Abstract In many cases of apparent contact-induced change the contribution genealogical correlation in language sample and its interaction with processes such as matter pattern replication are difficult to specify. order get a better sense relevance shared ancestry, we quantify similarity since late Middle Ages Romance Germanic languages data from selected grammatical domain (expression reflexi...

In this paper I seek to determine what is going on with examples like (1) seen below. Here we see that the normal English word order, wherein prepositions live up to their name, is altered. The preposition to appears to the right (or after) its object. This sort of construction has been dubbed Swiping (an acronym for Sluiced Wh-word Inversion with Prepositions In Northern Germanic) by Merchant ...

In this thesis proposal I present my thesis work, about preand postprocessing for statistical machine translation, mainly into Germanic languages. I focus my work on four areas: compounding, definite noun phrases, reordering, and error correction. Initial results are positive within all four areas, and there are promising possibilities for extending these approaches. In addition I also focus on...

This paper will present an algorithm that evaluates links between one-word compounds and two-word compounds in a bilingual corpus that has been aligned at the sub-sentence level. The phenomenon of linking one-word compounds to multi-word compounds is common when English is being linked to other Germanic languages, and it is difficult to get the links right in the alignment process. The algorith...

This paper aims at a cross-lingual analysis of coreference to abstract entities in Czech and German, two languages that are typologically not very close, since they belong to two different language groups – Slavic and Germanic. We will specifically focus on coreference chains to abstract entities, i.e. verbal phrases, clauses, sentences or even longer text passages. To our knowledge, this type ...

The article addresses the issue of classifying a limited civil circulation thing as medicine that is defined by set attributes including generic ones. After adoption first specialized law — Federal “On Medicines” N 86-FZ dated 22.06.1998 legal standards for different branches where object have been formulated. This explains relevance this research and its practical applicability in further deve...