a foreign language teaching method is supposed to take into account the real communicative needs of the foreign language learner. using literary texts is a suitable way not only to teach a foreign language but to consider particular facts that relate to human and cultural needs of learners. using the humanistic-oriented literary texts as an authentic document in the foreign language course allo...

We present a fast compression and decompression technique for natural language texts. The novelty is that the exact search can be done on the compressed text directly, using any known sequential pattern matching algorithm. Approximate search can also be done ee-ciently without any decoding. The compression scheme uses a semi-static word-based modeling and a Huu-man coding where the coding alpha...

The purpose of this study is to develop a plausible method to code and compile Buddhist texts automatically from original Tibetan scripts into the Romanized form. We extract syllable from Tibetan texts and recognize automatically the Tibetan characters. The set of Tibetan characters consists of basic 30 consonants, 76 combination characters, and 4 vowels. Despite of the limited number of Tibeta...

Educators are struggling finding or developing object oriented example programs of high quality. Common examples are often perceived as not fully faithful to all principles and guidelines of the object oriented paradigm or as not following general pedagogical principles and practices. This working group aims at investigating the “State-ofPractice” of object-oriented example programs for novices...

A brief survey of user-oriented MT evaluation methodologies suggests that they all suffer drawbacks in terms of time and/or generality and/or user interpretability. The time and cost of evaluation, coupled with system prices, make it increasingly less likely that full-scale pre-purchase evaluation by a single potential user will be economic. It is clearly desirable that MT systems should be “ge...

The rate at which the field of internal medicine is advancing certainly necessitates a text that is both complete and up to date. While there are many such texts on the market, The Textbook of Internal Medicine seems to be a refreshing new addition to the ones available. Its depth of coverage and novel style will most certainly allow it to find a niche in an environment heavily populated by int...