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Delivering quality customer service is an essential element of business strategy for companies wanting to distinguish themselves from their competitors. While closely monitored customer service can give the opportunity to build positive rapport with your customers, a bad experience can be incredibly detrimental. With 78% of consumers reporting having bailed on a transaction or not made an intended purchase because of a poor service experience, getting customer service right is critical!
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In 2376, Julian Bashir was captured by Kornak Armed Forces soldiers after his runabout, the USS Missouri, broke apart in the planet's atmosphere and crashed. He was brought to Rangdron Medical Complex, a military hospital, by Colonel Blate, where he was treated by Colonel Idit Kahayn and Major Arin. (SCE eBooks: Wounds, Book 1, Wounds, Book 2)

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New Flag Launches to Unite Vegans Across the Globe
Israeli designer Gad V. Hakimi launched the international vegan flag to solidify the global movement toward compassion.
The first-ever international vegan flag was unveiled last week. Jerusalem-born designer Gad V. Hakimi (with input from an international design team and the Vegan Flag Facebook group) created the green-and-blue flag with a white "v"—colors chosen to symbolize land, sky and sea, and light, respectively—in the center. Inspired by the rainbow flag that is now ubiqitous of the global LGBTQ movement, Hakimi created the vegan flag with the belief that "every great movement in history has a flag." Hakimi followed the five rules for creating a flag—namely, only using three colors, not replicating existing flag designs, omitting text and seals, using meaningful symbolism, and keeping the flag so simple that a child can draw it from memory. In addition to free digital downloads, other items such as physical decals, t-shirts, caps, and actual flags printed with the design are currently available online in various stores, including eBay.com. Upon finishing the flag design, Hakimi ordered a custom credit card printed with his international vegan flag flying high on the front—a feature offered by Wells Fargo and Capital One in the United States. "I have a feeling that the flag is really going to catch," Hakimi told Israeli media outlet Tivonews.
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Vale: Dave Lawler OAM
SLSNSW Life Member and long-time North Narrabeen SLSC lifesaver Dave Lawler has sadly passed away.
David 'Dooga' Lawler OAM was a life member of North Narrabeen SLSC, joining in 1944 and was heavily involved in junior activities development in the club and Branch.
He was also a keen competitor, first in R&R and later in surf swimming events, winning many Branch, NSW and Australian titles, in Open and Masters divisions.
Dave was awarded an OAM in 2001 for his significant contribution to the amateur swimming and Surf Life Saving movements. The old hands at the North Narrabeen SLSC said at the time that there was no more deserving recipient of national recognition than their mate, the man affectionately known to locals as 'Dooga'.
Dooga has been making things happen for decades.
First, there's his tireless services to amateur swimming, organising competitions as President of Narrabeen Swimming Club. He patrolled North Narrabeen Beach as a volunteer lifesaver for 25 years and in the '60s, helped establish the junior lifesaving movement, 'Nippers', at a time when many surf clubs were struggling to survive.
"I saw an opportunity there to encourage parents to get involved with the movement and set up a progression where these young kids could go through the ranks," said David.
A quiet achiever, Dooga would say that the reward for being involved in Surf Life Saving was the satisfaction of doing something for others and meeting a lot of good people along the way.
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Will 3-D printing, become a common household commodity like the computer?
Not too long ago the concept of 3D printing seemed more science fiction than fact (with images of Captain Picard commanding "Earl Gray tea, hot!" to the wall computer on the Enterprise), but now just a few short years later 3D printing is increasingly being used by businesses and government agencies, with common home use not too far down the road.
The technique managed to make headlines recently when NASA "emailed" a wrench to the International Space Station by sending the astronauts in orbit a schematic to 3D print the tool. By printing a wrench on-site, a necessary tool was created immediately, rather than having to wait for a shuttle to arrive with supplies.
Space is a long way from home though, so what's available for the average Earth-bound techie? As of this writing, the Makerbot Replicator – meant for both home and office use – will run you a cool $2,899. That's a large investment to be sure, but its also on par with the cost of home computers and flat screen televisions before their prices began to drop and become more accessible. A mini compact version for very small jobs is also available for $1,375, with other companies selling them as cheaply as $500. The printer itself isn't the only cost, however, as you've got to buy (or make your own) designs for objects, and you have to buy the filament used for the printing.
