The role of prominence scales for the disambiguation of grammatical functions in Russian

Recent studies on Norwegian, German, and English show that the ordering of constituents in transitive sentences depends on their animacy, definiteness, pronominalization and length. It has further been suggested that these properties can be used to predict grammatical functions of NPs. We examine whether these properties play the same role in Russian, a language with a rather free word order and a rich morphologically-marked case system.In a corpus-based study, we analyzed 300 SVO and 300 OVS sentences taken from a novel and a newspaper. The results suggest that animacy and pronominalization can be used to predict the position of constituents, but not their grammatical functions. When the pre-verbal position coincided with the subject position (SVO), the probability of animate NP to be the subject was the same as its probability to be initialized. Pronominalization was a reliable indicator of subjecthood in SVO sentences but a strong predictor of objecthood in OVS sentences. Thus, when case-marking distinguishes between grammatical functions, word order primarily indicates information structure allowing marked constituents in a marked OVS order. This is not taken into account by approaches that use such properties for the disambiguation of grammatical functions.</p

Using a Treebank for Finding Opposites

Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. Editors: Markus Dickinson, Kaili Müürisep and Marco Passarotti. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 9 (2010), 139-150. © 2010 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) http://omilia.uio.no/nealt . Electronically published at Tartu University Library (Estonia) http://hdl.handle.net/10062/15891

Analysis of conceptual approaches to the definition of the concept of "functional literacy"

The relevance of the article is due to the attention paid by the pedagogical community to the category of "functional literacy", the ambiguity of its interpretation in scientific research, the requirement to respond to the changing demand of society for the quality of education. Moreover, the results of a survey of practicing teachers indicate some difficulty in understanding functional literacy. The purpose of the study is to analyze conceptual approaches to defining the concept of "functional literacy" and develop a generalized model of the structural elements of functional literacy. To achieve this goal, a combination of general scientific methods was used: a descriptive method, including methods of comparison, interpretation and generalization; synchronous theoretical analysis of conceptual approaches to the definition of the concept of "functional literacy" and its components; questioning; pedagogical forecasting; modeling. As a result of the study, conceptual approaches to the definition of the concept of "functional literacy" were analyzed, the definition of the concept of "functional literacy" and its components – mathematical literacy, natural science literacy, reading literacy, financial literacy – was given. In the conclusions, the authors note that the analysis of conceptual approaches to the definition of the concept of "functional literacy" and its components contributes to the improvement of the ways and mechanisms for the formation of functional literacy of students

Determination of the Depth of Closed Blind Cracks in Non-metal Check Samples and Test Panels for Penetrant Testing

Check samples and test panels are used to quality assessment and comparing sensitivity of sets of penetrant material. Authors made research in field of manufacturing non-metal test-objects with specified parameters, such as length a width. The paper considers a technique to determine the depth of blind closed cracks in check samples and non-metal test panels for penetrant inspection with a special tool to measure the depth of the undercut depth or a gauge indicator on the outboard support

Determination of the Depth of Closed Blind Cracks in Non-metal Check Samples and Test Panels for Penetrant Testing

Check samples and test panels are used to quality assessment and comparing sensitivity of sets of penetrant material. Authors made research in field of manufacturing non-metal test-objects with specified parameters, such as length a width. The paper considers a technique to determine the depth of blind closed cracks in check samples and non-metal test panels for penetrant inspection with a special tool to measure the depth of the undercut depth or a gauge indicator on the outboard support

Automatic Relation Extraction — Can Synonym Extraction Benefit from Antonym Knowledge?

Proceedings of the NODALIDA 2009 workshop WordNets and other Lexical Semantic Resources — between Lexical Semantics, Lexicography, Terminology and Formal Ontologies. Editors: Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Anna Braasch, Sanni Nimb and Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 7 (2009), 17-20. © 2009 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) http://omilia.uio.no/nealt . Electronically published at Tartu University Library (Estonia) http://hdl.handle.net/10062/9209

Indium incorporation in quaternary Inx Aly Ga1-x-y N for UVB-LEDs

Consistent studies of the quaternary composition are rare as it is impossible to fully determine the quaternary composition by X-ray diffraction or deduce it from that of ternary alloys. In this paper we determined the quaternary composition by wavelength dispersive X-ray spectroscopy of Inx Aly layers grown by metal organic vapor phase epitaxy. Further insights explaining the peculiarities of Inx Aly Ga1-x-yN growth in a showerhead reactor were gained by simulations of the precursor decomposition, gas phase adduct formation and indium incorporation including desorption. The measurements and simulations agree very well showing that the indium incorporation in a range from 0% to 2% is limited by desorption which is enhanced by the compressive strain to the relaxed Al0.5Ga0.5N buffer layer as well as indium incorporation into AlN particles forming in the gas phase. Utilizing Inx Aly Ga1-x-yN layers containing 2% of indium for multiple quantum wells (MQWs), it was possible to show an almost five times higher photoluminescence intensity of InAlGaN MQWs in comparison to AlGaN MQWs