Toward a Transnational Perspective on Seattle’s Japantown: Nagai Kafū’s American Stories

The aim of this paper is to provide a short analysis of the literary representation of the Japantown that evolved in Seattle toward the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, as portrayed by Japanese writer Nagai Kafū in Amerika monogatari (“American Stories”), a collection of short stories and autobiographical sketches based on the author’s experience in the United States, written in the first years of the twentieth century. The author's description and narration of the buildings, life, and people of Japantown provide a detailed idea of the socio-historical realities present in the area of the United States where the first Japanese immigrants arrived and settled

Chapter Digesting the foreign. Food and Eating in the works of Tawada Yōko

This paper aims at analyzing the representation of food and eating in seminal works by Japanese author Tawada Yōko. The first part of this contribution will analyze the connection between food and metamorphosis, focusing especially on Das Bad and Yogisha no yakōressha, works that belong to an earlier stage of the production of Tawada. The second part of this contribution will specifically inspect the representation and the metaphor of food in the works written in the aftermath of the 3.11 such as Kentōshi, Fushi no shima and the poem Hamlet no see

Resumen y extracción de información en tu Tablet

In this article we present a Web-based demonstration of on-line text summarization and information extraction technology. News summarization in Spanish has been implemented in a system that monitors a news provider and summarizes the latest published news. The possibility to generate summaries from user's provided text is also available for English and Spanish. The demonstrator also features event extraction functionalities since it identifies the relevant concepts that characterize several types of events by mining English textual contents.En este artículo describimos la demonstración de una serie de aplicaciones de resumen automático y extracción de informaciones integradas en una tableta. Se presentan funcionalidades para resumir las últimas noticias publicadas en la Web, extraer información sobre eventos concretos, y resumir textos en inglés y español ingresados por el usuario. La aplicación está disponible en un Web-browser y una tableta con sistema operativo Android.We acknowledge support from the Spanish research project SKATER-UPF-TALN TIN2012-38584-C06-03, the EU project Dr. Inventor FP7-ICT-2013.8.1 611383, and UPF projects PlaQUID 65 2013-2014 and PlaQUID 47 2011-2012

Toward a “global novel:” An ecocritical reading of Tawada Yōko’s The Emissary

Aim of this paper is to re-read Tawada Yōko’s novel Kentōshi through the interpretative framework of the new literary category of the “global novel”. Moving from the description of environmental catastrophe my analysis will show how this novel by Tawada can represent not only the first work of this genre written by the author but, for the intrinsic value of Tawada’s literature itself, it can help shape and redefine the category of the global novel itself

¿Es satírico este tweet? Un método automático para la identificación del lenguaje satírico en español

Computational approaches to analyze figurative language are attracting a growing interest in Computational Linguistics. In this paper, we study the characterization of Twitter messages in Spanish that advertise satirical news. We present and evaluate a system able to classify tweets as satirical or not. To this purpose, we concentrate on the tweets published by several satirical and non-satirical Twitter accounts. We model the text of each tweet by a set of linguistically motivated features that aim at capturing the style more than the content of the message. Our experiments demonstrate that our model outperforms a word-based baseline. We also demonstrate that our system models global features of satirical language by showing that it is able to detect if a tweet contains or not satirical contents independently from the account that generated the tweet.La lingüística computacional está cada vez más interesada en el procesamiento del lenguaje figurado. En este artículo estudiamos la detección de noticias satíricas en español y más específicamente la detección de sátira en mensajes de Twitter. Nuestro modelo computacional se basa en la representación de cada mensaje con un conjunto de rasgos diseñados para detectar el estilo satírico y no el contenido. Nuestros experimentos muestran que nuestro modelo siempre funciona mejor que un modelo de bolsa de palabras. También mostramos que el sistema es capaz de detectar este tipo de lenguaje independientemente de la cuenta de Twitter que lo origina.The research described in this paper is partially funded by the SKATER-UPF-TALN project (TIN2012-38584-C06-03)

Complex dynamics of circular cylindrical shells

Complex dynamics of circular cylindrical shells subjected to inertial axial loads are investigated. The shell is vertically mounted on a shaker, i.e. its base is clamped to the shaker fixture, which induces a vertical motion along the shell axis. On the top of the shell a rigid disk is mounted, the vertical motion induced by the shaker induces huge inertial forces due to the rigid body motion. A complicating effect is due to the base actuator, which is an electro-dynamic shaking table; the interaction between the shell and shaker dynamics changes dramatically the system behaviour. The non-linear Sanders–Koiter theory is considered for the structural dynamics: the resulting set of non-linear partial differential equations is coupled with the linear ordinary differential equations that govern the shaker dynamics. A deep analysis of the non-stationary response of the shell is carried out in order to clarify the transition from stationary to non-stationary response. The model is validated by means of experimental results

Experimental Realization of Polarization Qutrits from Non-Maximally Entangled States

Based on a recent proposal [Phys. Rev. A 71, 062337 (2005)], we have experimentally realized two photon polarization qutrits by using non-maximally entangled states and linear optical transformations. By this technique high fidelity mutually unbiased qutrits are generated at a high brilliance level.Comment: RevTex, 8 pages, 6 figure

The Epsilon Variables for Electroweak Precision Tests: A Reappraisal

We update the analysis of the precision electroweak tests in terms of the previously introduced epsilon parameters, by taking into account the new experimental information (i.e. the data presented at the Glasgow Conference) and some recent theoretical progress in the computation of radiative corrections in the Standard Model. At the same time we further clarify some important points, as, for example, the dependence of the analysis on the input values of αs(mZ) and α(mZ)