UNWRITTEN LAWS ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR

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Evaluating the impact of criminal laws on HIV risk behavior.

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, at pages 224-238 (2002). This assessment was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number U50/CCU319118-01, and Grant Number RO6/CCR118660-01 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of CDC. The authors would like to acknowledge the wo...

Long-time behavior in scalar conservation laws

We consider the long-time behavior of the entropy solution of a first-order scalar conservation law on a Riemannian manifold. In the case of the Torus, we show that, under a weak property of genuine non-linearity of the flux, the solution converges to its average value in L, 1 ≤ p < +∞. We give a partial result in the general case.

Normalising Audio Transcriptions for Unwritten Languages

The task of documenting the world’s languages is a mainstream activity in linguistics which is yet to spill over into computational linguistics. We propose a new task of transcription normalisation as an algorithmic method for speeding up the process of transcribing audio sources, leading to text collections of usable quality. We report on the application of sentence and word alignment algorith...

Large-Scale Text Collection for Unwritten Languages

Existing methods for collecting texts from endangered languages are not creating the quantity of data that is needed for corpus studies and natural language processing tasks. This is because the process of transcribing and translating from audio recordings is too onerous. A more effective method, we argue, is to involve local speakers in the field location, using an audio-only translation inter...