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Sources suggest the sequel to the Dynasty Warriors action game is on track for a PS2 release in Japan.
Sources suggest the sequel to the Dynasty Warriors action game is on track for a PS2 release in Japan.
Koei's Samurai Warriors expansion is now available exclusively for the PS2, with four new characters, new game modes, and new items.
Pseudo-sequel to ancient Japan action game can link up with original for extra features, remixed abilities.
CESA releases a preliminary list of TGS exhibitors and their games for this year's show.
Koei announces that the PS2-exclusive expansion will hit North American stores this November.
Koei announces the North American release of Omega Force's tactical action game for the Xbox.
The new edition of Koei's tactical hack-and-slasher will feature four new heroes, two new modes, and the usual gameplay tweaks.
Latest iteration of Dynasty Warriors series from Koei hits stores on July 13.
EA announces that is has shipped the PS2 version of Koei's historical action game to stores across North America.
Enjoy some plot development and ninja action, all rolled into one clip.
Though Oichi isn't your typical samurai warrior, she can still cut through the enemy with the best of them.
Koei announces that its historical tactical action game is headed to the Xbox as well as the PS2 this summer.
Electronic Arts announces that it will distribute Koei's tactical action game in Europe later this year.
Koei is first PS2 title to reach the sales milestone in 2004.
Koei reveals three new characters from its upcoming tactical strategy game. First screens inside.
Koei confirms that its PS2 tactical action game, known as Sengoku Musou in Japan, will be released in North America under a new title in 2004.
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Comic-Con kicks off in San Diego
SAN DIEGO -- Downtown San Diego has been converted into a "nerd mecca," according to comic enthusiasts.
San Diego Comic-Con officially gets underway Thursday.
Approximately 130,000 comic-book lovers are expected to take part in some or all of the festivities.
The lucky individuals who were able to land the much-coveted four-day passes are certainly in for treat.
"The attendance has gone up, which makes it darn near impossible to get four-day passes," said Jeff Pina of Samurai Comics in the Valley. "The last two years, four-day passes were gone in 30 seconds."

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The snow just keeps coming.
It is Canada after all, and it is winter.
But some people never get used to it.
"People need to just complain to the deity of their choice about the fact that it just continues to snow," said frustrated Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi as he recently faced a storm of complaints about snow-clogged streets and back alleys.
The deities don't appear to be listening.
But the police are certainly responding: during a furious blizzard that hit the city in early December the Calgary Police Service say that within 24 hours 118 injury and 1,743 noninjury motor vehicle crashes were reported.
The Alberta Motor Association (AMA) which provides assistance for stuck or stranded motorists had 350 calls in the queue … and that was just to get the call answered never mind actually setting up a time for a tow truck to ride to the rescue.
Calgary has had so much snow the city has already spent almost three quarters of its snow removal budget and we still have January and February — usually heavy snowfall months — to contend with.
Auto body shops are jammed with dented and smashed cars: "We've never seen snowfalls and blizzards this early in the season in the auto body industry," one appraiser told The Calgary Herald.
In Edmonton they have a different attitude toward snow: some Edmontonians are actually harvesting it.
At La Cité francophone — a hub of cultural activities, services and businesses for the French community — they are using it to sculpt snow walls, construct toboggan slides, and as a backdrop for light shows.
"We need our snow, because winter is festival season. Edmontonians have to embrace winter, to get out and enjoy it," Daniel Cournoyer, La Cité's executive director told the Edmonton Journal.
La Cité has even set up an outdoor bistro — Café Bicyclette — which has a patio with fireplaces, propane heaters, and most important of all seat warmers that will keep your tush warm for hours.
"On a nice winter day, who would want to be indoors? We have a liquor license, so we need to have an enclosure, and this snow wall will do that," Cournoyer said.
In February La Cité will host the Flying Canoe festival. Last year the festival featured a Métis base camp, where hundreds of people were able to learn a traditional dance to live music.
Snow is also quite welcome in the mountains — the more the better. And this year resorts and ski hill operators are ecstatic about the white stuff that keeps falling from the sky.
