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The Jocs Florals in Contemporary Catalan Literature [PDF]
In 1859, the very same stimulus that drove the ambition to create Barcelona’s Eixample (“enlargement”) design by urban planner Cerdà served to “restore” the Jocs Florals in Barcelona, a symbolic complement which quite
Josep M. Domingo
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'I don't come from the past, I come from now': AIDS and temporality in three Catalan texts [PDF]
This article analyses literary representations of HIV/AIDS in Catalan against the background of current debates in Queer Theory about sexuality and temporality, taking into account the invisibility of the disease within Catalan culture, which is ...
Fernàndez Montolí, Josep Anton
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Asymptotics of a ${}_3F_2$ polynomial associated with the Catalan-Larcombe-French sequence [PDF]
The large $n$ behaviour of the hypergeometric polynomial $$\FFF{-n}{\sfrac12}{\sfrac12}{\sfrac12-n}{\sfrac12-n}{-1}$$ is considered by using integral representations of this polynomial.
Temme, Nico M.
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Bilingual newsgroups in Catalonia: a challenge for machine translation [PDF]
This paper presents a linguistic analysis of a corpus of messages written in Catalan and Spanish, which come from several informal newsgroups on the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia; henceforth, UOC) Virtual Campus.
Climent Roca, Salvador+6 more
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Education, language and identity [PDF]
The process of individual identity formation is still an enigma, as is the capacity of public bodies to intervene in it. In 1983, the Catalan education system became bilingual, and Catalan, along with Spanish, was taught in schools.
Abadie+60 more
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Determinants of (generalised) Catalan numbers [PDF]
We show that recent determinant evaluations involving Catalan numbers and generalisations thereof have most convenient explanations by combining the Lindstr\"om-Gessel-Viennot theorem on non-intersecting lattice paths with a simple determinant lemma from
Krattenthaler, Christian
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Sweep maps: A continuous family of sorting algorithms
We define a family of maps on lattice paths, called sweep maps, that assign levels to each step in the path and sort steps according to their level. Surprisingly, although sweep maps act by sorting, they appear to be bijective in general.
Armstrong, Drew+2 more
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What Level of Quality can Neural Machine Translation Attain on Literary Text? [PDF]
Given the rise of a new approach to MT, Neural MT (NMT), and its promising performance on different text types, we assess the translation quality it can attain on what is perceived to be the greatest challenge for MT: literary text.
Toral, Antonio, Way, Andy
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The translation of food-related culture-specific items in the COVALT corpus: A study of techniques and factors [PDF]
This article aims to analyse the translation of food-related culturespecific items (CSI) in the English–Catalan subcorpus of the Valencian Corpus of Translated Literature (COVALT). This general aim can be broken down into two specific aims: to find out
Marco, Josep
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La literatura catalana entre el barroc i el romanticisme [PDF]
The author considers methodological dificulties of many kinds that the study of Catalan literature presents between Baroque and Romanticism; reviews postulates and conclusions of Catalan literary historiography and defines the extent of general reference
Rossich, Albert
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