Meadow vipers (Vipera ursinii) are small venomous snakes whose range in Hungary has been greatly fragmented by anthropogenic habitat disturbance (especially, agriculture). We obtained DNA from a total of eight Hungarian snakes. Genetic variability at the major histocompatibility (Mhc) class I loci was much lower for these snakes than for specimens from two large Ukrainian populations. Within tw...

This paper reports on the adaptation of a well-established foreign language anxiety scale for use in the Hungarian EFL setting; furthermore, the validation procedures aimed at testing the psychometric properties of the new instrument. Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope’s (1986) Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) was adapted using the method of multiple translators and back translation, and...

This paper provides a description of the automatic conversion of the morphologically annotated part of the Old Hungarian Corpus. These texts are in the format of the Humor analyzer, which does not follow any international standards. Since standardization always facilitates future research, even for researchers who do not know the Old Hungarian language, we opted for mapping the Humor formalism ...

Quality estimation for machine translation is an important task. The standard automatic evaluation methods that use reference translations cannot perform the evaluation task well enough. These methods produce low correlation with human evaluation for English-Hungarian. Quality estimation is a new approach to solve this problem. This method is a prediction task estimating the quality of translat...

The paper attempts to provide forecast methodological framework and concrete models to estimate long run probability of default term structure for Hungarian corporate debt instruments, in line with IFRS 9 requirements. Long run probability of default and expected loss can be estimated by various methods and has fifty-five years of history in literature. After studying literature and empirical m...

For over a century the text of the Phaistos Disk remained an enigma without a convincing translation. This paper presents a novel semi-automatic translation method that uses for the first time a recently discovered connection between the Phaistos Disk symbols and other ancient scripts, including the Old Hungarian alphabet. The connection between the Phaistos Disk script and the Old Hungarian al...

This paper presents a novel semi-automatic translation method for the Phaistos Disk that had no convincing translation for over a century. The method uses for a recently discovered connection between the Phaistos Disk symbols and other ancient scripts, including the Old Hungarian alphabet. The connection between the Phaistos Disk script and the Old Hungarian alphabet suggested the possibility t...

The paper presents an approach for the topology design of a Hungarian public ATM network on top of the Hungarian SDH network with STM-4 rings on the lower level, and STM-16 mesh on the higher level. The approach is being implemented in the XPLANET tool developed for the support of the network planning activities of the Hungarian Telecommunications Company Ltd. Based on the planning approach the...

Hungarian is a stereotype of morphologically rich and non-configurational languages. Here, we introduce results on dependency parsing of Hungarian that employ a 80K, multi-domain, fully manually annotated corpus, the Szeged Dependency Treebank. We show that the results achieved by state-of-the-art data-driven parsers on Hungarian and English (which is at the other end of the configurational-non...

In this paper we present a Hungarian sentiment corpus manually annotated at aspect level. Our corpus consists of Hungarian opinion texts written about different types of products. The main aim of creating the corpus was to produce an appropriate database providing possibilities for developing text mining software tools. The corpus is a unique Hungarian database: to the best of our knowledge, no...