IN late medieval England, the number of persons literate in the vernacular was growing rapidly.' The same interest in self-improvement which led these people to learn to read also led them to seek out, or to sponsor the production of, works that would make available to them knowledge from both antique and earlier medieval sources knowledge to which as yet, for the most part, only those who coul...

While it is has often been observed that the product of translation is somehow different than non-translated text, scholars have emphasized two distinct bases for such differences. Some have noted interference from the source language spilling over into translation in a source-language-specific way, while others have noted general effects of the process of translation that are independent of so...

In this paper we apply various clustering algorithms to the dialect pronunciation data. At the same time we propose several evaluation techniques that should be used in order to deal with the instability of the clustering techniques. The results have shown that three hierarchical clustering algorithms are not suitable for the data we are working with. The rest of the tested algorithms have succ...

We describe several systems for identifying short samples of Arabic or SwissGerman dialects, which were prepared for the shared task of the 2017 DSLWorkshop (Zampieri et al., 2017). The Arabic data comprises both text and acoustic files, and our best run combined both. The SwissGerman data is text-only. Coincidently, our best runs achieved a accuracy of nearly 63% on both the Swiss-German and A...