Defining Life in African Igbo Cosmology

On Defining African Philosophy: History, Challenges, and Perspectives

Cosmology and Life

The progress in cosmology in the past few decades leads also to new insights into the global question of the emergence of intelligent life in the universe. Here I am not referring to discoveries that are related to very localized regions, such as the detection of extrasolar planetary systems, but rather to properties of the universe at large. In order to set the stage properly for the topics to...

Use of Transformation-Based Learning in Annotation Pipeline of Igbo, an African Language

The accuracy of an annotated corpus can be increased through evaluation and revision of the annotation scheme, and through adjudication of the disagreements found. In this paper, we describe a novel process that has been applied to improve a part-of-speech (POS) tagged corpus for the African language Igbo. An inter-annotation agreement (IAA) exercise was undertaken to iteratively revise the tag...

on defining african philosophy: history, challenges, and perspectives

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securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...