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In line GDP revision sees Dow futures slip very slightly, now down 35. Leaves dollar unfazed.
UK Treasury: "UK economy is creating jobs"
UK Treasury says GDP data confirm econ is still growing.
GBP/USD on the rise after UK GDP data
UK Q2 GDP unrevised 0.2% q/q; up 0.7% y/y
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Nikkei 225 Index ends Friday up 0.29% at 8797.78.
Major European bourses are initially seen trading lower Friday
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Forest Cottage is a perfect romantic retreat for couples to sample country living by the coast. Just one and a half hours from Melbourne, it is located on a spacious two acre property, surrounded by gum trees and natural bushland, and features an abundance of native bird life list available on request. You will be able to relax in comfort
The cedar studio, set amongst gardens, shares its off street parking with the main residence. The queen sized bed comes with cotton sheets and a downy doona. The ensuite bathroom has a shower, towels, and complementary toiletries are provided. Facilities include TV with DVD, refrigerator, microwave, double hotplate, mini toaster oven, electric skillet, rice cooker, kettle, crockery, cook ware, and cutlery. Plunger coffee, a variety of teas, milk, and a welcome treat are provided for your pleasure. If you have any dietary restrictions, please let me know. LPG gas heating and an electric blanket ensure your comfort in the cooler months. The shady verandas and a ceiling fan keep the cottage cool in the summer.
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As per the Hindu religion, only gods are entitled for an "abhishek" and not a human being. Mahendra Pratap Tiwari was suspended by Sagar Divisional Commissioner Rajkumar Mathur for allegedly disrespecting Hindu religion after a complaint was filed against him, official sources said.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Movie of Christopher Peters. Was premiered in 2014, with production teams of NZ. You can watch 127 online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2014.
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Runtime: 20 minutes
John Clarke, Seth Flynn, Kaylee Lloyd, Rebekah Palmer, Lee Saunders, Simon Shreeve, Melvin Te Wani and James Wells.
Short film, Drama, Criminal.
20-minute film (full movie) directed by Christopher Peters.
The original audio of 127 has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in NZ.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2014.
Screenplay written by Robert Peters and Christopher Peters.
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Christopher Peters.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie 127 has a duration of 20 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in EnglishDolby Digital in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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Askmebazaar comes with an exclusive offers of Electric Lunch Box at Rs 435. Anytime and anywhere, fresh, hot meal you can eat. It is perfect for office lunch, color as per stock availability Pack up a power lunch with this Electric Lunch Box. Perfect for office lunch, this durable lunch box does an incredible job of keeping your food hot. It comes with a micro switch and electronic control. You just need to switch it on 10 minutes before your lunch. Though not to be immersed in water you can still wash it directly from the top after closing the Plug Cap tightly. Easy to carry and use, it has high temperature resistance, saves energy and is safe too.
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I've been going to shows at the legendary 9:30 Club since I was a teenager, and have seen some of the best of the best grace that venerable stage. It is a pleasure to be offering a pair of tickets to several upcoming 9:30/IMP shows over the next few months.
The ladies of Warpaint are at it again, y'all, touring the pants off latest long player Heads Up, newly released on Rough Trade. The NY Times calls the record's songs "both brooding and frisky," which pretty much means you certainly don't want to miss hearing them up close and in person.
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In that special week of August people in US were listening to I Gotta Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas.
Fantomas, directed by Louis Feuillade, was one of the most viewed movies released in 2009
while Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer was one of the best selling books.
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Lord Earl Meow Grey Cat III likes a proper scone.
Most of the scones on this blog are fruity. This one is a basic, kind of fatty, proper scone. I am disappointed to report that I did not eat a scone while in Scotland last fall, but I did eat VGF mince pies and little savoury pies. As more of a pastry scone than a fruity biscuit, these scones benefit from a brief chill in the fridge to firm up the margarine and create a flaky texture in the finished product. Some sconengineers out there believe in using frozen butter, but since vegan margarine doesn't freeze to a useful consistency, a refrigerated chill it is.
Cranberry Orange Scones
Modified from "Scones" at King Arthur Flour
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1/4 cup finely ground flaxseed
- 1/2 cup nondairy milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups GF oat flour
- 3/4 cup sorghum flour
- 1/4 cup tapioca starch (for high altitude)
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/3 cup sugar, blitzed to powder (I used a mix of organic cane and coconut)
- 1/2 cup vegan margarine, very cold
- Add-ins: 1 cup dried cranberries, zest of one orange
- Don't preheat the oven! Line a baking sheet with parchment and set aside.
- In a large measuring cup, whisk together water, ground flaxseed, nondairy milk, and vanilla.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, sift then whisk together flours, xanthan gum, salt, baking powder, and sugar.
- With the mixer running, add in margarine in chunks and mix until the flour-and-fat mixture forms pea-sized clumps.
- Add the liquid ingredients and mix until combined.
- Stir in the add-ins until evenly distributed.
- Transfer dough to the parchment:
- The easy way: use a large cookie or ice cream scoop and make drop scones.
- The complicated way: divide the dough in half. Shape each half into a flat disk on the sheets, about 3 inches high. Cut the disks into eight pieces and pull apart the wedges so there's room for air to circulate.
- Once you've shaped your scones, put them in the fridge, uncovered, for 30 minutes.
- Halfway into chilling time, preheat your oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Put the chilled scones into the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes or until scones spring back to the touch.
- Cool on the pan for five minutes before removing to a rack to cool completely.
I grew up eating raisin scones with lemon glaze, and these are a pleasant update!
