The development of an online corporate training program is a challenge from many standpoints. When the training program involves specialized content and the need for the trainees to meet an international professional standard, the challenges multiply. This case study discusses the development of an online program for international aviation personnel who must meet a newly mandated English langua...

We present a study that compares data-driven dependency parsers obtained by means of annotation projection between language pairs of varying structural similarity. We show how the partial dependency trees projected from English to Dutch, Italian and German can be exploited to train parsers for the target languages. We evaluate the parsers against manual gold standard annotations and find that t...

In this paper, we present a new approach to the integration of object-oriented programming languages, database programming languages and query languages. While object-oriented programming languages and languages that are supported by object database systems appear to be closely related, there are a number of significant differences that affect language design and implementation. Such issues inc...

Prevalent treatments of Obligatory Control (OC) derive the distribution of PRO from either government or case theory. However, ample crosslinguistic evidence demonstrates that PRO is case-marked just like any other DP. The phenomenon of finite control in the Balkan languages and in Hebrew, where subjunctive complements exhibit OC, demonstrates that the licensing of PRO must be sensitive to the ...

We prove that an (n+ 1)-dimensional spin static vacuum with negative cosmological constant whose null infinity has a boundary admitting a non-trivial Killing spinor field is be the AdS spacetime. As a consequence, we generalize previous uniqueness results by X. Wang [Wa2] and by Chruściel-Herzlich [CH] and introduce, for this class of spin static vacua, some Lorentzian manifolds which are prohi...

We determine completely the Borel hierarchy of the class of context free ω-languages, showing that, for each recursive non null ordinal α, there exist some Σα-complete and some Π 0 α-complete ω-languages accepted by Büchi 1-counter automata.

Several processes involve two immiscible liquid phases with dispersed drops surrounded by a continuous phase. The drops coalesce for joining their mother phase. This phenomenon occurs in many industrial mixing, separation, as well as in environmental processes. This paper is focused on the problem of the coalescence of a single drop at the planar interface of two immiscible liquids. An original...