A comparative study of open domain and opinion question answering systems for factual and opinionated queries

The development of the Web 2.0 led to the birth of new textual genres such as blogs, reviews or forum entries. The increasing number of such texts and the highly diverse topics they discuss make blogs a rich source for analysis. This paper presents a comparative study on open domain and opinion QA systems. A collection of opinion and mixed fact-opinion questions in English is defined and two Question Answering systems are employed to retrieve the answers to these queries. The first one is generic, while the second is specific for emotions. We comparatively evaluate and analyze the systems’ results, concluding that opinion Question Answering requires the use of specific resources and methods.

Europe’s most wanted? Recalibrating Trust in the European Arrest Warrant System. CEPS Paper Liberty and Security in Europe 55/21 March 2013

This paper assesses the uses and misuses in the application of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) system in the European Union. It examines the main quantitative results of this extradition system achieved between 2005 and 2011 on the basis of the existing statistical knowledge on its implementation at EU official levels. The EAW has been anchored in a high level of ‘mutual trust’ between the participating states’ criminal justice regimes and authorities. This reciprocal confidence, however, has been subject to an increasing number of challenges resulting from its practical application, presenting a dual conundrum: 1. Principle of proportionality: Who are the competent judicial authorities cooperating with each other and ensuring that there are sufficient impartial controls over the necessity and proportionality of the decisions on the issuing and execution of EAWs? 2. Principle of division of powers: How can criminal justice authorities be expected to handle different criminal judicial traditions in what is supposed to constitute a ‘serious’ or ‘minor’ crime in their respective legal settings and ‘who’ is ultimately to determine (divorced from political considerations) when is it duly justified to make the EAW system operational? It is argued that the next generation of the EU’s criminal justice cooperation and the EAW need to recognise and acknowledge that the mutual trust premise upon which the European system has been built so far is no longer viable without devising new EU policy stakeholders’ structures and evaluation mechanisms. These should allow for the recalibration of mutual trust and mistrust in EU justice systems in light of the experiences of the criminal justice actors and practitioners having a stake in putting the EAW into daily effect. Such a ‘bottom-up approach’ should be backed up with the best impartial and objective evaluation, an improved system of statistical collection and an independent qualitative assessment of its implementation. This should be placed as the central axis of a renewed EAW framework which should seek to better ensure the accountability, impartial (EU-led) scrutiny and transparency of member states’ application of the EAW in light of the general principles and fundamental rights constituting the foundations of the European system of criminal justice cooperation.

Global compilation of chlorophyll fluorescence profiles from several data bases, and from published and unpublished individual sources

The present data set includes 268,127 vertical in situ fluorescence profiles obtained from several available online databases and from published and unpublished individual sources. Metadata about each profiles are given in the file provided here in further details. The majority of profiles comes from the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) and the fluorescence profiles acquired by Bio-Argo floats available on the Oceanographic Autonomous Observations (OAO) platform (63.7% and 12.5% respectively). Different modes of acquisition were used to collect the data presented in this study: (1) CTD profiles are acquired using a fluorometer mounted on a CTD-rosette; (2) OSD (Ocean Station Data) profiles are derived from water samples and are defined as low resolution profiles; (3) the UOR (Undulating Oceanographic Recorder) profiles are acquired by a equipped with a fluorometer and towed by a research vessel; (4) PA profiles are acquired by autonomous platforms (here profiling floats or elephant seals equipped with a fluorometer). Data acquired from gliders are not included in the compilation.

Amendments to the Natural Gas Act (exemption of producers) Report on S. 1853, to amend the Natural Gas Act, as amended, together with the minority views of Mr. Magnuson, Mr. Pastore, Mr. Potter, and Mr. Purtell, and the individual views of Mr. Duff and Mr. Payne.

Mode of access: Internet.

The dispensation of the Spirit : being readings on the person and work of the Holy Ghost in relation to the world, the church, and the individual /

'Published under the direction of the Tract Committee'.

The world and the individual /

1st ser. The four historical conception of being -- 2nd ser. Nature, man and the moral order.

Final report of the Commission on Industrial Relations, including the report of Basil M. Manly, director of research and investigation, and the individual reports and statements of the several commissioners.

Senate doc. 415, 64th Cong., 1st sess., has title: Industrial relations. Final report and testimony.

Triptych, open, Virgin and Child Enthroned, Scenes from the Life of the Virgin

Painting, Crusader, 13th century; 22-23/64 x 18-25/32 in. (center); 21-9/64 x 8-35/64 in. (each wing); tempera, gold and silver on wood

John Fischer, UM Men's Golf, on UM Golf Course, 1935 teamed with Chuck Kocsis in arranged match with professionals, Olin Dutra, National Open champion and famed long-ball hitter Jimmy Thompson.

[Ensian caption: "Professional star admiring on the country's leading amateurs. Fischer whisks one down the fairway while [Olin] Dutra, Chuck Kocsis and Thompson follow the bounding ball."]

Prevalence of mixed neuropathologies in autopsied older adults and associations with clinical disease progression

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06