Three ski-hills near Banff — Mount Norquay, Sunshine Village and Lake Louise — were gifted with so much snow they opened up the slopes the first week of November. Some heli-skiing areas in British Columbia boast 1,400 cm. (46 feet) of snow over the season.
In the mountains snow not only provides a stunning backdrop, it is also good for the economy.
But for those of us who associate snow with the sound of the shovel grating on the sidewalk and a mighty heft as we pile it somewhere else (hopefully not on the road), a University of Calgary researcher has some advice.
We can alleviate the sore muscles and aching back by using those funny-looking, bent-shaft shovels, says Ryan Lewinson, a U of C biomedical engineering graduate.
"We were primarily interested in looking at lower back flexion to see how much bending people were doing when using one type of snow shovel or the other," explains Lewinson. "What we found is that when you use the bent shaft snow shovel, you don't bend over quite as much."
The study, published in the latest edition of Applied Ergonomics, found that the bent-shaft shovel reduces mechanical loads on the lower back by 16 per cent which can amount to quite a difference during half an hour of shovelling.
The other solution, at least in Calgary, is to pray to the deities for a warm chinook wind, so the snow will simply melt way.
Gillian Steward is a Calgary writer and journalist and former managing editor of the Calgary Herald. Her column appears every other week.
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This example compares favorably to the Eliasberg specimen, a coin that was unquestionably a proof example. The strike on each is nearly identical, with only slightly more sharpness on a few of the stars and the eagle's claws on the Eliasberg coin. The surfaces are lightly and naturally toned with golden color over nearly all of the obverse and much of the reverse. Also like the Eliasberg example, this coin shows evidence of light die polish, suggesting the possibility of a proof strike, or one of the first impressions after the few proofs were minted.
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7/28/2014 (Updated 11:00:26 PM)When you're elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, you first have to get over the shock and the emotion. Once the idea starts to settle in, you have to start thinking about who you're going to thank. That's a rather tall order for most players, and even tougher for managers who usually have a full playing career and coaching career worth of people to thank. For Hall of Famer Joe Torre, the list is extensive, so it's understandable if he forgets a few people.
Torre played for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves from 1960-68, so there's them. He then played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1969-1974, the New York Mets from 1975-1977. Then the Mets hired him as player/manager in 1977 where he coached until 1981. He went back to Atlanta from 1982-1984, back to St. Louis from 1990-1995. Then, in November of '95 "The Boss" came calling. George Steinbrenner hired Torre as the manager of the Yankees and in his first year, Torre delivered a World Series Title to the Bronx. He followed that up with three straight from '98-'00. After the 2007 season, Torre and the Yankees had a very publicized split and Torre headed west to the Dodgers where he managed from 2008 until his retirement in 2010.
That's a long career of people to thank. He managed to get in almost everyone, but largely forgot one of the most important people to thank. George Steinbrenner.
After the ceremony, all of the inductees headed into the Clark Sports Center gymnasium, transformed into the media center, for the press conference. Before any question was asked, Torre took some time to address the blunder.
"I missed mentioning and thanking the most obvious guy in the world when you talk about the Yankees. I mentioned George [Steinbrenner] but I didn't give him what my plan was to just thank him," he began. "It was just the proudest time of my career and I just feel terrible that I didn't give him the thanks he deserved."
Torre said that thanking Steinbrenner was such an obvious decision that he simply forgot.
