The Cretan Script Family is a set of related writing systems that have a putative origin in Crete. Recently, Revesz [11] identified the Cretan Hieroglyphs, Linear A, Linear B, the Cypriot syllabary, and the Greek, Old Hungarian, Phoenician, South Arabic and Tifinagh alphabets as members of this script family and using bioinformatics algorithms gave a hypothetical evolutionary tree for their dev...

István Horváth, Veronika Harmat, András Perczel, Villő Pálfi, László Nyitray, Attila Nagy, Emma Hlavanda, Gábor Náray-Szabó, Judit Ovádi Institute of Enzymology, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Karolina út 29 Budapest, H-1113 Hungary, Protein Modeling Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány sétány 1A., Budapest, H-1117 Hungary Departmen...

In this paper, a fast automatic NP alignment technique developed for MetaMorpho TM is presented. MetaMorpho TM is an EBMT-based translation memory that stores not only full sentence pairs but also NP pairs in its database of translations. In order to fulfill speed requirements of a translation memory (segments have to be stored quickly), in the proposed NP alignment algorithm time consuming sta...

In our paper, we present a computational morphology for Old and Middle Hungarian used in two research projects that aim at creating morphologically annotated corpora of Old and Middle Hungarian. In addition, we present the web-based disambiguation tool used in the semi-automatic disambiguation of the annotations and the structured corpus query tool that has a unique but very useful feature of m...

Otfried Gühne, Mátyás Mechler, Géza Tóth, 4 and Peter Adam 3 Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria Research Group for Nonlinear and Quantum Optics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, University of Pécs, Ifjúság út 6., H-7624 Pécs, Hungary Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungarian Academy of Sci...

Annual suicide rates of Hungary were unexpectedly high in the previous century. In our narrative review, we try to depict, with presentation of the raw data, the main descriptive epidemiological features of the Hungarian suicide scene of the past decades. Accordingly, we present the annual suicide rates of the period mentioned and also data on how they varied by gender, age, urban vs. rural liv...

Let T1 denote the first passage time to 1 of a standard Brownian motion. It is well known that as λ → ∞, P{T1 > λ} ∼ cλ−1/2, where c = (2/π). The goal of this note is to establish a capacitarian version of this result. Namely, we will prove the existence of positive and finite constants K1 and K2 such that for all λ > e, K1λ −1/2 ≤ Cap{T1 > λ} ≤ K2λ−1/2 log(λ) · log log(λ), where ‘log’ denotes ...

Hummingbird participated in the 4 monolingual information retrieval tasks (Bulgarian, French, Hungarian and Portuguese) of the Ad-Hoc Track of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2005. In the ad hoc retrieval tasks, the system was given 50 natural language queries, and the goal was to find all of the relevant documents (with high precision) in a particular document set. We conducted diag...

Phonological assimilations add to the invariance problem. It is generally accepted that assimilated word forms are only recognized as an instance of the intended word in phonological contexts in which assimilation is allowed. We examined the mechanisms that drive this compensation for assimilation by presenting Hungarian morphologically complex words and non-words to Hungarian and Dutch listene...

We present a knowledge-based coreference resolution system for noun phrases in Hungarian texts. The system is used as a module in an automated psychological text processing project. Our system uses rules that rely on knowledge from the morphological, syntactic and semantic output of a deep parser and semantic relations form the Hungarian WordNet ontology. We also use rules that rely on Binding ...