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Slang is a predominant form of informal language making flexible and extended use of words that is notoriously hard for natural language processing systems to interpret. Existing approaches to slang interpretation tend to rely on context…
A brief report on recent work on the sphere-packing problem.
Today, one's disposes of large datasets composed of thousands of geographic objects. However, for many processes, which require the appraisal of an expert or much computational time, only a small part of these objects can be taken into…
On the basis of field observations and of a tentative classification of the different types of snow, a modeling of the different possible types of full-depth avalanches is proposed. A new approach for flow and arrest processes is suggested,…
We survey the field of nonparametric inference under shape constraints, providing a historical overview and a perspective on its current state. An outlook and some open problems offer thoughts on future directions.
In the last fifteen the subset sampling method has often been used in reliability problems as a tool for calculating small probabilities. This method is extrapolating from an initial Monte Carlo estimate for the probability content of a…
Studying real-world networks such as social networks or web networks is a challenge. These networks often combine a complex, highly connected structure together with a large size. We propose a new approach for large scale networks that is…
Network sampling is a crucial technique for analyzing large or partially observable networks. However, the effectiveness of different sampling methods can vary significantly depending on the context. In this study, we empirically compare…
A review of the empirical literature on access to scholarly information. This review focuses on surveys of authors, article download and citation analysis.
We review a collection of models of random simplicial complexes together with some of the most exciting phenomena related to them. We do not attempt to cover all existing models, but try to focus on those for which many important results…
Using an intermediate complexity climate model (Planet Simulator), we investigate the so-called Snowball Earth transition. For certain values of the solar constant, the climate system allows two different stable states: one of them is the…
Researchers and students face an explosion of newly published papers which may be relevant to their work. This led to a trend of sharing human summaries of scientific papers. We analyze the summaries shared in one of these platforms…
From social networks to P2P systems, network sampling arises in many settings. We present a detailed study on the nature of biases in network sampling strategies to shed light on how best to sample from networks. We investigate connections…
A brief history, the current state, and future directions of spin mechanics are presented.
We provide an introduction to mathematical theory of scattering resonances and survey some recent results.
The paper investigates random fields in the ball. It studies three types of such fields: restrictions of scalar random fields in the ball to the sphere, spin, and vector random fields. The review of the existing results and new spectral…
A survey of dictionary models and formats is presented as well as a presentation of corresponding recent standardisation activities.
I present a brief update on the transverse polarization distributions, focusing on model calculations and phenomenological perspectives.
This chapter is dedicated to recent developments in the field of wavelet analysis for scattered data. We introduce the concept of samplets, which are signed measures of wavelet type and may be defined on sets of arbitrarily distributed data…
Random walks as well as diffusions in random media are considered. Methods are developed that allow one to establish large deviation results for both the `quenched' and the `averaged' case.