Lithuanian metaphorical legal terms

Classification of Short Legal Lithuanian Texts

Statistical analysis of parliamentary roll call votes is an important topic in political science because it reveals ideological positions of members of parliament (MP) and factions. However, it depends on the issues debated and voted upon. Therefore, analysis of carefully selected sets of roll call votes provides a deeper knowledge about MPs. However, in order to classify roll call votes accord...

Automatic Inference of Base Forms for Multiword Terms in Lithuanian

This paper reports on a specific problem of automatic terminology extraction in Lithuanian – base form inference. While the process of lemmatisation is properly carried out by existing tools, problems arise with normalizing multiword terms. It can be described as the discrepancy between the base form (i. e. lemma) of a term and the sequence of the base forms of constituent lexical items within ...

Lithuanian-Latvian-Lithuanian Parallel Corpus

The goal of the paper is to present different problems related to the building of Parallel Corpus for two small languages, namely, Latvian and Lithuanian. The Lithuanian-Latvian-Lithuania Parallel Corpus (LILA) will contain 8 million running words; will be bidirectional, aligned on the sentence level. The problems include identifying, acquiring, preparing, and aligning parallel texts.

Metaphorical imagination: the moral and legal status of fetuses and embryos.

Metaphorical Futures

This paper argues that temporal concepts that appear to involve a relation between an individual and a future event are not, as has often been claimed, directly structured in terms of locations in space and/or motion through space. Instead, the positioning of reified events in space is used to describe the degree of epistemic detachment holding between the individual and the event. This brings ...