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Raven, Virginia belongs on your restaurant bucket list. Let's suppose you are already sold and ready to ask your smartphone: find places to eat near me in Virginia! You need to check out these restaurant suggestions.
This is a regional hub and the top restaurants nearby likely won't win many Michelin stars. Who cares if Brad Pitt ever stopped in to try these restaurants? Those Hollywood types wouldn't appreciate the fine food anyways.
It's no secret that the born and bred want to keep it all for themselves. If you want a good Czech food, you may need to keep searching. But scrumptious American or ethnic? Check. Legit tacos and nachos? No problemo! Top bang for the buck, YUP. What else could you dream of?
These chefs are rebels with a cause. Five course gluttonous feasts are easily attainable in Raven, Virginia. Or you could sneak in a quick bite if you have no time.
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Winding down the year, Andrew and I have both found ourselves caught up in a whirlwind of deadlines, holiday parties, 4pm sunsets, and 5am Poe peeps. With little time left for casual kitchen rendezvous, we've been relying on meal prep – namely, of our soups and stews – for when we're both home and looking for healthy, nourishing, and quick bites. One pot meals that require less than 30 minutes in the kitchen for a weeks worth of leftovers, these winter stew staples are loaded with immune boosting and health promoting seasonal vegetables and protein and fiber rich grains and beans for well rounded and belly filling meals we can't get enough of. Below you'll find a roundup of my four very favorites, just enough to get you through to Christmas and Hanukkah, those recipes we've made again and again.. and again. Enjoy!
Clean Cannellini Kale Soup •• for those afternoons and evenings where you want nothing more than to dive headfirst into a bowl of comfort, a warm cozy blanket made from white beans and kale, this seven ingredient simple soup is just the slurp for you. Coming together in under 30-minutes flat, from cardinal onion cut to summing swallow, belly filling while nutritively rich in plant based protein and fiber, my cannellini kale soup is only elevated further with a bright pop of fresh lemon. I serve my bowl with a side of toasted crusty bread, perfect for dunking.
Smoked Tomato Soup with Sesame Bagel Croutons •• best served with a side of extra croutons, this one pot tomato soup is warming, vibrant, both acidic and rounded, and overtly nourishing in the soul and cell kind of way. To save yourself a few dollars (and because they won't be that delicious anyways offseason), during winter months substitute the 2 pounds of ripe plum tomatoes with an extra 28 ounce can of whole peeled tomatoes. I also tend to double the recipe, keeping leftovers in my freezer to defrost and reheat whenever I'm in a mealtime pinch.
Tomato and Farro Minestrone •• made with a simple tomato and oregano based broth, loads of chunky vegetables, protein and fiber rich farro and cannellini beans, and barely wilted ribbons of lacinato kale, this one-pot chunky minestrone- nourishing, hearty, and divinely cozy- is one I can't get enough of. Note: although the recipe calls for farro, kale, and cannellinis, feel free to substitute with equal amounts of your favorite grain, bean, and green or with whatever you have handy.
Persian Celery Stew, Khoresh Karafs •• traditionally made with rich cubes of beef or lamb, my wonderfully nourishing plant based khoresh (stew) is instead filled to the brim with lima beans – packed with protein and fiber and their own kind of plant based 'meatiness'. Paired with heaps of fresh parsley, mint, and celery, I serve my stew over fresh basmati rice or baghali polo, followed by a piping mug of Persian cardamom chai.


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The legend of the Blue Willow is a tale of forbidden love in ancient times. Clouded by the mists of time the tale goes that to escape the wrath of her rich father, a young girl elopes with her lover. Discovered on a small boat, the young lovers escape his wrath when divine intervention turns them into a pair of turtle doves.
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The present invention is directed to the indexing and searching of text in documents for information retrieval purposes, and more particularly to an indexing and searching system that is capable of handling text in any of a plurality of languages.
With the increasing amount of information that is available to users via today's computer systems, efficient techniques for locating information of interest are becoming essential. To expedite the process of searching and retrieving relevant information, it is a common practice to create an index of the searchable information that is available from various sources. For instance, if a collection of documents are to be searched for information, the documents are first examined to identify terms of interest, and an index is created which associates each term with the document(s) in which it appears. Thereafter, when a user constructs a search query, the terms in that query are examined against the entries in the index, to locate the documents containing the requested terms.
Many search engines process the search results to calculate the relevance of each identified document to the query. For instance, a score can be calculated for each document, using a statistical technique that accounts for the number of query terms that are matched in the document, the frequency of each of those terms in the index, the frequency of each term in the document compared to the total number of terms in the document, and the like. Based upon these scores, the documents are displayed to the user in order of their relevance to the query. By means of such an approach, the query does not have to be a precisely constructed formula for finding only those documents which exactly match the terms of the query. Rather, it can be a list of words, or a natural language sentence.
Before a string of text from a document or other source of information can be indexed, it must be parsed into individual words. Preferably, the separated words are further processed to expedite the search and retrieval function. The process of separating a text string into individual words is known as tokenization. As a first step, the text is parsed into word tokens. A word token may or may not be a recognized word, i.e., a word which appears in a dictionary. After the word tokens have been identified, they are processed to eliminate those which do not serve as useful search terms.
A further process that can be carried out prior to indexing is known as "stemming". In essence, stemming is the reduction of words to their grammatical stems. This process serves two primary purposes. First, it helps to reduce the size of the index, since all forms of a word are reduced to a single stem, and therefore require only one entry in the index. Second, retrieval is improved, since a query which uses one form of a word will find documents containing all of the different forms.
