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"The dream of a universal translation device goes back many decades, long before Douglas Adams's fictional Babel fish provided this service in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Since the advent of computers, research has focused on the design of digital machine translation tools--computer programs capable of automatically translating a text from a source language to a target language. This …
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Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America
Papers from a conference held at the Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research in G?ottingen, Germany, in July 2005 and co-sponsored by the CESifo research network.Here, experts examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and policies to address them using new tools and data.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255400
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- 1 online resource (vi, 324 pages) :illustrations.
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Latin America's political economy of the possible :beyond good revolutionarie…
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- 9780262283021
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- 1 online resource (xix, 250 pages) :illustrations
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Machine translation :a view from the lexicon
"Bonnie Jean Dorr is Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland.""This book describes a novel, cross-linguistic approach to machine translation that solves certain classes of syntactic and lexical divergences by means of a lexical conceptual structure that can be composed and decomposed in language-specific ways. This approach allows the translator to o…
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- 0262290839
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- 1 online resource (xx, 432 pages) :illustrations.
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Readings in machine translation
"A Bradford book."The field of machine translation (MT) -- the automation of translation between human languages -- has existed for more than fifty years. MT helped to usher in the field of computational linguistics and has influenced methods and applications in knowledge representation, information theory, and mathematical statistics. This valuable resource offers the most historically signifi…
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- 9780262280679
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- 1 online resource (xv, 413 pages) :illustrations
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A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South Am…
In 1804 when W. B. Stevenson (fl. 1803–25) arrived on the small island of Mocha, just off the coast of South America, he stepped onto a continent on the brink of mass revolution. Over the next twenty years, he had an extraordinary range of experiences: as a traveller, a Spanish government official, a prisoner, and as secretary to an ex-Royal Navy admiral turned revolutionary. In this three-vo…
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- 9781139060592
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies
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A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South Am…
In 1804 when W. B. Stevenson (fl. 1803–25) arrived on the small island of Mocha, just off the coast of South America, he stepped onto a continent on the brink of mass revolution. Over the next twenty years, he had an extraordinary range of experiences: as a traveller, a Spanish government official, a prisoner, and as secretary to an ex-Royal Navy admiral turned revolutionary. In this three-vo…
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Epidicus by Plautus An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation
Epidicus, a light-hearted comedy by Plautus about the machinations of a trickster slave and the inadequacies of his bumbling masters, appears here in both its original Latin and a sparkling new translation by Catherine Tracy. Epidicus, the cunning slave, is charged with finding his master’s illegitimate daughter and the secret girlfriend of his master’s son, but a comedy of mistaken identit…
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Platinum Metals in the Environment
This edited volume presents new data and insights from the most internationally respected PGE experts, representing a variety of disciplines ranging from chemistry, geochemistry, biology, environmental science to toxicology and environmental health. It builds upon three previous co-edited books published by Springer, Zereini and Alt (Eds.) (1999, 2000 and 2006), incorporating the most recent ad…
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- 978-3-662-44559-4
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- XXII, 492
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- Environmental Science and Engineering
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A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia
This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with pro…
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