We briefly introduce the 4 th international workshop on location-based social networks (LBSN 2012), describing its objective, importance, and results.

This paper will discuss issues relevant to corpus development and publication at the LDC and will illustrate those issues by examining the history of three LDC corpora. This paper will also briefly examine alternative corpus creation and distribution methods and their challenges. The intent of this paper is to increase the available linguistic resources by describing the regulatory and technica...

This paper examines the concept of symbiosis in Islamic history as developed by Schlomo Dov Goitein, 20th-century Jewish German scholar area and Arabic studies, discusses its application to identity sourcing Prophet Muhammad particular. The aim study is review historical outline briefly on background formation “symbiosis” preceding aftermath Goitein’s conceptualization context, following a qual...

China is a strategic neighbour of Kazakhstan. Studying also crucial for Kazakhstan's scholarship. Sinology, subdiscipline Oriental Studies that comprehensively works on China, relatively new field in Sharing common border with and having different forms relations throughout history, Kazakhstan has only recently created its own school Sinology. The reason was that, under the Soviet system, had n...

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Typological discourse analysis is the study of those factors that affect the choice of constructions in a language, taking the surrounding discourse context into account. Typically, texts from a large number of languages are analyzed quantitatively in order to discover statistical regularities between functional parameters affecting the choice of alternations. Examples of alternations are activ...