Learning from our vulnerabilities: Insights from Octavia E. Butler’s parable of the sower and West Sumatra’s 2024 flood disasters [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThis article discusses the correlation between flood disasters in West Sumatra in March and May 2024 and the science fiction novel Parable in the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.
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Hospital disaster preparedness in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of English literature. [PDF]
BMC Emerg Med, 2023 Farah B, Pavlova M, Groot W.
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Mikhail Lomonosov. Panegyric to the Sovereign Emperor Peter the Great (1755). Panegyric to Empress Elizabeth (1749). English translations with footnotes and commentaries by V.Shiltsev [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 One of Russia most prominent Enlightenment figures, Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) was a polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to physics, chemistry, astronomy, literature and education. Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions.
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Phrase-Based & Neural Unsupervised Machine Translation [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Machine translation systems achieve near human-level performance on some languages, yet their effectiveness strongly relies on the availability of large amounts of parallel sentences, which hinders their applicability to the majority of language pairs. This work investigates how to learn to translate when having access to only large monolingual corpora
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What Meaning-Form Correlation Has to Compose With [PDF]
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics (2020) 3737-3749, 2020 Compositionality is a widely discussed property of natural languages, although its exact definition has been elusive. We focus on the proposal that compositionality can be assessed by measuring meaning-form correlation. We analyze meaning-form correlation on three sets of languages: (i) artificial toy languages tailored to be compositional, (ii) a set ...
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Edulite: Journal of English Education, Literature, and Culture, 2019 This study deals with the issue of diaspora which relates to diasporic experiences as well as the impact of diaspora. The research attempted to find out the experiences encountered by LuLing and to know the impact of diaspora perceived by her as the ...
Septiarini Makodamayanti +1 more
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Terminology focused on design and retention methods used for anterior resin-bonded fixed partial dentures in English literature: A scoping review. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Chebil M +3 more
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Since the Scientific Literature Is Multilingual, Our Models Should Be Too [PDF]
arXivEnglish has long been assumed the $\textit{lingua franca}$ of scientific research, and this notion is reflected in the natural language processing (NLP) research involving scientific document representation. In this position piece, we quantitatively show that the literature is largely multilingual and argue that current models and benchmarks should ...
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An autopsy case of ovarian mucinous cystic tumor complicated by ovarian abscess and a review of the English literature. [PDF]
Clin Case Rep, 2022 Suzuki D +9 more
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Towards Better Inclusivity: A Diverse Tweet Corpus of English Varieties [PDF]
arXivThe prevalence of social media presents a growing opportunity to collect and analyse examples of English varieties. Whilst usage of these varieties was - and, in many cases, still is - used only in spoken contexts or hard-to-access private messages, social media sites like Twitter provide a platform for users to communicate informally in a scrapeable ...
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