Deontic Modality in Lithuanian Translations of EU Legislation

Deontic Modality of Imperatives

Deontic modality based on preference

Deontic modalities are here defined in terms of the preference relation explored in our previous work (Osherson and Weinstein, 2012). Some consequences of the system are discussed.

collocation errors in translations of the holy quran

the present study aims at identifying, classifying and analyzing collocation errors made by translators of the holy quran into english.findings indicated that collocationally the most acceptablt translation was done by ivring but the least appropriate one made by pickthall.

The Author Perspective Model for Classifying Deontic Modality in Events

In this paper we present a generative model entitled the Author Perspective Model for the classification of deontic modality in event mentions. In the model modals, adverbials, and predicates associated with an event mention are generated by either a topic or author perspective where the author perspective is one of the three high level categories of deontic modality. We train the model with da...

EU legislation advancing ICT to green?

The importance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for society and economy has sharply increased during the last few decades. As a consequence, this sector’s energy consumption and emissions have risen, too. However, ICT-enabled energy efficiency measures are expected to contribute to a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by an astonishing 15 per cent. So Green IT is an essen...