LINGVISTIČKA ANALIZA STRUČNIH TERMINA FAKTORING POSLOVANJA

The comparative analysis of professional terms and expressions used in factoring, presented in this paper, was conducted by investigating a large number of domestic and foreign articles and other sources which provide a description of this type of business interaction. By investigating fifteen scientific papers about factoring published in Serbia, eleven papers published in English, as well as the most important domestic and international legal documents relating to factoring, the most important expressions were identified and extracted alongside the most pressing language problems that arise regarding the introduction of new foreign words into Serbian. The most relevant words of factoring were first explained and analyzed using a comparative method of deduction. Based on the existing text, having in mind all relevant linguistic rules, first a group of key terms in Serbian was introduced, followed by a group of extended terms. The group of extended terms was used to demonstrate the linguistic procedure of the proper way to introduce foreign expressions into Serbian. The paper also points out the lack of certain gaps in relevant terminology which needs to be remedied in order to adjust all of the referential terms regarding factoring into the system and standards of Serbian.Komparativna lingvistička analiza stručnih termina koji se koriste u faktoring poslovanju, izložena u ovom radu, sprovedena je posmatranjem skupa domaćih i stranih članaka i drugih izvora u kojima je data deskripcija ovog vida poslovne aktivnosti privrednih subjekata. Pregledom petnaest stručnih radova na temu faktoringa objavljenih u Srbiji, jedanaest radova iste tematike inostranih autora publikovanih na engleskom jeziku, kao i najvažnije međunarodne i domaće regulative, identifikovani su najbitniji izrazi i jezički problemi koji se tiču adaptiranja originalnih engleskih termina i opisa u srpski jezik. Najvažniji termini faktoringa detaljno su obrazloženi uporednom analizom. Na osnovu postojeće literature, uzimajući u obzir lingvističke norme, predložen je, najpre ključni, a zatim i prošireni skup termina na srpskom jeziku. Na proširenom skupu termina pokazan je jezički propisan postupak preuzimanja stranih izraza. U radu je takođe ukazano i na znatan broj pojmovnih nedostataka koji treba da budu otklonjeni kako bi se stručna terminologija koja se odnosi na faktoring poslovanje u što je moguće većoj meri prilagodila standardima srpskog jezika

Reliability, Validity, and Writing Assessment: A Timeline

Looking at the issue of validity and test validation, the historical and the theoretical progression has been well described both when it comes to educational assessment in general and language assessment in particular. A clear progression can be seen starting in the 1920s and culminating in the late 1980s/early 1990s (with minor notable developments since), and it is an advancement motivated and driven almost solely by new theoretical and practical considerations. Securing validity and validation with regard to writing assessment in particular, however, took a more winding route and was primarily shaped by a power struggle between externally administered standardized testing (and the supporting administrative bodies) on one side, and the practicing teachers of writing at higher education institutions on the other. The paper at hand outlines this evolution and gives a timeline of the events and major developments that have fueled it and explores the cutting edge of today

Non-linear lateral buckling analysis of aluminium alloy channel beams

This research paper presents the comparative analysis of lateral-torsional buckling resistance of structural aluminium alloy members, accounting for the effects of initial geometrical imperfections. The results of non-linear numerical analysis, conducted using ABAQUS software, are compared with the results obtained by utilizing the procedure for calculation of LTB resistance suggested by EN 1999-1-1. The purpose of the analysis is the assessment of accuracy of the above-mentioned code-prescribed design method using the real Al channelsection members with initial imperfections on which the load does not act in the shear centre

Can you really know a word by the company it keeps? : an investigation into the contextual influence on aspects of polysemy

One of the most pressing issues in lexical semantics is surely the lack of solid empirical criteria in accounting for polysemy. The fact that to date the only viable mode of word sense disambiguation, identifying category membership, and constructing lexical networks has been based on the researcher's own judgment implies that clearly defining the boundaries of different interpretations of a polysemous lexeme together with the links between them and expressing such a statement in empirical (linguistic) criteria is practically impossible. The methodology explored within the paper promises a fully criteria-based account of word senses based on the use of representative language corpora. The paper aims to test this claim, raised once again by the recently re-emerging corpus-based decompositional approaches to accounting for word senses. Through the application of one of the most recent versions of this methodology, namely Behavioral Profiling, to the polysemous verb look, the paper will try to show how reliable the methodology is in its promise of an objective and purely linguistic explanation of polysemy.Keine Zusammenfassung vorhandenNikola DobrićAbweichender Titel laut Übersetzung der Verfasserin/des VerfassersKlagenfurt, Alpen-Adria-Univ., Diss., 2012OeBB(VLID)241065

On Some Problems of Meaning - Polysemy Between Sense Enumeration and Core Meaning Paradigms

Polysemy is a semantic phenomenon which occurs when one lexical item has more meanings which can be seen as related to each other. It is to be distinguished from the other extreme pole of ambiguity, homonymy, which occurs when two or more unrelated meanings are by means of an etymologi- cal accident tied to the same orthographic and/or phonological form. Even though polysemy can be considered as a non-issue, since discourse easily solves all of the problems of possible ambiguity for use in everyday language use, accounting for it (in an systematic manner) in terms of how polysemy is represented in the mental lexicon and how to account for the criteria govern- ing the meaning distinctions and the interaction of meanings, for example, is a challenge still not fully met. The paper first gives an overview of the exist- ing theoretical accounts of polysemy which arose over the course of the last two centuries to meet one of the said challenges, namely how polysemy is represented in our minds. The discussion is followed up by a conclusion of the predominant and most plausible theoretical view on multiple meanings stem- ming from the presented philosophical, semantic, and cognitive frameworks and models

Towards an error taxonomy for student writing

Current practice in writing assessment has tended to divert attention from the notion of error in favour of more global and intuitive descriptions of learner performance. As a result, experts tend to disagree in the way errors in student writing are described. This brings about complications for student feedback as well as for studying the construct validity (cf. Messick 1989) of rater-mediated assessments of student writing by means of computer-corpus-based methodology, which requires reliable annotation. In order to alleviate these complications, an error taxonomy is proposed which could serve as a basis for student feedback on the one hand, and as a basis for corpus-based studies into the construct validity of large-scale assessments of writing, on the other

Real-valued evolutionary multi-modal optimization driven by hill-valley clustering

textabstractModel-based evolutionary algorithms (EAs) adapt an underlying search model to features of the problem at hand, such as the linkage between problem variables. The performance of EAs often deteriorates as multiple modes in the fitness landscape are modelled with a unimodal search model. The number of modes is however often unknown a priori, especially in a black-box setting, which complicates adaptation of the search model. In this work, we focus on models that can adapt to the multi-modality of the fitness landscape. Specifically, we introduce Hill-Valley Clustering, a remarkably simple approach to adaptively cluster the search space in niches, such that a single mode resides in each niche. In each of the located niches, a core search algorithm is initialized to optimize that niche. Combined with an EA and a restart scheme, the resulting Hill-Valley EA (HillVallEA) is compared to current state-of-the-art niching methods on a standard benchmark suite for multi-modal optimization. Numerical results in terms of the detected number of global optima show that, in spite of its simplicity, HillVallEA is competitive within the limited budget of the benchmark suite, and shows superior performance in the long run