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text: DSpace Collection: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/3778 2015-07-06T16:21:03Z Boosting terminology extraction through crosslingual resources http://hdl.handle.net/2117/24881 Title: Boosting terminology extraction through crosslingual resources Authors: Cajal Mariñosa, Sergio; Rodríguez Hontoria, Horacio Abstract: Terminology Extraction is an important Natural Language Processing task with multiple applications in many areas. The task has been approached from different points of view using different techniques. Language and domain independent systems have been proposed as well. Our contribution in this paper focuses on the improvements on Terminology Extraction using crosslingual resources and specifically the Wikipedia and on the use of a variant of PageRank for scoring the candidate terms. // La extracción de terminología es una tarea de procesamiento de la lengua sumamente importante y aplicable en numerosas áreas. La tarea se ha abordado desde múltiples perspectivas y utilizando técnicas diversas. También se han propuesto sistemas independientes de la lengua y del dominio. La contribución de este artículo se centra en las mejoras que los sistemas de extracción de terminología pueden lograr utilizando recursos translingües, y concretamente la Wikipedia y en el uso de una variante de PageRank para valorar los candidatos a término 2014-11-28T12:02:59Z ParTes. Test suite for parsing evaluation http://hdl.handle.net/2117/24519 Title: ParTes. Test suite for parsing evaluation Authors: Lloberes Salvatella, Marina; Castellón Masalles, Irene; Padró, Lluís; González Pellicer, Edgar Abstract: This paper presents ParTes, the first test suite in Spanish and Catalan for parsing qualitative evaluation. This resource is a hierarchical test suite of the representative syntactic structure and argument order phenomena. ParTes proposes a simplification of the qualitative evaluation by contributing to the automatization of this task. © 2014 Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. 2014-10-30T17:43:19Z A hybrid machine translation architecture guided by syntax http://hdl.handle.net/2117/24404 Title: A hybrid machine translation architecture guided by syntax Authors: Labaka, Gorka; España Bonet, Cristina; Màrquez Villodre, Lluís; Sarasola, Kepa Abstract: This article presents a hybrid architecture which combines rule-based machine translation (RBMT) with phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT). The hybrid translation system is guided by the rule-based engine. Before the transfer step, a varied set of partial candidate translations is calculated with the SMT system and used to enrich the tree-based representation with more translation alternatives. The final translation is constructed by choosing the most probable combination among the available fragments using monotone statistical decoding following the order provided by the rule-based system. We apply the hybrid model to a pair of distantly related languages, Spanish and Basque, and perform extensive experimentation on two different corpora. According to our empirical evaluation, the hybrid approach outperforms the best individual system across a varied set of automatic translation evaluation metrics. Following some output analysis to better understand the behaviour of the hybrid system, we explore the possibility of adding alternative parse trees and extra features to the hybrid decoder. Finally, we present a twofold manual evaluation of the translation systems studied in this paper, consisting of (i) a pairwise output comparison and (ii) a individual task-oriented evaluation using HTER. Interestingly, the manual evaluation shows some contradictory results with respect to the automatic evaluation; humans tend to prefer the translations from the RBMT system over the statistical and hybrid translations. 2014-10-17T09:24:08Z Automatic Selection of HPSG-Parsed Sentences for Treebank Construction http://hdl.handle.net/2117/24384 Title: Automatic Selection of HPSG-Parsed Sentences for Treebank Construction Authors: Marimon, Montserrat; Bel, Nuria; Padró, Lluís Abstract: This article presents an ensemble parse approach to detecting and selecting high-quality linguistic analyses output by a hand-crafted HPSG grammar of Spanish implemented in the LKB system. The approach uses full agreement (i.e., exact syntactic match) along with a MaxEnt parse selection model and a statistical dependency parser trained on the same data. The ultimate goal is to develop a hybrid corpus annotation methodology that combines fully automatic annotation and manual parse selection, in order to make the annotation task more efficient while maintaining high accuracy and the high degree of consistency necessary for any foreseen uses of a treebank. 2014-10-16T15:42:58Z Document-level machine translation as a re-translation process http://hdl.handle.net/2117/24167 Title: Document-level machine translation as a re-translation process Authors: Martínez Garcia, Eva; España Bonet, Cristina; Màrquez Villodre, Lluís Abstract: Most of the current Machine Translation systems are designed to translate a document sentence by sentence ignoring discourse information and producing incoherencies in the final translations. In this paper we present some document-level-oriented post-processes to improve translations' coherence and consistency. Incoherences are detected and new partial translations are proposed. The work focuses on studying two phenomena: words with inconsistent translations throughout a text and also, gender and number agreement among words. Since we deal with specific phenomena, an automatic evaluation does not reflect significant variations in the translations. However, improvements are observed through a manual evaluation. 