In this paper, we report on our efforts to identify important Greek web sites on the web by analyzing the link structure of Greek web sites. Towards this end, five independent graph-theoretic methods have been deployed: hub and authority, page rank, Bow-Tie structure, core analysis and degree distribution. Our findings indicate that government, non-profit and educational sites are amongst the m...

Smokers of all ages can benefit by quitting, but many smokers continue to smoke. Older Greek-Australian smokers, one of the largest ethnic groups in Australia, have higher rates of smoking than other groups of older Australians. This qualitative study aimed to explore older Greek-Australians' views about socio-cultural influences on their smoking. A snowball sampling technique was used to ident...

In this paper we aim to give a description of the computational tools that have been designed and implemented to support the development and validation process of the Greek WordNet, which is currently being developed in the framework of the BalkaNet project. In particular, we focus on the description of a lemmatizer for the Greek language, which has been used as the basis for a number of tools ...

Surnames of grandparents were collected from children in the primary schools of the Albanian-Italian, Croat-Italian and Greek-Italian villages of southern Italy and Sicily. The coefficients of relationships by isonymy show almost no relationship with ethnicity. Ethnolinguistic minorities of southern Italy and Sicily are geographically subdivided into two main clusters: the first cluster compris...

What Greek can tell us about the remaking of verb endings • i could not have not written this piece, since i could not imagine not honoring the memory of Tassos Christidis, my first and best Greek friend and a giant on the contemporary Greek linguistic scene for some three decades. at the same time, though, i am deeply saddened, as i write this, knowing that it is one paper of mine on Greek tha...

In this paper, we present a morphological processor for Modern Greek. From the linguistic point of view, we tr 5, to elucidate the complexity of the inflectional system using a lexical model which follows the mecent work by Lieber, 1980, Selkirk 1982, Kiparsky 1982, and others. The implementation is based on the concept of "validation grammars" (Coumtin 1977). The morphological processing is co...

Introduction This paper develops a literature review of the flexicurity discourse as this has been developed in the European Union's debates and policies. The analysis of the European Employment Strategy and the flexicurity principles developed by the European Commission will be crucial factors for the development of this review. Furthermore, the chapter aims to review the literature concerning...

This paper explores the relative contributions made by orthography, syllabic segment, and lexical tone in the word recognition and retrieval process. It also challenges recent assumptions regarding the role of orthography and tones in mental lexicon architecture. Using an implicit priming paradigm, a word recognition experiment was conducted with native speakers of two tonal languages, Chinese ...