3D printers in the home have the potential to be the next truly big technological revolution on par with the home computer and the world wide web. Much like how the uses of a home computer weren't immediately apparent back in the '80s and early '90s, now they are indispensable, and it's easy to think one day kids won't know what it was like to grow up without a home printer, just as children today can't recall a time without computers and cell phones.
The big question for the home consumer is of course: what would you even make with one? The answer is: potentially anything! Christmas ornaments, wine bottle holders, screwdrivers, cookie cutters, replacement parts for home furniture, and a hundred other things people haven't even thought of yet. Some enterprising printers have even managed to make stylish sets of shoes. The latest generation of printers have greatly increased the ability for detail work, creating high quality models rather than just basic tools. The video below for instance shows a sleek gnome figurine that was 3D printed. There are also some interesting (and perhaps even frightening) possibilities – like a 3D printer printing its own replacement parts, leading to a "self-fixing" machine scenario.
Although they seem at the moment to be more for industrial or business use (college libraries are increasingly using them) features are frequently being added to printers specifically for home use, like taking snapshots during the printing process to share on Facebook or email to friends. Newer models can also sync to your phone rather than hooking up to a computer to print a design. Each successive generation of printer is also becoming much more automated and now work essentially like a standard inkjet printer without needing much special training or calibration.
As usual, the laws lag behind the technology, however, and it seems like legislation and regulation will have to be on the horizon, which could potentially impact the widespread adoption of home use. Consider for instance the phenomena of 3D printing hand guns at home (an issue that didn't exist just a few years ago) – whether or not the person printing the device has the requisite permits or has passed the background checks meant to prevent felons and the mentally ill from owning guns.
Home printed firearms are very much in a legal gray area at the moment, as they seem to break an existing law against manufacturing guns that can't be detected by metal detectors, but that issue can be circumvented simply by inserting a metal plate into the design. Its not just those with concerns about firearms who have concerns either, as obviously gun manufacturers won't be pleased with anyone around the world having the ability to cheaply, quickly create their own at home. Other industries could also be affected in a truly massive way. After all, why go out and buy a wrench or screwdriver when you could print one at home cheaply?
Regardless of the existing issues or concerns with 3D printing, the fact of the matter is that the future is now, and much like how drones are becoming commonplace and requiring government agencies to finally formulate plans and take action, 3D printing is here to stay, and it's going to be a game changer.
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Multinational operational tactical exercises of navies of the countries of the Black Sea region Blackseafor are being held now in the Black Sea. These exercises are conducted annually since 2001. On April 2 of 2001, an intergovernmental agreement was signed in Istanbul on the establishment of the Black Sea naval group Blackseafor that included Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Georgia. The agreement says that Blackseafor is a multinational naval group with flexible functions for use in emergency situations in the Black Sea. Since 2001, representatives of the Black Sea countries command joint naval exercises in turn. The right to command Blackseafor was recently handed over by Russia to Turkey for a year in Istanbul.
Previously, large exercises Black Sea Harmony under the Blackseafor flag were held in the Black Sea in April. The exercises, including more than 50 training exercises like joint exercises in tactical maneuvering, battles of surface ships, air defense, antiterrorist operations and various kinds of communication. Ships of the group had three unofficial visits to ports of the Black Sea countries (Constanza, Bourgas and Istanbul). Overall, Blackseafor sailed for more than 1,000 miles.
At the exercises in August, Russia is represented by big landing ship Azov, the Ukraine – by command ship Slavutich, Bulgaria – by corvette Smeli, Turkey – by frigate Salihrei and Romania – by corvette Macelario. All these ships are at the Seljuk naval base in Turkey now. Crews of the ships are doing basic training, conducting communication exercises, participating in various cultural events and visit ships of other countries participating in the exercises and are preparing for reassigning of ships of the group to under Blackseafor command. The main goal of the exercises with participation of up to 1,200 servicemen of various countries is working out interaction of naval units of the countries of the Black Sea region. It is planned to fulfill tasks of air defense, missile defense and antisubmarine defense of a group of ships, control of civil seafaring and civil air traffic, tactical maneuvering and the rescue of a drowning ship.
