Historical studies of the influence imperialism and colonialism on climate science have yet to be brought together into a critical synthesis. This advanced review offers overview key themes this literature with primary intention enabling historians other scholars recognize, specify, acknowledge roles imperial colonial processes in shaping scientific framings climate. Following brief debates old...

Researches of and among Pacificans have been largely externally initiated, funded and controlled. It has become an imperialist tool to colonize, oppress and control the aspirations of Pacificans. This case study shows that research imperialism thrives in Tonga. Economic and social efficiency can be achieved through local initiatives by native researchers. Such an alternative approach must repla...

This paper reviews writings about postdevelopment. It argues that critical scrutiny of the contemporary reconfiguring of postcolonial sovereignties provides a productive route to rethink the geographies of development and postdevelopment. The relationship of development narratives to reconfigurations of imperialism and postcolonialism produces a complex geography of development and postdevelopm...

In this paper we present IDEAL+, a parsing architecture for Italian, which pursues the goal of pairing robustness with deep linguistic analysis by extending a shallow processing kernel with a pool of hybrid constraints for the incremental identification of grammatical relations. The parsing output takes the form of dependency structures representing the full range of instantiated functional rel...

This paper reports on the development and evaluation of an Italian broadcast news corpus at ITC-irst, under a contract with the European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA). The corpus consists of 30 hours of recordings transcribed and annotated with conventions similar to those adopted by the Linguistic Data Consortium for the DARPA HUB-4 corpora. The corpus will be completed and rel...

This presentation reports on recent progress the Linguistic Data Consortium has made in addressing the needs of multiple research communities by collecting, annotating and distributing, simplifying access and developing standards and tools. Specifically, it describes new trends in publication, a sample of recent projects and significant improvements to LDC Online that improve access to LDC data...