Ideally, the stemming processing is applied to all words that take different forms, and accounts for every possible form of each word. In this type of approach, stemming is highly language dependent. In the past, therefore, information search and retrieval systems which employed stemming were designed for a specific language. In particular, the rules that were used to reduce each word to its grammatical stem would typically apply to only one language, and could not be employed in connection with other languages. Consequently, a different search and retrieval mechanism had to be provided for each different language that might be encountered in the documents to be searched.
With the widespread accessibility of various information sources that is provided by today's computing environments, particularly when coupled with worldwide telecommunications facilities, such as the internet, any given source of information might contain documents in multiple different languages. Furthermore, it is not uncommon for a single document to contain text in more than one language. In these type of environments, it would be impractical to have to identify the language of a document, and then employ a different search and retrieval system for each different language that might be encountered. It is an objective of the present invention, therefore, to provide a mechanism for indexing and searching textual content which is generic to a plurality of different languages.
In accordance with the present invention, a multi-lingual indexing and search system performs tokenization and stemming in a manner which is independent of whether index entries and search terms appear as words in a dictionary for a given language. During the tokenization phase of the process, a string of text is separated into individual word tokens. Predetermined types of tokens, known as junk tokens and stop words, are eliminated from further processing. As a further step, characters with diacritical marks are converted into corresponding unmarked lower case letters, to eliminate match errors that might result from incorrectly accented words.
The stemming phase of the process reduces words to grammatical stems by removing known word-endings associated with the various languages to be supported. To expedite the stemming process, as well as expand subsequent retrieval, the stemming process is not directed to finding the true grammatical root form of a word. Rather, a known word ending is removed without any effort to guarantee that the remaining stem actually appears in a dictionary. For instance, a vowel change that normally occurs within a word, as a result of the addition of an ending, is ignored during the stemming process.
As a further feature, the stemming process is limited to word endings that are associated with nouns. This aspect of the invention is based on the assumption that nouns are much more significant than verbs, in terms of informational content in a query. Consequently, the major processing effort is directed to nouns.
By means of these techniques, a uniform approach is provided for the tokenization and stemming of words across a variety of languages. Consequently, the search and retrieval engine can identify documents that may be relevant to the user's query, regardless of the particular language(s) appearing in a given document.
Further features of the invention, and the advantages achieved thereby, are described in detail hereinafter with reference to specific embodiments illustrated in the accompanying figures.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a computer system in which an information retrieval system can be employed for different purposes;
FIG. 2 is a general block diagram of an information retrieval system in which the present invention can be implemented;
FIGS. 3a-3 d illustrate one example of the examination of word tokens for known endings of successively shorter lengths; and
FIG. 4 is a flow chart of the stemming procedure.
To facilitate an understanding of the present invention, it is described hereinafter with reference to a particular embodiment which is designed for the tokenization and stemming of multiple Western European languages. In addition, various parameters are described which have been found to be particularly effective in such a context. It will be appreciated, however, that the principles of the invention are not limited to this particular example. Rather, they can be employed in a variety of applications in which it is desirable to conduct searches for relevant information in text which may span a plurality of different languages.
Systems for indexing and searching text can be used in a variety of different situations. For instance, with reference to FIG. 1, a personal computer 1 typically executes an operating system that may have various help files associated with it. Those help files are usually stored on local storage media 2 associated with the computer 1, such as a magnetic disk drive or an optical disk. In the case of a network computer, the help files may be stored on one or more network storage volumes 3 that are accessed via a network server 4. When the user desires assistance on same aspect of the computer's operation, he or she can enter a search query that requests information about a particular topic from the help files. In response, a search engine which may be part of the operating system examines the help files for those containing text which matches the terms in the query, and provides the results to the user via a display 5.
In another instance, the user may desire to search all of the files that are stored on the local storage media 2 and/or the network volumes 3 to find those having particular textual content. Further along these lines, the user might perform a more expansive search of various information sources 6 that are accessed via the internet, through an internet service provider 7, or some other form of wide-area telecommunication system. In this case, the search engine might be operating on the user's local computer 1, a network server 4 to which the computer 1 is connected, or one of the remote sites 6 that are accessed by the service provider 7.
Before documents and other sources of information can be searched for relevant data, they are typically processed to create an index. In the context of the present invention, the term "document" is used in a generic sense to identify any body of textual content that may be relevant to a user's query. Thus, for example, a set of documents could be a collection of electronic files in a library, or the various web pages associated with an internet site on the worldwide web.
In certain situations, not all searchable files are likely to provide relevant information. For example, as described previously, one of the applications of the present invention is in the context of a "Find by Content" feature, for locating files stored on a computer's hard disk, a network server, or the like. In this type of environment, certain types of files are not likely to yield useful information. Examples of these types of files include application programs, compressed databases, graphics, etc. Prior to conducting the indexing procedure, therefore, these types of files can be eliminated from consideration. For this purpose, the information retrieval system might employ one or more dictionaries (not shown) which define files by type, name and/or filename extension. Any file which corresponds to an entry in these dictionaries is not indexed.
An example of an information retrieval system which can be used to perform search operations, in accordance with the present invention, is illustrated in the block diagram of FIG. 2. Documents 10 from various sources which are to be searched, such as the local storage 2, network volumes 3 or internet sites 6, are first presented to a tokenizer 12. The contents which are provided to the tokenizer typically comprise more than text. Although some application programs produce pure text files, most applications generate documents comprising text that is mixed with assorted other information, e.g. formatting codes. The tokenizer 12 initially processes all of the content information that is provided to it, without attempting to distinguish between text and other information. In the context of a system which is designed to operate with Western European languages, the tokenizer first categorizes 8-bit codes as individual characters. By following a set of rules, the tokenizer groups characters into individual word tokens. One example of a set of rules that can be employed for this purpose is set forth below:
1. Control characters for horizontal tab, linefeed, vertical tab, form feed, and return characters are recognized as word separators.
