Nano enters the lingo

Constraint Lingo

Levelling the lingo playing field.

W ith an ever-declining number of papers written in languages other than English, the idiom of Shakespeare is, today more than ever before, the international language of science [1,2]. In 2014, according to PubMed’s language filter, 95.4% of life science publications retrieved by the search engine were written in English, in line with the trend of the last several decades [1,2]. Today, among th...

Argument Optionality in the LinGO Grammar Matrix

We present a library of implemented HPSG analyses for argument optionality based on typological studies of this phenomenon in the world’s languages, developed in the context of a grammar customization system that pairs a crosslinguistic core grammar with extensions for non-universal phenomena on the basis of user input of typological properties. Our analyses are compatible with multiple interse...

SUMO enters the ring

By the mid-1990s, it was clear that conjugation to ubiquitin could affect not just a protein’s stability, but also its localization and activity. Whether there were other proteins in the cell that could also be covalently linked to substrates in order to regulate their function was unknown, at least until Matunis et al. (1), along with several other groups (2–6), identified the protein that wou...

The GPU Enters Computing's Mainstream