Language resources are valuable assets, both for institutions and researchers. To safeguard these resources requirements for repository systems and data management have been specified by various branch organizations, e.g., CLARIN and the Data Seal of Approval. This paper describes these and some additional ones posed by the authors’ home institutions. And it shows how they are met by FLAT, to p...

The paper discusses the development of an IBM PC based tool, for calculating train braking distances for various train classes on a rail network. There is discussion on current industry practice and the limitations of that practice, the concept of the tool itself, including the assumptions made, the strategy adopted to minimise the risk of incorrect calculations, and the results of adopting tha...

A further commercially available encryption package for the IBM PC is analysed, and a simple breaking program is described.

negation has many complicated forms and can be represented in a variety of ways. some sentences have explicit negation items and some other sentences convey the notion of negation without having any explicit negation item. negative polarity items (npis) are expressions that need to a negative context to be grammatically correct, and their meanings are compatible with negative sentences and are ...

We propose adding safe, efficient garbage collection to C++, eliminating the possibility of storage-management bugs and making the design of complex, object-oriented systems much easier. This can be accomplished with almost no change to the language itself and only small changes to existing implementations, while retaining compatibility with existing class libraries. Our proposal is the first t...

A lexical decision experiment with Dutch-English bilinguals compared the effect of word frequency on visual word recognition in the first language with that in the second language. Bilinguals showed a considerably larger frequency effect in their second language, even though corpus frequency was matched across languages. Experiment 2 tested monolingual, native speakers of English on the English...

in this paper we formulate and prove some xed and common xed pointtheorems for self-mappings dened on complete lower transversal functionalprobabilistic spaces.

Task-Based Language Teaching has been developed in response to the teacher-dominated, focus-on-forms methods such as Present, Practice, Produce (PPP). The body of literature is replete with studies examining learning efficacy PPP approach versus TBLT; however, these did not use assessment tasks comparing two methods. To this end, present study used an Assessment Task, a Grammaticality Judgment ...

Current approaches to learning vector representations of text that are compatible between different languages usually require some amount of parallel text, aligned at word, sentence or at least document level. We hypothesize however, that different natural languages share enough semantic structure that it should be possible, in principle, to learn compatible vector representations just by analy...