2. All other control characters are treated as "junk" characters. A token containing a junk character is discarded as a junk token, as described hereinafter.
3. A comma and a period are treated as part of a number, if preceded and followed by digits; otherwise, they are recognized as word separators.
4. Other non-alphanumeric characters are treated as word separators, except for the comma and period as noted above. Characters in this category include the space character, currency symbols, punctuation, and various other symbols.
5. Capital letters are converted to lower case.
6. Certain letters are converted to other letters by stripping away diacritical marks.
7. Certain letters are converted to two-letter combinations.
8. The decimal digits 0-9 form numbers, which can also contain periods and commas. In one embodiment, digits can also appear at the beginning or end of a word. In this case, a token that contains a digit which is not at the beginning or end is discarded as a junk token.
With reference to rule 6, retrieval results are generally improved by removing diacritical marks, particularly since users may frequently omit them in their queries, or use the wrong mark. Therefore, most diacritically marked letters are converted to corresponding unmarked, lower case letters. In a similar manner, certain letters that are marked with an umlaut, and their equivalent ligatures, are converted to two-character alternate spellings. For instance, Ä and ä are converted to ae, and Ö and ö are converted to oe.
With reference to rules 2 and 8, when the entire data contents of a file are read into the tokenizer, there is no inherent indication of where actual text begins and ends. As a result, junk tokens, which do not contain any useful information for searching purposes, can result. While the presence of junk tokens in an index does not present significant problems, the index can be made smaller and the search process more efficient by detecting and removing as many junk tokens as possible. The following four rules illustrate one possible approach that can be employed for identifying and discarding junk tokens:
1. Any token that contains a junk character (control characters other than word separators) is a junk token.
2. Any token that is less than three characters is a junk token.
3. Any token that is more than 63 characters is a junk token.
4. Any token that contains both letters and digits is a junk token, if digit(s) appear anywhere except the beginning or end.
To further increase the efficiency of the search process, as well as reduce the size of the index, certain tokens which otherwise qualify as valid words are eliminated. These tokens are known as stop words, and basically constitute high-frequency words that are considered to be insignificant for purposes of finding relevant information. Typical examples of stop words include articles, prepositions and linking verbs, provided they occur commonly enough within a particular language. The stop words are listed in a stop words dictionary 14, which is referenced by the tokenizer 12. For a search and retrieval system that is designed to be used across multiple languages, one caveat should be employed in the creation of the stop words dictionary. Specifically, a word which qualifies as a stop word in one language should not be a significant word in another language. An example of this situation is the English word "the", one of the most frequently occurring articles in the language. This word is identical to the French noun "thé" (which translates to the English word "tea") after the diacritical marks are removed. In this case, "the" would not be included in the stop words dictionary 14.
The processing which takes place within the tokenizer 12 results in the generation of individual word tokens, which are presented to a stemmer 16, where each token is examined and, where appropriate, reduced to its grammatical stem. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, multi-lingual capabilities are achieved by employing two concepts that facilitate a fast stemming operation. First, the results of the stemming only need to be approximate, rather than exact. In this aspect of the invention, the stemming is carried out by removing known word endings. These known endings are stored in a list 18. Once an ending is removed from a word token, the result becomes the stem that is employed in an index without further processing, regardless of whether that result is actually a recognized word in any of the supported languages. For example, in the English language, the plural of the word "story" is "stories". In a conventional stemming process, the plural ending "ies" is replaced with the letter "y", to provide the singular form of the word. In the context of the present invention, however, the plural ending "ies" is simply removed, and the truncated version of the word, namely "stor" becomes the stem, even though it may not be a recognized dictionary word.
As a second feature of the invention, the stemming procedure is limited to nouns. Typically, the most significant terms in a search query are nouns, and most searching is likely to be carried out on the basis of these types of words. Accordingly, the only endings which are stored in the dictionary 18 are those which are associated with nouns in the supported languages. For a search and retrieval system that is designed to support the Western European languages, the following table illustrates one example of the word endings that might appear in the dictionary 18, together with the languages from which they originate. In the table, the endings are grouped by number of characters in each ending.
German, Dutch
English, French,
English, French, Spanish,
Spanish, Portuguese
German, Portugese
German, Swedish,
German, Swedish,
German, Italian, Swedish,
Swedish, Danish
German, Dutch, Swedish
Italian, Swedish
In this example, the noun endings are all of the common inflectional endings that occur in the supported languages, such as plural endings, case endings, and the like. Other types of endings, such as suffixes or clitics, are not removed.
The removal of the endings from the words is carried out in a non-recursive manner. In other words, after an ending has been removed from a word, it is not processed further to identify other known endings. To this end, therefore, the stemming process begins with the longest endings, and then proceeds to successively shorter endings. Thus, a single-character ending is removed only if a longer ending has not been previously identified.
FIGS. 3a-3 d illustrate one approach that can be employed to examine the word tokens for known endings, for the situation in which the longest ending consists of four characters. Referring to FIG. 3a, the characters of the word token are serially fed into a first-in, first out register 20, until a word separator is encountered. Once this occurs, the four-character endings are sequentially loaded into another register 22, and each is compared with the last four characters in the register 20. If a match occurs, a signal is sent to store the word token, minus the last four characters, in a buffer 23.
