Article history: Received 15 December 2009 Received in revised form 14 April 2010 Accepted 17 April 2010

Gender differences in language use have long been of interest in linguistics. The task of automatic gender attribution has been considered in computational linguistics as well. Most research of this type is done using (usually English) texts with authorship metadata. In this paper, we propose a new method of male/female corpus creation based on gender-specific first-person expressions. The meth...

The paper reevaluates Wajahat Ali’s play Domestic Crusaders through the postcolonial views of Edward Said. It explores role Western media in classification and alienation Muslims according to racist misconceptions. Despite differences their respective approaches, two texts—Ali’s Said’s Covering Islam—denounce media’s distortion portrayals Islam Muslims. Accordingly, study aims at discussing tex...

There have been very few direct applications of experimental techniques in macroeconomics for two main reasons. First, macroeconomics is about the in­ teraction between markets, and it is not easy to design an elegant treatment that gets at the essence of how a national economy functions. Second, there is a vestigial prejudice that favors econometrics over putatively unorthodox em­ pirical appr...

Verifiable encryption is a primitive that can be used to build extremely efficient fair exchange protocols where the items exchanged represent digital signatures. Such protocols may be used to digitally sign contracts on the Internet. This paper presents an efficient protocol for verifiable encryption of digital signatures that improves the security and efficiency of the verifiable encryption s...

Para analisar um certo percurso da obra de Said Ali, decisivo na história das ideias linguísticas no Brasil, tomo dois acontecimentos. De lado a publicação Gramática Secundária (uma gramática normativa, que ele chama prática) e Estrutura Língua Portuguesa Mattoso Câmara, em 1970. Com esta análise procuramos refletir sobre questão do purismo, lado, consideração uma norma linguística outro. Podem...