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Tree Languages Defined in First-Order Logic with One Quantifier Alternation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We study tree languages that can be defined in \Delta_2 . These are tree languages definable by a first-order formula whose quantifier prefix is forall exists, and simultaneously by a first-order formula whose quantifier prefix is .
Bojanczyk, Mikolaj, Segoufin, Luc
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The Use of Examples in Polyfunctional Dictionaries

open access: yesLexikos, 2011
<p>Abstract: Dictionary compilation for the African languages in South Africa stands on the eve of the African Renaissance and prospective compilers of dictionaries for African languages are in need of a sound perspective and guidelines in respect ...
D. J. Prinsloo, R.H. Gouws
doaj   +1 more source

Building semantic maps for closely related languages: Words for ‘grain’ and their kin in South Mande

open access: yesZeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2022
This study is an exercise in micro-scale comparison based on the semantic map approach. A semantic map is constructed for meanings associated with the word for ‘grain’ in four closely related South Mande languages: Dan Blowo, Tura, Mwan, and Wan ...
Nikitina Tatiana
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Dynamics of interacting populations language contact in the Lwoo languages of Bahr el-Ghazal

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 2003
Number inflection systems in Western Nilotic languages appear highly complex and diverse. Comparative work on Nilotic and other Nilo-Saharan families has shown that these languages have a morphologically tripartite system with marked plurals and a bare ...
Anne Storch
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Achieving Secure and Efficient Cloud Search Services: Cross-Lingual Multi-Keyword Rank Search over Encrypted Cloud Data

open access: yes, 2019
Multi-user multi-keyword ranked search scheme in arbitrary language is a novel multi-keyword rank searchable encryption (MRSE) framework based on Paillier Cryptosystem with Threshold Decryption (PCTD).
Abedin, Zain Ul   +5 more
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LANGUAGE AS A TOOL OF INFLUENCE: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF DAENERYS TARGARYEN’S SPEECHES IN DOTHRAKI AND HIGH VALYRIAN IN GAME OF THRONES

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia
Language as a Tool of Influence: Discourse Analysis of Daenerys Targaryen’s Speeches in Dothraki and High Valyrian in Game of Thrones. This article delves into the examination of the multilingual discourse and diplomatic strategies employed by Daenerys ...
Bettina ENE
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Introducing new constructs for data modelling and column generation in LP modelling languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Through popular implementation of structured query language (SQL) and query-by-example(QBE) relational databases have become the de-facto industry standard for data modelling.We consider the indices, sets, and the declarative form of Linear Programming ...
Kristjansson, B   +3 more
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Multilingual Text Analysis for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

open access: yes, 1996
We present a model of text analysis for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis based on (weighted) finite-state transducers, which serves as the text-analysis module of the multilingual Bell Labs TTS system.
Sproat, Richard
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Programs as Polypeptides [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We describe a visual programming language for defining behaviors manifested by reified actors in a 2D virtual world that can be compiled into programs comprised of sequences of combinators that are themselves reified as actors.
Williams, Lance R.
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TEACHERS� BEHALF ON LANGUAGE TEST CONSTRUCTION

open access: yesLLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, 2017
There are four steps necessarily to be conducted when designing multiple-choice test items, namely setting the objective, building both concise stems and options, determining one correct answer, employing item indices to accept or discarding items (Brown, 2004). As a matter of fact, most teachers in Aceh are not very well-informed about the fourth step
Nyak Mutia Ismail, Marisa Yoestara
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