If no match occurs after the last four-character ending has been examined, a zero character is loaded into the last position of the register 20, as shown in FIG. 3b. The three-bit endings are then sequentially loaded into the register 22, for comparison testing. In this case, a zero character is also loaded into the last position of the register 22. If desired, the three-bit endings can be stored in the dictionary 18 with a zero in the fourth position, and thereby directly loaded into the register 22 in the same manner as the four-character endings. If a match occurs in this situation, the word token minus the last four characters in the register 20 is stored as the stem. Due to the presence of the zero character inserted into the last position, only the last three characters of the word token are removed to form the stem.
A similar procedure is carried out for two-character and single-character endings. At each step, another zero character is inserted into the last position of each of the registers 20 and 22, as illustrated in FIGS. 3c and 3 d. In this particular example, the fmal "s" on the word token matches a known one-character ending, and is therefore removed to form the stem. If no match occurs for any of the endings, the entire word token is stored in its original form.
As a further constraint that can be employed in one embodiment of the invention, the stem which remains after an ending has been removed can be required to have a predetermined minimum length. In one embodiment of the invention, this minimum length is equal to four characters. Hence, if the removal of a long ending would result in a stem that is less than four characters in length, that ending is not removed. In such a case, however, a shorter ending might still be removed, as long as it results in a stem of at least four characters in length. For example, the tokenizer 12 may present the word token "spies" to the stemmer 16. Even though the endings "ies" and "es" are contained in the dictionary 18, neither of these endings is removed from the word token, since the resulting stem would be shorter than four characters. However, the single-character ending "s" can be removed, resulting in the stem "spie".
A flow chart which depicts the overall stemming process is illustrated in FIG. 4. When a word token is received from the tokenizer 12, it is loaded into the FIFO register 20, at step 24. A determination is made at step 26 whether the length L of the word token is at least 8 characters. If the word token does not contain at least 8 characters, it would not be possible to remove any of the known 4-character endings, since to do so would result in a stem that is less than 4 characters long. If the word token has a length of at least 8 characters, an ending length indicator, N, is set to a value of four at step 28, and the first 4-character ending, Ni, is loaded into the register 22, at step 30. A comparison is then made at step 32, to determine whether the two sets of characters in the registers 20 and 22 match one another. If a match occurs, the word token, minus the last N characters, in this case the last four characters, is stored in the buffer 23, at step 34.
If no match occurred at step 32, a determination is made at step 36 whether the last known ending of length N has been evaluated. If not, an index value, i, is incremented at step 38, and the process returns to step 30. The procedure continues to loop through steps 30, 32, 36 and 38 until a match is found, or all of the endings of length N have been tested. If the last ending is reached without a match, the ending length indicator N is decremented by one, and the index i is reset, at step 40. A determination is then made at step 42 whether the indicator N is equal to zero. In the example described herein, the decremented indicator N is equal to 3, and therefore the process proceeds to step 44, where a zero character is loaded into the last position of the register 20, as illustrated in FIG. 3b.
Thereafter, the process returns to step 30, and continues to loop through steps 30, 32, 36 and 38, to compare all of the 3-character endings to the word token. If no match is found for a 3-character ending, the ending length indicator N is again decremented at step 40, and another zero is loaded into the register 20, at step 44. The 2-character and single-character endings are compared to the word token in a similar manner. If a match is found at any point, the matching ending is removed from the word token, and the remainder is stored in the buffer 23 as the stem, at step 34. If no match is found for any of the known endings, the indicator N is eventually decremented to a value of 0, which is detected at step 42. At this point, the entire word token is stored in the buffer 23, at step 34.
Returning to step 26, if the length of the word token is less than 8 characters, a determination is made at step 46 whether the length is equal to 7 characters. If so, the ending length indicator N is set to a value of three at step 48, and a zero is loaded into the register 20 at step 50. The process then proceeds to step 30, to test all of the 3-character endings, in the manner described above.
If the word token has a length less than 7 characters, additional length determinations are carried out at steps 52 and 54. If the word token has a length of 6 or 5 characters, the ending length indicator N is set to the value of 2 or 1, respectively, and the appropriate number of zero characters are loaded into the register 20. Consequently, testing is only carried out for the known endings whose lengths are appropriate for the current word token. If, at step 54, the length of the word token is determined to be less than 5 characters, the token is immediately stored in the buffer, at step 56, without any further processing.
Referring again to FIG. 2, after each word token has been reduced to a stem, as appropriate, it is passed from the buffer 23 to an indexer 60. The indexer operates in a conventional fashion to create an index 62. Basically, each word token, or stem, that is presented to the indexer 60 is compared with all of the entries in the index 62. If no matching entry is found, that word token is added to the index, along with the identification of the document in which it appeared. In addition to the document itself, the index might identify the specific location of the word token within the document. If, on the other hand, a matching entry already exists in the index, the identification of the document, and optionally the location of the word token in the document, is added to that entry in the index.
Once the index has been created, the documents which were processed can be searched for relevant content. To do so, the user constructs a query 64, containing terms that relate to the topic in which the user is interested. The text string of the query undergoes the same tokenization and stemming processes. In this case, however, the word tokens and stems are not processed by the indexer 60. Rather, they are presented to a search engine 66, which compares them against the entries in the index 62. For each document that is identified by matching entries in the index 62, a relevance score is computed, using any suitable conventional technique. The document identifications are then displayed to the user on the display 5, preferably in order of their computed relevance.
