China International Piano Competition to be Held in Xiamen

The 6th China International Piano Competition (CIPC), organized by the Ministry of Culture of China (MOC) and presented by Xiamen People’s Municipal Government, will be held in Xiamen from November 16 to 26, 2013. CIPC, a triennial event, is one of     

A survey on the light-fastness properties of organic-based Alaska Native artifacts

A series of light-fastness tests were conducted on a group of ethnographic objects that will be on exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution Arctic Studies Center, a recent addition to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center in Alaska. The objects surveyed belong to the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. This work was designed as a feasibility study on the use of a micro-fading tester as a non-contact and non-destructive technique to evaluate the light-stability of materials present in ethnographic collections. A broad range of objects containing a wide variety of materials were selected for the study. The materials investigated included a variety of dyes applied on silk, cotton, and wool substrates along with some unusual materials such as tanned skin and seal gut skin. The results from this investigation have allowed establishing exhibition recommendations taking into consideration the sensitivity of each object, light levels in the museum building, and estimated light exposures based on the duration of the exhibit. The micro-fading tester has proven to be a very useful tool for determining the light-stability of ethnographic materials without causing any harm to the objects. Objects containing equivalent materials are usually classified under a general category based on their probable sensitivity to light. However, micro-fading test results have permitted the detection of dissimilarities among some of these objects, which could be associated to variations in prior fading histories, the quality of raw materials, and different preparation methods.     

立足现实,开拓创新——我国高校格局与党委领导下的校长负责制

本文通过对我国高校格局多样性的分析,论述党委领导下的校长负责制可以采取多种实现形式。认为只有因校制宜,才能促进我国高等教育事业的更大发展。     

根据“健康第一”的指导思想改革我校体育课程

学生的健身知识贫乏、能力差、健身效果欠佳 ,追其原因与体育《教学大纲》、《教材》、教学方法与考核标准和增强体质联系不紧密有关。根据“健康第一”的指导思想 ,进行我校体育课程的改革 :假设教学目标 ,从健身方向改革教学内容、上课与教学方法、考核方法等方面入手。旨在为高等院校课程改革提供一些借鉴。     

Revisiting Cross-document Structure Theory for multi-document discourse parsing

Multi-document discourse parsing aims to automatically identify the relations among textual spans from different texts on the same topic. Recently, with the growing amount of information and the emergence of new technologies that deal with many sources of information, more precise and efficient parsing techniques are required. The most relevant theory to multi-document relationship, Cross-document Structure Theory (CST), has been used for parsing purposes before, though the results had not been satisfactory. CST has received many critics because of its subjectivity, which may lead to low annotation agreement and, consequently, to poor parsing performance. In this work, we propose a refinement of the original CST, which consists in (i) formalizing the relationship definitions, (ii) pruning and combining some relations based on their meaning, and (iii) organizing the relations in a hierarchical structure. The hypothesis for this refinement is that it will lead to better agreement in the annotation and consequently to better parsing results. For this aim, it was built an annotated corpus according to this refinement and it was observed an improvement in the annotation agreement. Based on this corpus, a parser was developed using machine learning techniques and hand-crafted rules. Specifically, hierarchical techniques were used to capture the hierarchical organization of the relations according to the proposed refinement of CST. These two approaches were used to identify the relations among texts spans and to generate multi-document annotation structure. Results outperformed other CST parsers, showing the adequacy of the proposed refinement in the theory.     

摄影师眼中的雷德温

友城的友好 去年秋天,衢州市摄影师黄祖祥应邀赴衢州市友好城市美国雷德温市,进行了近一个月的艺术交流.黄祖祥在当地举办了个人作品展,与艺术家交流,给大学生上摄影课,但更多的时候是一个人骑着自行车到处拍摄.     

高若兰的中国梦

高若兰是一位漂亮的荷兰女子,她有一个漂亮的中国梦.     

奔走世界各地的姚迪雄

今年,画家姚迪雄又匆匆回到了浙江. “非常高兴,又回家了.”此次他从北京南下上海、苏州、杭州、浦江到湖州,与各地美术界朋友交流.