia coli. Optical...