A Pattern Matching method for finding Noun and Proper Noun Translations from Noisy Parallel Corpora

We present a pattern matching method for compiling a bilingual lexicon of nouns and proper nouns from unaligned, noisy parallel texts of Asian/Indo-European language pairs. Tagging information of one language is used. Word frequency and position information for high and low frequency words are represented in two different vector forms for pattern matching. New anchor point finding and noise elimination techniques are introduced. We obtained a 73.1\% precision. We also show how the results can be used in the compilation of domain-specific noun phrases.Comment: 8 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript file. To appear in the Proceedings of the 33rd AC

Hong Kong – Does legal set-off exist?

Eugene Fung (Barrister, Hong Kong) considers the origins of legal set-off and the preservation of its status in Hong Kong. Published in the Letter from … section of Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

On the topology of components of some Springer fibers and their relation to Kazhdan-Lusztig theory

We describe the irreducible components of Springer fibers for hook and two-row nilpotent elements of gl_n(C) as iterated bundles of flag manifolds and Grassmannians. We then relate the topology (in particular, the intersection homology Poincare' polynomials) of the intersections of these components with the inner products of the Kazhdan-Lusztig basis elements of irreducible representations of the rational Iwahori-Hecke algebra of type A corresponding to the hook and two-row Young shapes.Comment: This work has been submitted to Advances in Mathematics (Academic Press) for possible publication

The Glasgow Necropolis : theft, bribery and drunken gate keepers in a city of the dead

Wun Fung Chan is a geographer working at the University of Strathclyde. On visiting Glasgow City Archives he came across nine Necropolis Committee books containing some lively insights into Victorian landscapes of death