2014-09-26T07:06:22Z Spectral learning of weighted automata: a forward-backward perspective http://hdl.handle.net/2117/21075 Title: Spectral learning of weighted automata: a forward-backward perspective Authors: Balle Pigem, Borja de; Carreras Pérez, Xavier; Luque, Franco M.; Quattoni, Ariadna Julieta Abstract: In recent years we have seen the development of efficient provably correct algorithms for learning Weighted Finite Automata (WFA). Most of these algorithms avoid the known hardness results by defining parameters beyond the number of states that can be used to quantify the complexity of learning automata under a particular distribution. One such class of methods are the so-called spectral algorithms that measure learning complexity in terms of the smallest singular value of some Hankel matrix. However, despite their simplicity and wide applicability to real problems, their impact in application domains remains marginal to this date. One of the goals of this paper is to remedy this situation by presenting a derivation of the spectral method for learning WFA that—without sacrificing rigor and mathematical elegance—puts emphasis on providing intuitions on the inner workings of the method and does not assume a strong background in formal algebraic methods. In addition, our algorithm overcomes some of the shortcomings of previous work and is able to learn from statistics of substrings. To illustrate the approach we present experiments on a real application of the method to natural language parsing. 2013-12-20T11:07:41Z A Constraint-Based Hypergraph Partitioning Approach to Coreference Resolution http://hdl.handle.net/2117/20965 Title: A Constraint-Based Hypergraph Partitioning Approach to Coreference Resolution Authors: Sapena Masip, Emilio; Padró, Lluís; Turmo Borras, Jorge Abstract: This work is focused on research in machine learning for coreference resolution. Coreference resolution is a natural language processing task that consists of determining the expressions in a discourse that refer to the same entity. The main contributions of this article are (i) a new approach to coreference resolution based on constraint satisfaction, using a hypergraph to represent the problem and solving it by relaxation labeling; and (ii) research towards improving coreference resolution performance using world knowledge extracted from Wikipedia. The developed approach is able to use an entity-mention classification model with more expressiveness than the pair-based ones, and overcome the weaknesses of previous approaches in the state of the art such as linking contradictions, classifications without context, and lack of information evaluating pairs. Furthermore, the approach allows the incorporation of new information by adding constraints, and research has been done in order to use world knowledge to improve performances. RelaxCor, the implementation of the approach, achieved results at the state-of-the-art level, and participated in international competitions: SemEval-2010 and CoNLL-2011. RelaxCor achieved second place in CoNLL-2011. 2013-12-10T19:11:30Z Plagiarism meets paraphrasing: insights for the next generation in automatic plagiarism detection http://hdl.handle.net/2117/20297 Title: Plagiarism meets paraphrasing: insights for the next generation in automatic plagiarism detection Authors: Barrón Cedeño, Luis Alberto; Vila, Marta; Martí, Maria Antonia; Rosso, Paolo Abstract: Although paraphrasing is the linguistic mechanism underlying many plagiarism cases, little attention has been paid to its analysis in the framework of automatic plagiarism detection. Therefore, state-of-the-art plagiarism detectors find it difficult to detect cases of paraphrase plagiarism. In this article, we analyze the relationship between paraphrasing and plagiarism, paying special attention to which paraphrase phenomena underlie acts of plagiarism and which of them are detected by plagiarism detection systems. With this aim in mind, we created the P4P corpus, a new resource that uses a paraphrase typology to annotate a subset of the PAN-PC-10 corpus for automatic plagiarism detection. The results of the Second International Competition on Plagiarism Detection were analyzed in the light of this annotation. The presented experiments show that (i) more complex paraphrase phenomena and a high density of paraphrase mechanisms make plagiarism detection more difficult, (ii) lexical substitutions are the paraphrase mechanisms used the most when plagiarizing, and (iii) paraphrase mechanisms tend to shorten the plagiarized text. For the first time, the paraphrase mechanisms behind plagiarism have been analyzed, providing critical insights for the improvement of automatic plagiarism detection systems. 