Relevance-ranked searching inherently involves a certain amount of "fuzziness", or uncertainty, in the displayed results. The degree of fuzziness is dependent upon the technique that is used to compute the relevance score. Users are typically willing to accept this uncertainty, because it provides a useful tool for identifying which ones of a number of selected documents are most likely to be relevant to the user's interest. The tokenization and stemming techniques that are provided by the present invention increase the degree of fuzziness to some extent. As a result, useful searches can be carried out across a number of different languages within a single software configuration. In particular, by using a less rigid criterion for the terms that are employed during the indexing and searching processes, to accommodate stems that may not be recognized words, the constraints imposed by search systems that are tailored to the dictionary of a single language can be avoided. The tokenization and stemming technique of the present invention is independent of any possible combination of languages that may occur in the text of interest, thereby providing the ability to support multiple, mixed languages in a single configuration. Furthermore, it avoids the need to identify the language of a document prior to indexing and searching.
When the results are displayed to the user, it is common to display the terms from the documents which match those in the query. In the context of the present invention, since the matching terms are likely to be word stems, it is desirable to reconstruct a complete word for display to the user. In one approach, the ending that is added to the matching stem can be the one that was removed from the word token in the user's query to create the stem. Therefore, a buffer is used to store the endings that are removed during the stemming of the query, for later display purposes. If two or more different word tokens in the query result in the same stem, any one of the removed endings can be arbitrarily chosen for subsequent display, e.g. the first removed ending.
As an alternative, or in addition, it is possible to store one ending with each stem that forms an entry in the index. For instance, whenever a stem is added to the index, the ending that was initially removed to create that entry is stored along with the stem, for later reconstruction of a complete word for display. This approach is particularly useful for searches in which there is no explicit user query, such as a search for documents which are similar to an example document.
While the foregoing approaches do not provide the same level of exactitude as conventional systems which display the precise words in each document that were located in a search, they offer increased efficiency and smaller index files. Since the typical user is primarily concerned with overall document content, rather than exact words, the displayed results are satisfactory in terms of meeting those needs.
It will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that the present invention can be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. While an exemplary embodiment of the invention has been described with reference to languages that are based upon the Roman alphabet, the principles which underlie the invention are equally applicable to languages associated with other alphabets. The presently disclosed embodiments are therefore considered in all respects to be illustrative, and not restrictive. The scope of the invention is indicated by the appended claims, rather than the foregoing description, and all changes that come within the meaning and range of equivalence thereof are intended to be embraced therein.
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I felt so present this morning. In good spirits. We all slept so deeply. We had the windows open and a cool breeze floated through the house the whole night long.
It is also the fifth day at Summer Soul Camp with Heather Bruggeman from Beauty That Moves. I've never met so many cool Campers and Heather does not let down as Camp Leader. I've read her inspirational blog for years and her Camp is just as divine. I am also loving every single postcard that comes my way.
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Lightweight and protein-packed, this homemade dehydrated chili is vegan and gluten-free. Fresh Off the Grid contributors Kira & Brendon Hak of Adventure Haks share how to make one of their favorite backpacking meals.
Life on the road or in the backcountry can use up a lot of energy so it is essential for any adventurer to eat meals packed full of nutrients for restoration. At the end of a full day of adventures, when the sun is setting and the air begins to cool, nothing beats a hearty and warm bowl of chili.
This has been our go-to vegetarian chili recipe for years so when we decided to try dehydrating our own meals this was one of the first recipes in the line-up. A healthy, convenient, and quality meal for anyone on the go!
Have your own favourite chili recipe? Perfect! Throw all of the ingredients into a pot, but omit the water and/or broth. Heat & Cool. Dehydrate. Package and plan your next adventure!
Quinoa ChiliPRINT RECIPE
- 1/2 cup uncooked quinoa
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large onion diced
- 6 cloves garlic minced
- 2 cans diced tomatoes 28 oz total
- 1 (398 mL / 14oz) can tomato sauce
- 1 can diced green chiles *Optional
- 2 1/2 tablespoons chili powder
- 2 teaspoons cumin
- 2 teaspoons cacao powder (cocoa works too)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon cane sugar (or any sugar you have on hand)
- 1/2 teaspoon coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper *Optional
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 (12 fl oz) can corn drained & rinsed
- 2 (19 fl oz) cans kidney beans drained & rinsed
- 1 (19 fl oz) can black beans drained & rinsed
- Cook 1/2 cup quinoa as per directions on bag & set aside (makes 2 cups cooked).
- Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Once the oil is hot add the onion and cook until tender, add garlic for the last few seconds.
- Add diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, cooked quinoa, chili powder, cumin, cacao, paprika, sugar, coriander, salt, and pepper. Add the chiles & cayenne if you like it spicy.
- Bring to a boil and then reduce to a simmer for 30 minutes.
- Add in corn and beans, cook until heated through.
- Remove from heat and let the chili cool.
- Spread evenly onto dehydrator trays. Dry at 145F/63C for 8-10 hours. Chili is done when the beans are dry.
- Evenly package into 6 servings, in air-tight containers (like ziplock bags) or vacuum seal. Store in a cool, dark & dry place.
- Pour dry chili into the pot; add 1 cup water per serving and stir well. Bring to a boil. Simmer, stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes.
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9g fat
82g carbohydrates
22g protein
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The rest of the country's knishless population may be distraught, but if you live in the Bay Area, you can relax. We have our own knishes — and we're handy in the kitchen, too.
