Landwehr (2001) defines how the etymological roots of the term “secure” are found in “se” which means “without,” or “apart from,” and “cure,” i.e. “to care for,” or “to be concerned about”. While there are many definitions of the primary requirements of security, the classical requirements are summarized by the acronym CIA. CIA is the acronym for confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Al...

We propose the hypothesis that word etymology is useful for NLP applications as a bridge between languages. We support this hypothesis with experiments in crosslanguage (English-Italian) document categorization. In a straightforward bag-ofwords experimental set-up we add etymological ancestors of the words in the documents, and investigate the performance of a model built on English data, on It...

The first cancer descriptions in history are discussed according to recent findings and their interpretation, which show it as a group of unknown diseases until the 18th century, when it started to increase to actual levels. Medical literature shows a variety of what were considered cancer lesions, which are actually different lesions. This is partly due to an etymological misunderstanding of t...

This paper presents a novel method for aligning etymological data, which models context-sensitive rules governing sound change, and utilizes phonetic features of the sounds. The goal is, for a given corpus of cognate sets, to find the best alignment at the sound level. We introduce an imputation procedure to compare the goodness of the resulting models, as well as the goodness of the data sets....

Introduction. Currently, researchers have no consensus on the classification of Kipchak languages. The dictionaries compiled by P. S. Pallas provide valuable insights into 18th-century Tatar, Bashkir, Nogai, and Kazakh Goals. This article attempts an analysis latter’s graphic features in order to enhance our understanding development dialect-classifying graphophonic isoglosses. Materials method...