Counting conjugacy classes of subgroups in a finitely generated group [PDF]
A new general formula for the number of conjugacy classes of subgroups of given index in a finitely generated group is obtained.
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Medicine beyond magic bullets: a formal case for multilevel interventions [PDF]
Western medicine's paradigmatic search for 'magic bullet' interventions is facing increasing difficulty: Between 1950 and 2010 the inflation-adjusted cost per USFDA-approved drug has increased exponentially in time, a draconian inverse of ...
Rodrick Wallace
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Grammatical Error Correction and Style Transfer via Zero-shot Monolingual Translation [PDF]
Both grammatical error correction and text style transfer can be viewed as monolingual sequence-to-sequence transformation tasks, but the scarcity of directly annotated data for either task makes them unfeasible for most languages. We present an approach that does both tasks within the same trained model, and only uses regular language parallel data ...
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Principles of semantic and functional efficiency in grammatical patterning [PDF]
Grammatical features such as number and gender serve two central functions in human languages. While they encode salient semantic attributes like numerosity and animacy, they also offload sentence processing cost by predictably linking words together via grammatical agreement. Grammars exhibit consistent organizational patterns across diverse languages,
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VAIYAKARANA : A Benchmark for Automatic Grammar Correction in Bangla [PDF]
Bangla (Bengali) is the fifth most spoken language globally and, yet, the problem of automatic grammar correction in Bangla is still in its nascent stage. This is mostly due to the need for a large corpus of grammatically incorrect sentences, with their corresponding correct counterparts.
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The acquisition of tense-aspect morphology and the regular-irregular debate [PDF]
This paper reviews research on English past-tense acquisition to test the validity of the single mechanism model and the dual mechanism model, focusing on regular-irregular dissociation and semantic bias.
Shirai, Yasuhiro
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Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman : can an individual-identifying standard be developed? ; how do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact? [PDF]
Two problems cloud our understanding of subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman. One is the lack of consistent and clear standards and principles for subgrouping.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Biologically inspired distributed machine cognition: a new formal approach to hyperparallel computation [PDF]
The irresistable march toward multiple-core chip technology presents currently intractable pdrogramming challenges. High level mental processes in many animals, and their analogs for social structures, appear similarly massively parallel, and recent ...
Wallace, Rodrick
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Beyond definition: Organising semantic information in bilingual dictionaries [PDF]
This paper considers the process of organising semantic information in bilingual dictionaries with diachronic coverage, from selecting the textual source-material to designing the entries.
Fraser, BL
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We generalize a recent mathematical analysis of Bernard Baars' model of human consciousness to explore analogous, but far more complicated, phenomena of institutional cognition. Individual consciousness is limited to a single, tunable, giant component of
Wallace, Deborah, Wallace, Rodrick
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