PPT-1 Topic 7 (Ch. 14)

Bond Prices and Yields Bond characteristics Bond pricing Bond yields Bond prices over time Default risk 2  Bond Characteristics Typically a bond is a security in which the issuer borrower promises to repay to the lender investor the principal at maturity date plus periodic coupon interest over some specified period of time. TOPIC SENTENCE. A . topic sentence tells the reader what the paragraph is all about.. TOPIC AND MAIN POINT. Every good topic sentence has two parts:. 1. Topic . 2. Main . Point. TOPIC. A topic is WHO the paragraph or story is about.. Authors: Rosen-. Zvi. , Griffiths, . Steyvers. , Smyth . Venue: the 20th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. Year: 2004. Presenter: Peter Wu. Date: Apr 7, 2015. Title: The Author-Topic Model for Authors and Documents. UWC Writing Workshop. Spring 2014. Thesis Statements. What do you already know about thesis statements?. Introduction to Thesis Statements . A thesis statement:. Tells the reader how you will interpret the significance of the subject matter under discussion.. Language Model Adaptation. Ekapol. . Chuangsuwanich. 1. , . Shinji . Watanabe. 2. ,. Takaaki. Hori. 2. , . Tomoharu. . Iwata. 2. , . James . Glass. 1. 報告者：郝柏翰. 2013/03/05. ICASSP 2012. Mini-Lesson. What is the . thesis statement. ?. What is the formula?. Thesis Statement Examples. Topic 1: Bradbury uses imagery to reveal a society that uses government censorship as a way to control its people, and warns that this could be any society’s fate if people refuse to speak up.. Chenghua. Lin . & . Yulan. He. CIKM09. Main Idea. This . paper . proposes . a novel probabilistic modeling framework based on . Latent . Dirichlet. Allocation (LDA), called joint sentiment/. 1. . Series Title: “LEARNING TO RECOGNISE AND REMOVE BARRIERS TO HEALING”. . TOPIC No. 2. . “THE BARRIERS . COMING FROM . WRONG ATTITUDES . TO OTHER PEOPLE”. Topic 2. Canon Jim Holbeck. 2. Source: “Topic models”, David . Blei. , MLSS ‘09. Topic modeling - Motivation. Discover topics from a corpus . Model connections between topics . Model the evolution of topics over time . Image annotation. Jie Tang. *. , Limin Yao. #. , and Dewei Chen. *. *. Dept. of Computer Science and Technology. Tsinghua University. #. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst. April, 2009. ?. What are the major topics in the returned docs?. ChengXiang. . Zhai. Department of Computer Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/czhai. 1. Search is a means to the end of finishing a task . Decision Making. Padhraic Smyth. Department of Computer Science. University of California, Irvine . . Progress Report. New deadline. In class, Thursday February 18. th. (not Tuesday). Outline. 3 to 5 pages maximum. Information Ordering. Ling 573. Systems and Applications. May 5, 2016. Roadmap . Entity-based cohesion model:. Model entity . based transitions. Topic-based cohesion model:. Models sequence of topic transitions. Paul N. Bennett, Microsoft Research. Joint with. Ece Kamar, Microsoft Research. Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Motivation for Consensus Task. Recover actual . relevance of . a topic-document . Illustrations, descriptions or procedures. (with prompting). K. Compare & Contrast. The most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. 2. nd. . Integrate. Information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgably.