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An assessment of the robustness of the 2008EPI results requires the evaluation of uncertainties underlying the index and the sensitivity of the country scores and rankings to the methodological choices made during the development of the Index. To test...

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Composite indicators are increasingly used for bench-marking countries performances. Yet doubts are often raised about the robustness of the resulting countries rankings and about the significance...

Large, uniformly encoded collections of texts, corpora, are an invaluable source of data, not only for linguists, but also for Language Technology tools. Especially useful are...

With the emergence of the World Wide Web, Web sites have become a key communication channel for organizations. In this context, analyzing and improvingWeb communication is essential to better satisfy the objectives...

We present an exploratory tool that extracts person names from multilingual news collections, matches name variants referring to the same person, and infers relationships between people...

The surface concentration data collected during the European Tracer Experiment (ETEX) are analysed for the first time by means of geostatistical techniques. The aim of the analysis is to determine the self-consistency...

In this paper we propose and test a generalisation of the method originally proposed by Sobol’, and recently extended by Saltelli, to estimate the first order and total effect sensitivity indices. Exploiting...

Due to the ever increasing amount of attention paid to the 'naturalness' of ingredients in food and beverages by both consumers and controlling authorities, the search for suitable methods for the characterization of origin is of primary...

We are presenting a set of multilingual text analysis tools that can help analysts in any field to explore large document collections quickly in order to determine...