this paper reports results from a corpus-based study that explored the frequency of words in the abstracts of applied linguistics journal articles. the abstracts of major articles in leading applied linguists journals, published since 2005 up to november 2001 were analyzed using software modules from the compleat lexical tutor. the output includes a list of the most frequent content words, list...

Kawâkib is a tool allowing feedback between arabic corpus and grammar. As far as methodology is concerned, this interactive online software implements and illustrates the grammar variation method that aims to determine the optimal algorithm, either for morphology – which is essential in semitic languages or for syntax. The software also permits the search for criteria for text filtering. Mots-c...

We present the results of text reuse detection, based on the corpus of scanned and OCR-recognized Finnish newspapers and journals from 1771 to 1910. Our study draws on BLAST, a software created for comparing and aligning biological sequences. We show different types of text reuse in this corpus, and also present a comparison to the software Passim, developed at the Northeastern University in Bo...

When analysing a corpus of software, researchers often ask questions that entail exploration and navigation, such as “what packages contain fat interfaces in open-source systems?”, “how consistently is the code being commented?” and “are naming conventions being followed?”. The answers to these questions can impact software maintainability and evolution. Software visualisation can be of aid to ...

The article presents current state of affairs in several projects conducted by the Slovak National Corpus department of the L’. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences. We describe the Slovak National Corpus, Corpus of Spoken Slovak, tools used for linguistics analysis and an ongoing effort to create Slovak WordNet. 1 Slovak National Corpus The Slovak National Corpus is a huge...

Is it possible to make statistical inference broadly accessible to non-statisticians without sacrificing mathematical rigor or inference quality? This paper describes BayesDB, a probabilistic programming platform that aims to enable users to query the probable implications of their data as directly as SQL databases enable them to query the data itself. This paper focuses on four aspects of Baye...

Offline simulation is often used by plant builders for the design of metallurgical plants and to ensure that performance expectations are met. Whereas some simulation models cover operations across the complete plant (e.g., throughput calculations), smaller simulation models focus on individual topics such as closed-loop control, vibration behavior and the functionality of single components. Th...

This paper presents the design procedure and implementation results for a 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) digital data predistortion technique for satellite communications using an Altera digital signal processing (DSP) board. The implementation uses Matlab/Simulink, Altera DSP Builder, and Altera’s Stratix EP1S80 DSP development board. The design is first implemented in the Matlab/...