Interestingly, Active Endeavor exercises of NATO countries with similar tasks are conducted in the Mediterranean Sea simultaneously with Blackseafor exercises in the Black Sea. Meanwhile, Russia and Turkey are against spreading these exercises to the Black Sea. Moscow and Ankara have the same stance regarding the provision of security in the Black Sea. They have stated frequently on the highest level that security in the region should be provided without the interference of other countries. Blackseafor is quite sufficient for the fulfillment of this task. Vahit Erdem, Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO and Turkish parliament member from the ruling Party of Justice and Development announced recently in the course of a visit of a parliamentary delegation of Turkey to the US that the "American military presence in the Black Sea region may lead to tension." Russia and Turkey are averse to the striving of Washington to broaden the borders of NATO Active Endeavor operation from the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea. This position of Moscow and Ankara is just and logical because for the provision of security, Black Sea countries have efficient and capable mechanisms. The current exercises of Blackseafor member states in the Black Sea confirm this once again.


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I dont even get how this is supposed to work. I mean, do I write down my thought process as it happens? Why would I do that? Who would bother to read it? Why is that what i'm doing right now? Alas such mysteries are never to be answered
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I write out the Green Man story, im not sure how good it is. God knows I need an editor though, I am really bad at noticing grammatical errors. You'd think someone from England would be at least semi decent at grammar but no. It's probably because i write so damn much in my chapters that I just give up with the grammar. Sloppy? Yes, and I promise to that one guy who showed a semi interest in my stuff that I'll do better. I made a friend on the site though calls himself/herself/itself IRC nice guy/girl/demon god
On a different note I was hit by a wave of inspiration for a completely different fanon. Problem is I think its basically Neil Gaimans' "Anansi Boys" set in the Avatar universe...which sounds pretty kick ass. I'll probably give it a crack sometime later this year once im happy with Green Mans' progress. If you want to rip off that idea, feel free. It means:
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She. Is. Amazing. Easily the BEST because she has more then one character trait unlike Snow White or Aurora. Love the new show
Rapunzel is amazing! She is the best Disney female! She is strong powered
I really think rapunzel is one of the best Disney characters ever! Snow white is also the best - jaythomo2
A strong female who has glossy pink lips, volouptous tall figure, nice legs and chin, sharp green eyes, cute smileV 11 Comments
How are Ariel, Cinderella, Elsa, and Snow White beating her? They did practically nothing, while Mulan saved China!
Snow White is a kind and gentle human! Snow white is gentle and kind to everyone and has not got a bad bone in her body! Mulan and Snow White are both good females - Disneyfan2005
She had character, and was not only strong, but noble. The other older princesses were too... Delicate, and kind of just empty pretty faces. - keycha1n
Mulan is the best! She is so adorable and funny.
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While confined to the domestic role, Snow White makes the most of it, her indomitable spirit helping her to form a strong maternal bond with the seven little old men she took refuge with. She's certainly one to be admired, surviving out in the world on her own. Her kindness is a powerful thing, and while at times it's taken advantage of, it also helps her to create strong and loyal friends to support her when she was lost and alone.
Shes the first and best princess, shes really sweet, first ever princess and movie, she deserves to be first and shes the only princess to have a star on the Hollywood walk of fame! Shes a iconic female princess. snow white rules
I hate it when everybody says snow white is Weak! WRONG! Snow white has her own Personality and she is so kind and gentle! She does not want to fight with people and she is not a bratty princess like some other Disney princesses. By far snow white is the best Disney princess! _I LOVE SNOW WHITE!
Of course she's the bestV 18 Comments
This has to be the best example of character development in a movie. Also, she has cool magic and gorgeous appearance, but her personality is all she needs in order to be an amazing character.
But She Brainwashes Over 18 Billion 4 Year Old Girls Each Day With Let It Go!
There isn't even 9 billion people on earth. Let alone 18 billion 4 year olds - TheHabsFan
She is very gorgeous and standard queen all in one, I like her
No, Elsa Sucks... - VideoGamefan5V 9 Comments
I hate how there are a few haters below, who have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. Seriously, Ariel is a great girl and she had a dream just like all of you do. She wanted something more in life, something was missing. She just so happened to fall in love with a human, and so of course she would want to be human to be with Eric. She did nothing wrong, she was just trying to figure out who she was meant to be.
