Abstract: Direct collocation (DC) is a widely used method for solving dynamic optimization problems (DOPs), but its implementation simplicity and computational efficiency are limited for challenging ...

Abstract: The paper proposes a tagging method based on verb-verb collocation examples, and sets up an example-database on selected 100 000 word corpus, it develops a tagging system of verb-verb ...

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