Abstract In 2006, a narrative of the Desana people included system graphic symbols reported as historical Indigenous invention used during intertribal warfare to count number enemies and pass warning information. This paper outlines evaluates system. The are described, their timeline mythical events is compared accounts region. Contemporary spoken numbers then characterized quinary with restric...

*Correspondence: Yong-Xiang Li, State Key Laboratory for Mineral Research Deposits, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210046, China e-mail: [email protected] Post-depositional compaction is an integral part of sedimentary rock formation and thus has been reasonably deemed as a major culprit for the long-recognized inclination-shallowing prob...

We investigate parsing accuracy on the Korean Treebank 2.0 with a number of different grammars. Comparisons among these grammars and to their English counterparts suggest different aspects of Korean that contribute to parsing difficulty. Our results indicate that the coarseness of the Treebank’s nonterminal set is a even greater problem than in the English Treebank. We also find that Korean’s r...