Ariel is sometimes having problem with the humans but now, The moral she learn is that having legs aren't special but truly kind is that you have your true love
I think Ariel was a great pick though I still don't understand she thinks that only her looks matter and that she doesn't need her voice I don't get it she is 16 common sense woaman
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In the original, the stepsisters cut off their toes to fit in the shoes. - keycha1n
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Cinderella's story is so magical!
Cinderella is my favorite Disney Princess of All Time.
Aurora is the sweetest Disney princess. - yeshalV 1 Comment
Belle is smart to runaway right? Why is Belle on this list, she is such a bad example! If a beast keeps your dad hostage in jail and belle promises to stay with the beast what the hell? She does not know what he is like! She could runaway and break her promise
I love all the Disney princesses! By far Belle is the WORST princess because she is smart to runaway from the castle? She also is just boring
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I like her because she is evil
I loved Alice as a character. She was just a curious young girl and I absolutely love the books. Very sweet character!
I really love alice! I love her blonde hair
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I'm surprised she isn't at the top of the list! She teaches everyone that despite limitations, you can stand out and make a difference (just like Vanellope did).
Vanellope is amazing! She's super relatable for people who get mistreated.
I once had a 5 hour conversation about Mabel with my friend. No lie, we love gravity falls.
Too true. Amen! I love Mabel! - keycha1n
She ain't no princess, but is just as beloved as one
Mabel= awesomeV 1 Comment
Number 1, the best character ever.
She needs a better looking boyfriend, she is way too beautiful, interesting, and amazing to be dating ugly Ron.
Sofia is so nice and compassion. She even wears an amulet close to her heart to encourage "good karma". If anything she may be too nice. If I had a daughter I would hope she would also be like Sophia. No wonder she is so popular with young girls.
I love it when sofia meets snow white in the episode 'the enchanted feast'
I really love Sofia! She is amazing
How come she is bloody in this picV 4 Comments
More exiting character than elsa
It's Sad That Anna Barley Gets Any RecognitionV 4 Comments
The person below you are wrong. Pocahontas was a hero not just in the movie, but in real life too. She settled the problems between the Indians and White man. Also, she is not boring at all. She is sweet and kind and cool, and we even learned about her in school. I do agree she is underrated, but only because she deserves more attention than she gets.
Pocahontas is so underrated and boring
The best of the best. that badass attitude and yet still she is woman of my taste! And those purple eyes!
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Computational semantic analysis of language: SemEval-2007 and beyond
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1 Introduction
SemEval-2007, the Fourth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (Agirre et al. 2007) took place on June 23–24, 2007, as a co-located event with the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL. It was the fourth semantic evaluation exercise, continuing on from the series of successful Senseval workshops.
SemEval-2007 took place over a period of about six months, including the evaluation exercise itself and the summary workshop. The exercise attracted considerable attention from the semantic processing community: 18 different evaluation tasks were organized, and more than 100 research teams and 123 systems participated in them. As a result, despite the huge effort carried out by task organizers and participant teams, time and material constraints made it virtually impossible to present thorough analyses of tasks, systems and results in the workshop proceedings. Therefore, in order to present the work and results of SemEval-2007, we assembled extended papers from the workshop as well as other contributors into this special issue of Language Resources and Evaluation, entitled "Special Issue on Computational Semantic Analysis of Language: SemEval-2007 and Beyond".
The call for papers for this special issue, published in Autumn 2007, invited submissions describing evaluation exercises involving computational semantics. Although the natural candidates were papers detailing evaluation tasks from SemEval-2007, the call was also open to anyone who could report on substantial experimental evaluation of natural language semantics. The call attracted twenty high-quality papers, from which five were selected to comprise this issue of LRE.
This introductory article provides a brief overview of the history of Senseval and SemEval (Sect. 2), as well as other important evaluation exercises on semantic analysis of language. Section 3 then summarizes the papers included in the special issue.
