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Pre-colonial institutions and socioeconomic development: The case of Latin America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We study the effects of pre-colonial institutions on present-day socioeconomic outcomes for Latin America. Our thesis is that more advanced pre-colonial institutions relate to better socioeconomic outcomes today. We advance that pre-colonial institutions
Angeles, Luis, Elizalde, Aldo
core   +1 more source

ChatGPT for Language Teaching and Learning

open access: yesRELC Journal : A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 2023
In this technology review, we explore the affordances of the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT for language teaching and learning. In addition to this, we also present debates and drawbacks of ChatGPT.
Lucas Kohnke   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

SentencePiece: A simple and language independent subword tokenizer and detokenizer for Neural Text Processing [PDF]

open access: yesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2018
This paper describes SentencePiece, a language-independent subword tokenizer and detokenizer designed for Neural-based text processing, including Neural Machine Translation. It provides open-source C++ and Python implementations for subword units.
Taku Kudo, John Richardson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessment of habitat quality and landscape connectivity for forest-dependent cracids in the Sierra Madre del Sur Mesoamerican biological corridor, Mexico [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Assessing landscape connectivity allows us to identify critical areas that impede or facilitate the movement of organisms and their genes and to plan their conservation and management.
Castillo Santiago, Miguel Ángel   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

El sistema de finito en la claúsula del bribri de Coroma según la gramática sistémico-funcional

open access: yes, 2013
This article seeks to analyze the subsystems that constitute the system of FINITENESS in Bribri in the frame of systemic-functional grammar of M.A.K. Halliday.
Sara Pacchiarotti
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Trans misogyny in the colonial archive: Re‐membering trans feminine life and death in New Spain, 1604–1821

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 91-111, March 2024.
Abstract Traces of trans feminine pasts are scattered all across the colonial archive. In New Spain, glimpses of Indigenous trans women's lives can be found in the records of conquistadors as early as the sixteenth century. While such early colonial representations of trans femininity span myriad religious, imperial and literary contexts, they are all ...
Jamey Jesperson
wiley   +1 more source

Recursive Numeral Systems Optimize the Trade‐off Between Lexicon Size and Average Morphosyntactic Complexity

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 3, March 2024.
Abstract Human languages vary in terms of which meanings they lexicalize, but this variation is constrained. It has been argued that languages are under two competing pressures: the pressure to be simple (e.g., to have a small lexicon) and to allow for informative (i.e., precise) communication, and that which meanings get lexicalized may be explained ...
Milica Denić, Jakub Szymanik
wiley   +1 more source

Text and Context of the Suwo': Bribri Oral Tradition.

open access: yes, 1996
This dissertation comprises the analysis of six extensive texts in Bribri, a Chibchan language spoken in Costa Rica, Central America. The theoretical framework is based mainly on M.A.K.
Carla Victoria Jara
semanticscholar   +1 more source

SciBERT: A Pretrained Language Model for Scientific Text [PDF]

open access: yesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2019
Obtaining large-scale annotated data for NLP tasks in the scientific domain is challenging and expensive. We release SciBERT, a pretrained language model based on BERT (Devlin et.
Iz Beltagy, Kyle Lo, Arman Cohan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Language Models as Knowledge Bases? [PDF]

open access: yesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2019
Recent progress in pretraining language models on large textual corpora led to a surge of improvements for downstream NLP tasks. Whilst learning linguistic knowledge, these models may also be storing relational knowledge present in the training data, and
F. Petroni   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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