Like any tradition-laden food, there are infinite variations on the knish theme, from what's inside to how it's prepared — baked vs. fried. San Francisco chef Ramni Levy's year-old King Knish does modern riffs, with a line of the tasty Eastern European dough dumplings that includes traditional potato, wasabi and potato with crystallized ginger, and a pastrami version, too.
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Make your own knishes at home and you decide what to tuck inside. Washington, D.C., chef Todd Gray, author of "The New Jewish Table" (St. Martin's Press, $35, 326 pages), offers up a modern twist that adds garlic, ricotta and Parmesan to the mix.
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Soon neighbors begin to disappear - only to reappear as the lifeless centerpieces of unspeakable displays. Convulsed with terror, the townsfolk whisper of the legendary Curse of the Forty-fives. No one is safe from a killer who stalks his prey in the blackness of night...and whose grotesque crimes are revealed by circling buzzards under the cruel summer sun.
With the help of Corrie Swanson, an eighteen-year-old misfit, Pendergast unearths the secrets of this isolated town - from the dark histories of its inhabitants to the darker mysteries hidden in the endless cornfields. And ultimately, as he unravels the local curse and the truth of Medicine Creek's greatest enigma, the Ghost Warrior Massacre of 1865, Pendergast comes face-to-face with the unimaginable evil that lies at the heart of this small town.
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"Still Life an excellent work from Lincoln & Child"
I have read/listened to every book that has been published by the dynamic duo of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Only one has yet to even slightly disapoint me. This is not that book! The authors have created some very interesting characters in their books, one of my favorites being FBI Special Agent Pendergast. He is one of the most enigmatic characters I'm met so far. In this story, agent Pendergast travels to rural Kansas to investigate a grizzly murder. Turns out, the murderer is a possible serial killer. With the style used in their previous books, Preston and Child weave one heck of a story laden with the supernatural and possibly some natural history. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good, edge of your seat thriller.
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"Boxes" – or – "What Do TV-Free Kids Do Without Saturday Morning Cartoons?"
Today I am uninspired as to a post. Yesterday's rather philosophical post ("Why Am I Doing This?") wore out my few remaining brain cells.
People always ask me, what my kids do with their time without TV. So perhaps today I will just post some pictures about what my kids are up to these days with all those boxes I am saving for my future fame and fortune on Ebay. Who really needs all those pricey toys anyway?
3 Responses to ""Boxes" – or – "What Do TV-Free Kids Do Without Saturday Morning Cartoons?""
I love these photos! So different from the "boxes" many kids are paying attention to on Saturday mornings! My very-low-TV, if not TV-free, brother always tells his kids to "BEWARE THE BOX!" He wants them to be aware of what a life-sucking device the television can be! Well, I don't think the boxes of your unplugged kids would worry my brother one bit!
Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful! We are TV free too and have been for about nine years, the age of my oldest child. I did let them watch movies (once in a while) for years but we have phased that almost completely out too.
My kid's best friends are bugs, sticks and mud. Much better than the evil boxes!
Good to read that I am not the only one saving boxes for possible ebay sales. lol. The interior photo of the box is darling. My dd3 hasn't really started creating a world from boxes. She mostly plays with the band of ten monkeys that follow her everywhere.


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We headed to ward Hong Kong City Park for a nice walk through the grounds. It's a popular spot for weddings so don't be surprised to see 10+ bridal parties wandering around taking wedding pictures. After our walk through the park, we found ourselves at the beginning of a walking tour that we followed in the Lonely Planet guide book for Hong Kong and Macau.
I had read about a restaurant in a travel magazine called the Classified Mozzerella Bar. Intrigued by a love of all things Mozzerella, we stopped by. It was in Wan Chai but didn't take too long to get there by taxi. It's a small restaurant with communal seating (two large tables). It's a great place for sharing a few dishes and a glass of wine.
In the afternoon, we took the tram to the Peak for a daytime view of Hong Kong this time. It was, again, spectacular, and the clear day helped us see how big Hong Kong really was.
We ended the day with a trip to the outlet mall, Citygate Outlets, in Tung Chung for some shopping. If you want to go, access is easy: take the MTR to the end of the line, Tung Chung Station.
We rounded out our trip by having dim sum the next morning at Maxim's Palace in City Hall.
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'Real time' or 'near real time' testing of soil samples would allow growers to make vital management decisions close to the time of planting. For this reason, the GRDC is examining the potential for new R&D investments involving tractor- and implement-mounted soil probes, or totally new approaches that don't suffer from the time lags and delays of current laboratorybased procedures. These might, for example, enable growers to measure the soil nitrogen available at the time of sowing and to adjust starter N rates accordingly. The ability to map available soil water, or surface pH, could also assist crop selection and sowing decisions.
While there are risks involved in such research, the potential pay-offs are highespecially with many growers moving to precision agriculture farming methods, which allow them to target fertiliser or other treatments directly to high- and low-producing areas in paddocks. This area of R&D is considered by some to still be 'blue sky', but recent advances in sensing technology have brought practical application much closer. The GRDC is undertaking a review of recent advances in order to identify and rank research opportunities - these will then be addressed in the Corporation's investment plan for 2004-05.
GRDC has also called for research proposals in the western and southern regions into the impact of subsoil constraints and practical methods that growers can use to address these limitations. Subsoil barriers to the growth and efficient functioning of crop roots such as natural chemical toxicities, salinity, acidity and impermeable soil layers have a great affect on productivity and profits in many of the soils in Australia's southern and western grainbelts. As growers have learnt to combat 'surface' problems of weeds, pests and diseases, these subsoil barriers have become a major impediment to continued improvements in yield and returns.