2013-10-04T08:32:27Z Methods for cross-language plagiarism detection http://hdl.handle.net/2117/20275 Title: Methods for cross-language plagiarism detection Authors: Barrón Cedeño, Luis Alberto; Gupta, P.; Rosso, Paolo Abstract: Three reasons make plagiarism across languages to be on the rise: (i) speakers of under-resourced languages often consult documentation in a foreign language, (ii) people immersed in a foreign country can still consult material written in their native language, and (iii) people are often interested in writing in a language different to their native one. Most efforts for automatically detecting cross-language plagiarism depend on a preliminary translation, which is not always available. In this paper we propose a freely available architecture for plagiarism detection across languages covering the entire process: heuristic retrieval, detailed analysis, and post-processing. On top of this architecture we explore the suitability of three cross-language similarity estimation models: Cross-Language Alignment-based Similarity Analysis (CL-ASA), Cross-Language Character n-Grams (CL-CNG), and Translation plus Monolingual Analysis (T + MA); three inherently different models in nature and required resources. The three models are tested extensively under the same conditions on the different plagiarism detection sub-tasks—something never done before. The experiments show that T+MA produces the best results, closely followed by CL-ASA. Still CL-ASA obtains higher values of precision, an important factor in plagiarism detection when lesser user intervention is desired. 2013-10-03T10:02:00Z Joint arc-factored parsing of syntactic and semantic dependencies http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19808 Title: Joint arc-factored parsing of syntactic and semantic dependencies Authors: Lluis Martorell, Xavier; Carreras Pérez, Xavier; Màrquez Villodre, Lluís Abstract: In this paper we introduce a joint arc-factored model for syntactic and semantic dependency parsing. The semantic role labeler predicts the full syntactic paths that connect predicates with their arguments. This process is framed as a linear assignment task, which allows to control some well-formedness constraints. For the syntactic part, we define a standard arc-factored dependency model that predicts the full syntactic tree. Finally, we employ dual decomposition techniques to produce consistent syntactic and predicate-argument structures while searching over a large space of syntactic configurations. In experiments on the CoNLL-2009 English benchmark we observe very competitive results. 2013-07-04T11:19:31Z The Evolution of the exponent of Zipf's law in language ontogeny http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19413 Title: The Evolution of the exponent of Zipf's law in language ontogeny Authors: Baixeries i Juvillà, Jaume; Elvevag, Brita; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon Abstract: It is well-known that word frequencies arrange themselves according to Zipf's law. However, little is known about the dependency of the parameters of the law and the complexity of a communication system. Many models of the evolution of language assume that the exponent of the law remains constant as the complexity of a communication systems increases. Using longitudinal studies of child language, we analysed the word rank distribution for the speech of children and adults participating in conversations. The adults typically included family members (e.g., parents) or the investigators conducting the research. Our analysis of the evolution of Zipf's law yields two main unexpected results. First, in children the exponent of the law tends to decrease over time while this tendency is weaker in adults, thus suggesting this is not a mere mirror effect of adult speech. Second, although the exponent of the law is more stable in adults, their exponents fall below 1 which is the typical value of the exponent assumed in both children and adults. Our analysis also shows a tendency of the mean length of utterances (MLU), a simple estimate of syntactic complexity, to increase as the exponent decreases. The parallel evolution of the exponent and a simple indicator of syntactic complexity (MLU) supports the hypothesis that the exponent of Zipf's law and linguistic complexity are inter-related. The assumption that Zipf's law for word ranks is a power-law with a constant exponent of one in both adults and children needs to be revised. 2013-05-27T14:04:20Z The parameters of Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19025 Title: The parameters of Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes Authors: Baixeries i Juvillà, Jaume; Hernández Fernández, Antonio; Forns, Núria; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon Abstract: The relationship between the size of the whole and the size of the parts in language and music is known to follow the Menzerath-Altmann law at many levels of description (morphemes, words, sentences, …). Qualitatively, the law states that the larger the whole, the smaller its parts, e.g. the longer a word (in syllables) the shorter its syllables (in letters or phonemes). This patterning has also been found in genomes: the longer a genome (in chromosomes), the shorter its chromosomes (in base pairs). However, it has been argued recently that mean chromosome length is trivially a pure power function of chromosome number with an exponent of -1. The functional dependency between mean chromosome size and chromosome number in groups of organisms from three different kingdoms is studied. The fit of a pure power function yields exponents between -1.6 and 0.1. It is shown that an exponent of -1 is unlikely for fungi, gymnosperm plants, insects, reptiles, ray-finned fishes and amphibians. Even when the exponent is very close to -1, adding an exponential component is able to yield a better fit with regard to a pure power-law in plants, mammals, ray-finned fishes and amphibians. The parameters of the Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes deviate significantly from a power law with a -1 exponent with the exception of birds and cartilaginous fishes. 