Many people believe that language teaching is a neutral practice. However, this belief is not without its own opponents. To many scholars, teaching languages cannot be devoid of teaching cultural values of the target language, which tacitly aims at denigrating cultural values of the community of the learners who are learning it. The ultimate purpose of such cultural oppression, according to the...

Modern software development approaches, like agile software engineering, require adequate tools and languages to support the development in a clearly structured way. At best, they shall provide a steep learning curve as well as interactive development environments. In the field of computer vision, there is a major interest for both, general research and education e.g. of undergraduate students....

The ideal case of formal languages. In the formal languages framework, the class of regular languages can be characterized in various ways: finite automata, rational expressions, monadic second-order logic, extended temporal logics, finite monoids... (see e.g. [RS97]). Among all these equivalences, the logical characterization is of particular interest since many subclasses of regular languages...

Model Integration has been an active field of research. Ideally one would like to apply the same results from software engineering to construct new models from previously defined and tested ones. As in software engineering many algorithms and/or procedures written in diflerent languages are assembled together, so there are many models expressed in diflerent modeling languages which we would lik...

News is a medium of daily information usually obtained by the public. The news consists lot in it and composed sentence structures. Each language unique with its own structure, like Indonesian other foreign languages. But nowadays, many media mix languages, making structure different from Bahasa Indonesia. To classify these words, Part Of Speech Tagging needed to determine class words sentences...

We do not need to imagine children becoming sensitive to and then imitating the complex set of durational processes found in English (and other Germanic languages) in order to acquire them. English, like many other systems that must remain viable through successions of reproductive cycles, has straightforward solutions to its developmental challenges embedded within its structure. In particular...

It is cumbersome to write complex machine learning and graph algorithms in existing data-parallel models like MapReduce. Many of these algorithms are, by nature, iterative and perform incremental computations, neither of which are efficiently supported by current frameworks. We argue that array-based languages, like R [1], are ideal to express these algorithms, and we should extend these langua...

Syllable structure is systematically related to tone patterning in two dimensions: sonority and duration. The reasons for this are fundamentally phonetic: syllable weight is determined by the sonority and duration profile of the rhyme, which themselves are the phonetic correlates of tone. This paper uses the Moraic Model [1] to analyze the weight-mediated syllable-tone patterning in four distin...

Many object-oriented languages used in practice descend from Algol. With this motivation, we study the theoretical issues underlying such languages via the theory of Algollike languages. It is shown that the basic framework of this theory extends cleanly and elegantly to the concepts of objects and classes. An important idea that comes to light is that classes are abstract data types, whose the...

We study functions from reals to reals which are uniformly degree-invariant from Turing-equivalence to many-one equivalence, and compare them “on a cone.” We prove that they are in one-to-one correspondence with the Wadge degrees, which can be viewed as a refinement of the uniform Martin’s conjecture for uniformly invariant functions from Turingto Turing-equivalence. Our proof works in the gene...