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Stimulation Meds – Day 8
For starters, Happy Easter. Not much to report today. Jess still feels the same although the medicine is helping the pain from the migraines. We went for breakfast at her moms house, and dinner at my moms house. We had to do the injections at my mom's house which was the first time we did them away from home. I don't think anyone even noticed or if they did they didn't care. It didn't phase us one bit, because we are like a machine now when it comes to the injections. We both have specific tasks that come together in the end for the shots.
I have to mention that it was a really good day for the dog today. With all that has been going on, we haven't had much time to get her out of the house (weather has been sucking too!). She came with us to both houses and had a blast. She was so tired when she got home she plopped down on the couch and was out!
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- ABOUT The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada has been successfully representing working people in British Columbia since 1948. ILWU Canada is the exclusive bargaining agent for over 3,000 men and women throughout the province. The ILWU Canada is a union made up of the 12 autonomous Locals of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, and three affiliates: the Retail Wholesale Union (British Columbia), the Retail Wholesale Department Store Union (Saskatchewan), and the Grain Services Union (Saskatchewan). We are a rank-and-file union. We encourage membership participation in the affairs of the Union, and we represent our members in numerous forums of interest on the Federal, Provincial and Municipal scenes. The ILWU Canada Longshore Division is involved in the loading, unloading and checking of cargo to and from vessels, and the storage of these goods on the docks and in warehouses. We handle cargo such as: Forest Products: lumber, pulp, craft, woodchips, logs. Bulk Ores: coal, sulphur, zinc, lead, copper, phosrock, potash, pellets. Liquid Bulk: methanol, glycol, styrene, seed oil. Grains. Containers. Break Bulk: steel, ingots and general cargo. ILWU Canada has over a half century of experience, skill, and success in making things better for working people like you.
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Paralympians struggle to attract sponsorship
Australia's Paralympics team is hopeful of an even bigger haul of medals than last time, but is worried about a decline in corporate interest.
Organisers of the Paralympics say the event is growing in popularity and is now one of the biggest sporting events outside of the Olympics.
But in Australia, the growth of Paralympic sports is not translating into increased corporate sponsorships.
Members of the team do not consider themselves disabled athletes - they just say they have had a few more obstacles to overcome to get to the top of their chosen sports.
Jayme Paris was not expected to live when she was born with the neurological disorder cerebellar ataxia.
Now she is off to Beijing to represent Australia in cycling.
"I was thinking about it on the way over and thought I was there four years ago, welcoming back my team-mates who are in this team, and I thought wow, I'm leaving today and going to do what they're doing and it just feels great," she said.
Kurt Fearnley is representing Australia in the marathon at the Paralympics. He says it is a great feeling to have the whole country behind him.
"I think that it is always great to get the feedback from home and it is always fun, you know, to get there and to know that Australia is behind us," he said.
At the last Paralympics, Australia won 101 medals. The team is confident it can win more at this Games.
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Australia Paralympic Committee president Greg Hartung says Australia has a gifted group of athletes.
"This is the best away team we have assembled. They are big on talent and big on toughness, so we will expect our athletes to perform at peak," he said.
And Mr Hartung says it is expected that this year's Paralympics will be watched by an unprecedented number of people across the world.
"There will be unquestionably the biggest viewing audience worldwide and indeed in Australia for these Games," he said.
"We expect 1.8 billion viewing audience for a Paralympic event. We expect 1.6 million people to go through the turnstiles in Beijing."
However there are concerns the increase in popularity of the Paralympics is not translating into support for the athletes by the corporate sector.
Australia's Paralympic team is funded by the Federal Government, but also relies heavily on donations and corporate sponsorship.
But this year, Paralympic organisers say they have been underwhelmed by the amount of companies sponsoring the team and disability sports in general.
Wheelchair Sports NSW chief executive Jim O'Brien says there has been a general downturn in sponsorship for able-bodied and disabled, right across the board.
"I think we have seen that in a number of areas and people struggling to get adequate levels of sponsorship," he said.
Mr O'Brien puts it down to tougher economic conditions and companies needing higher profile sports to get a return on their money.
"I think they want to see a return for their investment. A lot of organisations want to see that the money they are getting in, the money they are putting in for sponsorship will see a return for them," he said.
"I think a lot of the time we just can't provide that."
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The New Jersey Devils have missed the playoffs in two of the last three seasons and as we approach the off-season, there are plenty of questions surrounding free agency. The Devils have several big names that will become unrestricted free agents come this July. They are Patrik Elias, David Clarkson, Dainius Zubrus, Alexei Ponikarovsky, Steve Sullivan, Tom Kostopoulos, Peter Harrold and Marek Zidlicky.
With that many players going into free agency, there's no way they will all remain in the New Jersey organization and the Devils president and general manager, Lou Lamoriello, has big decisions to make this off-season; decisions that could change the dynamic of the entire team. Perhaps the least expendable to the Devils out of that entire group would be Patrik Elias and David Clarkson.
Although Clarkson is average, at best, and has just come off an average season recording 24 points (15G, 9A) in the 48 games he played. He also adds some grit to the lineup and the one who patrols the ice for the Devils.
Elias also had an average season this season as well tallying 36 points (14G, 22A) in the 48 games he played during the shortened season, but what makes him an important part of the team is that he has played his entire career with New Jersey as well as won two Stanley Cups with them.
Regardless of whom the Devils sign this coming off-season, the entire team dynamic will definitely be changed and that may not necessarily be a bad thing.
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