 is the one who taught me to crochet, so I may make her something crochet-y.
D, my oldest, just finished his junior year in high school. He is right now in Baltimore, getting some sleep I hope. Tomorrow, he undergoes physical testing for the Marine's delayed-entry program. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, he will be sworn in tomorrow afternoon. It's what he wants to do and I am proud, sad, and terrified - all at the same time. He will spend his senior year getting ready for boot camp.
The mother-in-law is going to move in, so R has been working on the basement, getting it ready for her. She will probably move in in mid-July.
J is looking forward to scout camp this summer and possibly church camp.
The brownies in the oven smell good.
It's getting late and I should be in bed.
I can't believe Sushi is graduating! It seems like just yesterday she was a little thing. Where has the time gone!?
If you are inclined to pray, please pray for my friend's daughter, Lydia. She is four years old and had her thumb ripped off by a compressor. They were not able to reattach the thumb, and are hoping to save the joint. She told her mommy, "I'm sorry, mommy, I don't think I can do this..." :(
Have a great day, everyone!
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Welcome back Missy! I hope you enjoyed your vacation in the Black Hole. So glad school is over for you. When do you start back?
I hope you enjoy your trip in Kansas with your family. Have you seen the skybus prices? If you book early, you can get terrific prices ($10!) They even have a plane going to Richmond.
Oh poor Lydia. What's a compressor?
Prayers for precious Lydia. I am deeply sorry for this incredible loss.
Prayers for you, too. For your oldest and for you with your MIL moving in. None of this is easy to deal with, by any means... I pray for strength and acceptance and peace.Unsupervised partial parsing (UPP) is a simple but effective approach to unsupervised constituency parsing from raw text. The idea is to focus on partial parsing, or chunking raw text into non-overlapping multiword constituents. This means, our models start by finding low- level constituents, such as noun phrases, and build up constituent tree structures from there.
As an unsupervised chunker, this system is pretty good: when evaluated on base noun phrase extraction, using the Penn Treebank WSJ annotations as a gold standard, it achieves over 75% for both precision and recall.
As an unsupervised parser, this system is at or near the state-of-the art for short sentences, and competitive with systems that require part-of-speech annotations (a common assumption in unsupervised parsing research), rather than raw text. For all length sentences, upparse is the current best model for unsupervised parsing that we know of.
Elias Ponvert, Jason Baldridge and Katrin Erk (2011), “Simple Unsupervised Grammar Induction from Raw Text with Cascaded Finite State Models” in Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2011.
The software – upparse – is available for download and use under an Apache license. The version of upparse used for this paper is included below. It’s in Java and Python. For latest updates, and to contribute, check out the source on Github at eponvert/upparse.
The song goes: You down with UPP? Please give us around 45 days to respond to any grant applications. This give us time to discuss with the Board, ask questions, and speak to the applicant.
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These days I sometimes wonder why Filmation didn't get actor Bob Hastings to recreate his ARCHIE radio role for their cartoons. It can't be because he was too old. Just a couple years earlier he was the voice of SUPERBOY for them and he was younger than the guy they eventually DID get to do that squeaky voice. Most people who care about such things are fairly familiar today with the fact that Ron Dante was the singing voice of ARCHIE on the records and in the old Filmation cartoons that began in the late sixties. Since his is the only name ever mentioned, I've heard of some who still think that he also did Archie's speaking voice! But no. I remember the first time I figured out that Archie's voice was, in fact, done by the old Gab