2 Past, present, and future of evaluation exercises on semantic analysis of language
Evaluations for applications of language technology such as information retrieval (TREC),1 information extraction (MUC)2 and text summarization (DUC)3 have been very successful in stimulating rapid scientific progress. They have brought the research community to consensus on appropriate tasks for evaluation, enabled the design of metrics for measuring comparative performance and diagnosing system strengths and weaknesses, and often led to the development of common, open, resources.
The semantic processing community quickly embraced evaluation exercises. A discussion at a workshop sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX) on "Evaluating Automatic Semantic Taggers" (Resnik and Yarowsky 1997) sparked the formation of an evaluation effort for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), which was later named "Senseval".
2.1 Past: the Senseval series
The first Senseval evaluation exercise4 was run by a small elected committee under the auspices of SIGLEX. Unlike the aforementioned evaluation exercises, Senseval was a grassroots enterprise, initiated and organized by WSD researchers themselves. The main goal of the first exercise was to establish the viability of WSD as a separate task, with its own evaluation methods and standards, and with the goal of paving the way for a better understanding of lexical semantics and polysemy.
The first Senseval exercise (Kilgarriff and Palmer 2000) took place in 1998, including tasks for English, French and Italian, in which 23 groups participated. Participants were provided with hand-annotated training and test data, as well as a predefined metric for evaluation. Senseval-1 produced a set of benchmarks for WSD system performance, and it was followed by a workshop in Herstmonceux, Sussex, UK. The exercise was a success in terms of participation and interest, and it provided convincing evidence that the task could be evaluated consistently.
Senseval-2 (Edmonds and Kilgarriff 2002) was organized in 2001, followed by an ACL workshop held soon after as well as another ACL workshop in 2002. The second Senseval's goals were to encourage the creation of tasks in new languages, increase the number of participants and systems, and broaden the range of languages for existing tasks. A new kind of task was defined, where the word senses were defined according to possible translations into other languages. Overall, datasets for 10 languages were produced, including Basque, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Swedish. Thirty-five research teams and 94 systems participated.
Senseval-3 (Mihalcea and Edmonds 2004) again broadened the scope of the exercise, as shown by the subsequent ACL workshop title: "Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text". Apart from WSD tasks for various languages (Basque, Catalan, Chinese, English, Italian, Romanian, Spanish) and the cross-lingual task, Senseval-3 included tasks for the identification of semantic roles, logic forms, and sub-categorization acquisition. The evaluation exercise attracted 55 teams, which participated with over 160 systems.
The success of the Senseval series is evident from the number of benchmark datasets it produced, as well as the achievement of agreement on a common experimental design and evaluation software and hand-tagging annotation technologies. As a result of the series, explicit WSD using a fixed sense inventory attained maturity, and WSD systems were shown to be robust according to word types, frequencies, and sense distributions. The performance of WSD systems achieved accuracies close to human performance as measured by Inter-tagger Agreement measures over the course of the Senseval series. Perhaps as a consequence of this maturity, and the fact that several systems attained comparable levels of performance, the community felt that it should move on to organize evaluation exercises for other semantic processing tasks, while at the same time trying to put WSD evaluation into real application scenarios. Although this move was already evident in Senseval-3 with the inclusion of other types of semantic processing such as semantic role labeling, it was fully accomplished in the following evaluation exercise, called SemEval.
2.2 Present: SemEval-2007 and other initiatives
Tasks organized in SemEval-2007
Evaluating WSD on Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Evaluating Word Sense Induction and Discrimination Systems
Classification of Semantic Relations between Nominals
Multilingual Chinese-English Lexical Sample
Word-Sense Disambiguation of Prepositions
Coarse-Grained English All-Words Task
Metonymy Resolution at SemEval-2007
Multilevel Semantic Annotation of Catalan and Spanish
English Lexical Substitution Task
English Lexical Sample Task via English-Chinese Parallel Text
Turkish Lexical Sample Task
Web People Search
Affective Text
TempEval Temporal Relation Identification
Evaluation of Wide Coverage Knowledge Resources
English Lexical Sample, SRL and All Words
Arabic Semantic Labeling
Frame Semantic Structure Extraction
Some of the new tasks in SemEval were related to WSD, for example, word sense induction and lexical substitution. Others dealt with semantic properties such as metonymy, semantic relations between nominals, disambiguation of prepositions, semantic role labeling, affective text, temporal relation identification, semantic interpretation using frames, evaluation of knowledge resources, and identification of person identity over web pages. SemEval also included, for the first time, an in-vivo evaluation exercise, which explicitly measured the impact of specific NLP tasks on IR and CLIR systems. This in-vivo task was later taken over by the Cross-Lingual Evaluation Forum in 2008 and 2009.6
SemEval has been the primary forum for the evaluation efforts of the semantic processing community and the largest community-based evaluation effort in the NLP field. However, several other important evaluation exercises deserve mention here.
The Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL),7 yearly organized by the ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning, has organized evaluation exercises (referred to as shared tasks) for the last 1 year. This conference was the first to organize an SRL task (Carreras and Màrquez 2004), which was continued in 2005 (Carreras and Màrquez 2005). As a new twist, in 2008 the shared task involved a combination of parsing and SRL, using a unified dependency-based representation (Surdeanu et al. 2008). The same task, extended to multiple languages, will comprise the CoNLL 2009 shared task.
ACE,8 the NIST series of information extraction technology evaluation, has run Entity Detection and Recognition (EDR) evaluations throughout the years, which is a component of the detection of complex event structures.
Another recent proposal9 at the Lexical Semantics Workshop at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information involves a number of tasks that focus on inducing lexical-semantic properties of words, such as free association, categorization and generation of salient properties of concepts.
The Recognizing Textual Entailment challenge (RTE) has been run yearly since 2004.10 This challenge proposes RTE as a generic task that captures major semantic inference needs across many natural language processing applications, such as Question Answering (QA), Information Retrieval (IR), Information Extraction (IE), and (multi-)document summarization. RTE requires participant systems to recognize, given two text fragments, whether the meaning of one text is entailed (can be inferred) from the other text. The organization of the challenge for 2008 has been taken over by NIST.11 Given the NLP modules involved, this task encompasses many of the tasks mentioned above, such us WSD, SRL, EDR, and others.
At the time of writing this introduction, two related events are upcoming. The SEW-2009 workshop,12 aims at analyzing and discussing practical and foundational aspects of semantic processing of language, as an intermediate step between the SemEval-2007 and SemEval 2010 exercises. The organization of the next edition of SemEval in 2010 is underway.13 As with the Senseval series, the semantic processing community itself proposed which tasks should be included. After the initial call and a competitive selection process, 18 tasks have been selected for SemEval-2010, a significant number of which are new to the SemEval series.
3 Articles in this special issue
Twenty high-quality papers were submitted to LRE in response to the call for papers for this special issue. After a very competitive selection process, five papers were selected for inclusion. Of the five papers accepted, four are papers that present detailed descriptions of tasks organized at SemEval-2007, while the fifth stands independent of the workshop. Each of the first four papers (Girju et al. 2009; McCarthy and Navigli 2009; Verhagen et al. 2009; Markert and Nissim 2009) detail SemEval tasks by outlining the motivation for the task, the guidelines used to create the data and resources, the participant systems from SemEval-2007, and the main contributions and lessons learned from the evaluation. The fifth paper (Chen and Palmer 2009) presents a work on robust verb sense disambiguation, which also includes a post-workshop evaluation using SemEval-2007 data.
Girju et al. (2009) present SemEval-2007 Task 4: Classification of Semantic Relations between Nominals. The task designers selected a set of seven relations between nominals, such as X causes Y, which were then used to form search engine queries. The results of the searches were hand-labeled by annotators to form the task data set. Participants were provided with the query and the search result, and were required to determine the latent relationship between a pair of labeled nominals. The authors found that the best systems out-performed the inter-annotator agreement rate on the task, and that systems did not benefit from including the query in the feature set.
McCarthy and Navigli (2009) describe SemEval-2007 Task 10: The English Lexical Substitution Task. Similar to a lexical sample task, participants were presented with single sentences, each containing a single word of interest. However, in the lexical substitution task, participants were asked to choose the most appropriate substitute for the word in the sentence rather than matching the word against a pre-defined sense inventory, thereby avoiding debate about coarse- or fine-grained sense distinctions. Since there can be no definitive "truth set" for this task, the authors spend considerable time discussing the formation of the data set and the post-hoc analysis of the participant systems' results.
Verhagen et al. (2009) present SemEval-2007 Task 15: TempEval Temporal Relation Identification. The TempEval task encompasses three temporal relation subtasks: specifying the relation between an event and a time expression within a sentence, specifying the relationship between an event and the document creation time, and providing an ordering of events in consecutive sentences. Participants were required to specify the temporal relations using a pre-defined subset of the TimeML annotation language (Pustejovsky et al. 2003). The performances of the six participating systems were somewhat similar, despite their architectural differences. In one subtask, the best systems were only slightly better than the baseline. This leads the authors to speculate on future evaluations using different subtasks and ways of combining the subtasks into a single evaluation metric.
Markert and Nissim (2009) discuss SemEval-2007 Task 8: Metonymy Resolution. The task was set up as a lexical sample task, where participants had to determine whether the target word was being used literally or figuratively. Teams could choose to specify the granularity of their solution, ranging from determining coarse-grained distinctions, where it was only necessary to specify if the target word is being used literally or figuratively, up through fine-grained distinctions, where it was necessary to specify the particular metonymic pattern exhibited by the target word. The target words were drawn from proper names for locations and organizations. The organizers found that relying only on information about grammatical roles resulted in a very competitive baseline.
Chen and Palmer (2009) describe a supervised word-sense disambiguation system for English verbs that make use of linguistic features such as syntactic alternations, named entity tags, and pronoun resolution, as well as WordNet synsets and hypernyms. These features ameliorate the sparse data problems faced by WSD algorithms that use only lexical features. The system is evaluated using data drawn from the OntoNotes project (Hovy et al. 2006) where the performance matched the inter-annotator agreement rate. In addition, the system is evaluated using data from SemEval-2007 task 17 (Pradhan et al. 2007) where results matched or exceeded the best systems.
4 Conclusions
Semantic processing is at the core of language understanding. It comprises a myriad of related tasks, which need to be tackled in order to grasp the meaning of texts. The Senseval and SemEval campaigns are grassroots efforts to provide evaluation datasets for semantic tasks, in a broad sense.
This special issue presents a significant portion of the most relevant tasks in SemEval-2007, with detailed analysis of tasks on nominal relations, metonymic relations, lexical substitution and temporal relations. Those papers outline the motivation for the task, the guidelines used to create the data and resources, the participant systems, and the main contributions and lessons learned from the evaluation. In addition, this issue presents a work on robust verb sense disambiguation, which also includes a post-workshop evaluation using SemEval-2007 data.
Text REtrieval Conference: http://trec.nist.gov
Message Understanding Conference: http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/related_projects/muc
Document Understanding Conference: http://duc.nist.gov/
See the Senseval official website for complete information on the three editions: http://www.senseval.org/
More details are available at the official SemEval website: http://nlp.cs.swarthmore.edu/semeval/
We are especially grateful to the numerous reviewers who offered their time and expertise to select the papers presented here. Also, we thank the authors of submitted papers for their interest and hard work.


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Who cannot be inspired by Italy? A country that is full of culture, creative people and fantastic food. In the autumn of 2011 we traveled for two weeks in northern Italy. This trip was all about being inspired to create. To fill ourselves with visuals that would stimulate our designs and artwork. To see beauty and then come back home to create it. Our lens kept finding itself drawn to capture the everyday Italian.
Something is lovely about black and white photography. It tells a story in a way that color doesn't. Through simplicity it explains complex ideas. Maybe there is something intangible that black and white images convey?
We feel the same way about films of the 40's-60's in Italy. Their artistry. Their storytelling. The raw way in which they were shot. When we think of Antonioni (L'Avventura), Fellini (La Strada, 8 1/2), Rosselini (Roma, Città Aperta), De Sica (Ladri di Biciclette), just some of the filmmakers that led the way in Italian cinema, we wish we could see the world through their eyes. Through their cameras.
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i think it's a great design, my concern lies in the fact that it relies on a stereotype of people of asian descent being obsessed with import cars and racing culture, take the car out and it's a strong design even if it is similiar to many past designs.
"yeah norman, there are a lot of re-used subjects...but it's going to happen, no way to get away. deal"
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