The NLP research group at the University of Szeged took part in the development of the Hungarian WordNet between 2005 and 2007. In 2008, they developed a smaller, domain specific WordNet on customs law. This knowledge base contains about 650 concepts cautiously selected by legal experts from the relevant Hungarian statutory legal texts, above all, from two acts and from other laws and decrees. ...

a r t i c l e i n f o The number of preferential trade agreements has greatly increased over the past two decades, yet most existing arrangements take the form of free trade areas, and less than 10% can be considered to be fully fledged customs unions. This paper develops a political economy model of trade policy under imperfect competition to provide a positive explanation for the prevalence o...

People consistently prefer numbers associated with themselves (e.g., birth dates) over other numbers. We argue that such number preferences are also shaped by cultural influences, such as customs regarding the day on which Christmas is celebrated and customs regarding ranking of numerals used in national school’s grading system. Across 6 different countries (N = 657), the day on which Christmas...