No word on the terms of the deal, but a worthwhile exit price would be high considering the $22.7 million already invested in the firm.
The chairman of the charter commission, Matthew Goldstein, the chancellor of the City University of New York, said on Tuesday that the wording of the term-limits resolution could come up for reconsideration.
Indeed, the ambiguous wording of the terms for the review seems designed to ensure that nothing actually changes before 2013.
(The criterion I used for this search was to look for instances in which the pollster's name appeared within 25 words of the term "tracking" and also either of the terms "poll" or "survey").
According to a count of Lexis-Nexis citations in press accounts from Jan . 4through Jan . 18 there were 1,739 instances in which Mr. Romney's name was used within five words of the term "Iowa" as well as one of the following five terms: "win," "wins," "won," "winner" or "victor".
For the phone-based STD systems presented, which are based on a sequence of phones, the term is simply treated as a sequence of phones (i.e., the number of words of the term does not play an important role).
The confidence score for each detection is the sum of the scores given by the HTK tool to all the words of the term that are correctly recognized, divided by the number of words that are correctly recognized.
This may have been done based on homonymy (common words) of the term names (also called 'class label' in OWL), or propagation through the ontology.
