Creating the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC): Challenges and Perspectives

Obstacles To Literary Translation: Challenges and

Towards Creating a Test Collection for European Patents

In this poster, we discuss issues regarding the creation of a test collection for European patents for the task of Prior Art Search. Our approach is based on inferring relevance assessments from references extracted from patent documents. This should enable the creation of high quality, realistic judgements in a cost effective manner. Our future work will be directed towards refining and implem...

The Title of a Literary Text as a Discursive Phenomenon

Modern text linguistics pays serious attention to the significant structural elements of the text, which carry special knowledge. Such structural elements include the title. In this article, the title is considered as a linguistic and cognitive characteristic and a spatially fixed structural element of the text – «frame», which is located around/before/behind the text, focusing on the importanc...

Analyzing the European Union citizenship through feminist perspectives

The European Union has aspired to create an “ever closer union” among its people since the articulation of the European Union citizenship has been an important instrument towards it. However, attempts at creating this “ever closer union” have focused on homogenizing European citizens as a single entity without taking into account the heterogeneous differentials among such citizens. Gender diffe...

Challenges and Prospects of European Railways

In the present paper, challenges and prospects of the European railways, along with a proposal for a new strategy policy and specific measures are presented. The declining course of European railways concerning traffic and revenues is first analyzed. Conditions to introduce intra - modal competition are surveyed, among them separation of infrastructure fro...