Marginalized and Misunderstood: How Anti-Rohingya Language Policies Fuel Genocide

Fuel Price Policies

Rohingya Health

There are only one Specialist Hospital, two Township Hospitals, two Urban Health Centres and four Station Hospitals for our people in the Arakan state. Rural Health Centre and subcentre of health are located in each village without any facilities or supports and thus they can’t provide any health service. There are only 12 Rohingya doctors, 3 Rohingya dental surgeons for five decades. You can i...

AfriWeb: A Web Search Engine for a Marginalized Language

isiZulu is a Bantu language spoken by approximately 9 million people, but with very few written documents available on the Internet. The lack of electronic documents and supporting infrastructure to store and retrieve documents in isiZulu is an additional threat for its survival as a written language. This paper documents an investigation into the creation of one such infrastructural element a ...

Controlled natural language policies∗

Policy languages allow users to define in a flexible way under which conditions their data can be shared and with whom. Nonetheless policy languages are not widely used yet: one reason for this is that they are too complex to be easily exploited by common users in a profitable way. This paper describes an approach that uses (controlled) natural language in order to express policies, therefore a...

Misunderstood MTBE.

Your recent article panning methyl-tert-butyl ether use (EHP 102:913) was extremely misleading and focused on unpublished, and therefore not critically reviewed data, which is inconsistent with standards of scientific journals. Given the confusion caused by the article, you should provide more accurate information to your readers on why methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE) is in gasoline and how it i...