This book focuses on Entity Discovery and Linking (EDL), which is the problem of identifying concepts and entities, disambiguating them, and grounding them to one or more knowledge bases (KBs). The authors first provide background on the topic and emphasize why it is a crucial step toward understanding natural language text. As most of the content on the internet is not in English, the book also discusses cross-lingual EDL. The authors present the challenges associated with EDL problems an...

In the last few years, a number of NLP researchers have developed and participated in the task of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE). This task encapsulates Natural Language Understanding capabilities within a very simple interface: recognizing when the meaning of a text snippet is contained in the meaning of a second piece of text. This simple abstraction of an exceedingly complex problem has broad appeal partly because it can be conceived also as a component in other NLP applications, ...

This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on the use of unmanned aircraft systems in an array of agricultural settings.The first chapter provides an overview of unmanned aerial system (UAS) platforms and sensors, flight planning and imagery acquisition, before moving on to consider stitching and ortho-rectification in UAS image processing.The second chapter discusses approaches to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing and data analysis for high-throughput field p...

Le roman de Philip Roth n’est pas une complète dystopie comme 1984 de George Orwell, mais une altération du cours de l’histoire qu’on nomme uchronie. Elle n’est pas sans rappeler le roman de Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here, paru en 1935, qui dépeint un ancien sénateur élu à la Maison Blanche, Buzz Windrip, qui devient une sorte d’Hitler américain. Philip Roth, est né dans une famille juive en 1933, l’année de l’accession d’Hitler au pouvoir mais, à l’inverse des cinq à six millions de...

Things have changed. The Truth has not. The 1950's are gone forever. The days of the Sunday school attendance award and the much-loved Sunday school picnic have faded into oblivion. Yet some youth ministries still operate as if today's kids are living in a vacuum, unaffected by the changing morals of today's society. How can we reach these kids with the truth of the gospel? More than fifty of America's youth experts give advice and encouragement to those who long to see this generation kno...

Fuyant les tracas de sa vie quotidienne en Autriche, Hermann Ritter part s’établir au pôle Nord pour y mener une vie de trappeur. Son épouse, Christiane, parfaite ménagère des années 1930, décide alors de troquer son statut de femme au foyer pour celui d’aventurière du Grand Nord. Malgré la réticence de ses proches, Christiane débarque à l’été 1933 sur les côtes du Spitzberg, une île de l’Arctique, pour rejoindre son mari dans une pauvre cabane, isolée sur une terre hostile et déserte. Apr...

In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O’Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as "a piece of fine meshwork, a net of perfectly observed sensuous details that enables you to contain all the longing and pain and remorse that surge through the fiction." The phrase "fine meshwork" can apply not only to O’Brien’s writing but also to the connective threads that bind her work to others’, including, most illuminatingly, Roth’s.Since the publication of their first controversial n...

Hope, a young lawyer becomes acquainted with a study group and learns of a plot to interrupt government computers. She wants answers but she must decide which of three men she can trust. Two of them are friends, one from her past and one in her present. The third man is very determined to warn the public about the government's planned control of the populace. Just when she begins to trust one of them, he lies to her. Extreme natural disasters occur and She and the group become hated by the...

An enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friends—Andy Warhol and Truman Capote.In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capote decided to write a Broadway play. Andy suggested that he record their private conversations over the period of a few months, and that these tapes would be the source material for the play. The tapes were then filed away and forgotten. Their play was never completed.Now, award-winning director Rob Roth brings the...