2013-04-26T18:45:28Z The use of domain ontologies for improving the adaptability and collaborative ability of a web dialogue system http://hdl.handle.net/2117/17511 Title: The use of domain ontologies for improving the adaptability and collaborative ability of a web dialogue system Authors: González Bermúdez, Meritxell; Gatius Vila, Marta Abstract: Dialogue systems can be used for guiding the users accessing web services, enhancing the web usability. However, they are expensive to develop and difficult to adapt to different types of web services. The knowledge model of a web service can be seen as the basis to define the semantics of the information to be exchanged among the components of a dialogue system. This approach facilitates the integration of the different types of knowledge involved in human-machine communication and provides a unified framework easier to apply to new web services. Furthermore, the representation of the web service knowledge according to an ontology can enhance the reasoning capabilities of the underlying system. This article describes the use of domain ontologies in a mixed-initiative web dialogue system for improving both its adaptability and its collaborative ability. 2013-01-24T13:39:27Z Sibyl, a factoid question answering system for spoken documents http://hdl.handle.net/2117/17486 Title: Sibyl, a factoid question answering system for spoken documents Authors: Comas Umbert, Pere Ramon; Turmo Borras, Jorge; Màrquez Villodre, Lluís Abstract: In this article, we present a factoid question-answering system, Sibyl, specifically tailored for question answering (QA) on spoken-word documents. This work explores, for the first time, which techniques can be robustly adapted from the usual QA on written documents to the more difficult spoken document scenario. More specifically, we study new information retrieval (IR) techniques designed or speech, and utilize several levels of linguistic information for the speech-based QA task. These include named-entity detection with phonetic information, syntactic parsing applied to speech transcripts, and the use of coreference resolution. Sibyl is largely based on supervised machine-learning techniques, with special focus on the answer extraction step, and makes little use of handcrafted knowledge. Consequently, it should be easily adaptable to other domains and languages. Sibyl and all its modules are extensively evaluated on the European Parliament Plenary Sessions English corpus, comparing manual with automatic transcripts obtained by three different automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems that exhibit significantly different word error rates. This data belongs to the CLEF 2009 track for QA on speech transcripts. The main results confirm that syntactic information is very useful for learning to rank question candidates, improving results on both manual and automatic transcripts, unless the ASR quality is very low. At the same time, our experiments on coreference resolution reveal that the state-of-the-art technology is not mature enough to be effectively exploited for QA with spoken documents. Overall, the performance of Sibyl is comparable or better than the state-of-the-art on this corpus, confirming the validity of our approach. 2013-01-23T10:01:13Z A hybrid approach to treebank construction http://hdl.handle.net/2117/16727 Title: A hybrid approach to treebank construction Authors: Marimon, Montserrat; Padró, Lluís Abstract: Este artículo describe investigación sobre los efectos de la desambiguación morfosintáctica usada como un preproceso de un analizador sintáctico profundo basado en HPSG, en el contexto del desarrollo de un treebank del español de código abierto, en el entorno de DELPH-IN. La anotación treebank se realiza manualmente tomando las decisiones apropiadas entre las opciones propuestas por el sistema y ordenadas por un módulo estadístico. Los experimentos presentados muestran que el uso de un etiquetador reduce la ambigüedad de las frases, y contribuye a limitar la cantidad de frases cuyo análisis sobrepasa el límite de tiempo, y ayuda a al módulo estadístico a clasificar el árbol correcto entre los mejores. Por un lado, nuestros resultados validan los beneficios ya reportados en la literatura de tal preproceso de análisis profundo con respecto a la velocidad, cobertura y precisión. Por otro lado, proponemos una estrategia basada en existentes herramientas de código abierto y recursos para desarrollar con alta consitencia treebanks de sintaxis profunda para idiomas con limitada disponibilidad de recursos lingüísticos. 2012-10-16T09:42:39Z


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Reunion Retreat Registration
The 2015 YTM reunion retreat is FULL. No additional registrations will be accepted.
Opening the Door for God's Love: Recognizing the Dignity of All People
15th Annual YTM Alumni Reunion Retreat
June 19-20, 2015
All former YTM youth and counselors.
A fun-filled, faith-filled gathering that includes volleyball, a picnic, time to reconnect, and a retreat.
Rooted in the Gospel theme of Christ's radical acceptance, this retreat will explore what it means for Christians to welcome marginalized men and women.
Saint John's University (Emmaus Hall Library).
Friday, June 19
4:30pm Check-In (Summer Events Office, Mary Hall Basement)
5:30 Volleyball Tournament and Picnic
8:30 Retreat Session I
11:00 Dorm Room/Cabin Time
12:00am Lights Out
Saturday, June 20
7:00-8:30am Breakfast
9:00 Retreat Session II
11:30 Mass with Monks
12:00pm Lunch
1:00 Retreat Session III
3:30 Departure
This year's retreat will be led by Brian Vander Heiden. Brian was a YTM counselor from 2012-2014. He graduated from the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University in 2014 where he majored in Theology and minored in Hispanic Studies and Philosophy. Brian is currently serving with the Benedictine Volunteer Corps in Bogota, Colombia. He lives in the Benedictine monastery Tibati and works for one of the monastery's high schools as an English and Religion teacher.
The cost is $50 for both days, or $15 for Friday's volleyball tournament/picnic only.
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The Green Mountain Council's premiere specialty camp, Frontiers Camp, would like to announce the retirement of its founder and Camp Director, Hal Grosser, known by most as "Skunk Tail." The Frontiers Camp Staff Crew is, and has been, in the process of reviewing and revising the camp programs as part of the Frontiers Camp policy of continuous improvement each year.
This is the camp your Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather would have wanted to attend. It's not a sit back and just "hang-out" camp. This camp is all about traditional American frontier skills and adventure, lots of action, and great food presented by a high qualified volunteer staff.
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Frontiers Camp is a unique resident specialty summer camp program offered for eight days and seven nights (Saturday through Saturday) and presented once each summer for BSA registered Boy Scouts and Venture Crew members at the Mount Norris Scout Reservation located in Eden Mills Vermont.
The camp theme is centered around the activities of a 1830s-style mountain man American frontier rendezvous. The goal of Frontiers Camp is to develop self-reliance, team-work, and moral and ethical judgment in a hardy eight-day, seven-night BSA resident camp using Scouting and other approved programs (such as State Hunter Education and NRA) using a proven, experienced, and all-volunteer staff of over 60 (85% adults). Our goals are: fun, leadership development, advancement and merit badges. All staff members are hand selected from previous Frontiers Camps and are volunteers who are well trained and very capable. All merit badge and rank instruction is provided by the adult staff.
The complete program is four years long – so there are plenty of mountain man and rendezvous as well as Scouting experiences for the youngest to the oldest at Frontiers Camp. (As boys get older, they need and get different levels of program challenge. The program is fun and satisfying for all ages.) 2014 will be Frontiers Camp's 14th anniversary year!
Frontiers Camp has received a Certificate of Accreditation noting that Frontiers Camp had successfully met or exceeded the requirements of the National Standards for Resident Camps and was approved as a Nationally Accredited Resident Camp on June 25, 2013.
Frontiers Camp embraces these five principles in guiding the staff crew: "be supportive, be better, be pioneering, be accountable and be enthusiastic". These are what makes Frontiers Camp an exceptional camp experience.
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