Quantum computing exploits quantum phenomena such as superposition and entanglement to realize a form of parallelism that is not available to traditional computing. It offers the potential of significant computational speed-ups in quantum chemistry, materials science, cryptography, and machine learning. The dominant approach to programming quantum computers is to provide an existing high-level language with libraries that allow for the expression of quantum programs. This approach can permit computations that are meaningless in a quantum context; prohibits succint expression of interaction between classical and quantum logic; and does not provide important constructs that are required for quantum programming. We present Q#, a quantum-focused domain-specific language explicitly designed to correctly, clearly and completely express quantum algorithms. Q# provides a type system; a tightly constrained environment to safely interleave classical and quantum computations; specialized syntax; symbolic code manipulation to automatically generate correct transformations of quantum operations; and powerful functional constructs which aid composition.
Abstract Since the concept of ecology was first applied to language over 50 years ago, the field of ecolinguistics has developed into a thriving branch of linguistics that is more than ever closer to the pressing issues of our time. This article aims to trace the historical development of ecolinguistics, discusses the main trends in current research, and provides a brief projection of potential future developments. The first part includes an overview of research connected to Einar Haugen’s article “Ecology of Language”, published in 1972, which focuses on the interaction between languages in multilingual contexts. A large part of the article is then devoted to the role of language in dealing with environmental problems (e.g. aggravating or solving them), which is the biological understanding of ecology in the study of language inspired by Halliday’s 1990 talk “New Ways of Meaning: The Challenge to Applied Linguistics”. Ecolinguistics will certainly have an interesting future. It will take up topics such as climate change, which surprisingly has largely been excluded from ecolinguistic research until recently. Other topics that need to be dealt with are the negative effects of tourism, the migration of human, plant, and animal populations. Ecolinguists, in the future, will also expand their methodology towards multimodal research and study how non-European languages present the ‘environment’, or rather ‘con-vironment’.
El propósito de este artículo es analizar Veinte años y un día, una obra singular dentro de la producción literaria de Jorge Semprún, publicada en el año 2003. Se realiza un estudio de tres temáticas claves en su producción como son la memoria, la ficción y la identidad y, al mismo tiempo, se analiza cómo estas dialogan entre sí. Se trata de la única novela del autor publicada en español, contextualizada en el ecuador del pasado siglo, y donde se combina la ficcional historia protagonizada por la familia Avendaño, en la que aún resuenan viejos traumas de la Guerra Civil, y los recuerdos del propio Semprún, introducidos por medio de la voz narrativa y del personaje de Federico Sánchez, nombre que le servía como seudónimo cuando actuaba como clandestino comunista durante la dictadura de Francisco Franco.
Romanic languages, French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature
Cette étude retrace les relations conflictuelles entre les poètes Pierre de Ronsard et Philippe Desportes, en France, dans le dernier quart du XVIe siècle. Elle situe les points de rencontre et leur rivalité à la Cour, et elle signale les similitudes et les écarts entre leurs œuvres respectives. On découvre ainsi que cette concurrence a influé sur la disposition interne des sections de leurs recueils, c’est-à-dire sur la poétique de leurs Œuvres imprimées.
The development of English language written communication skills across many contexts has been hindered by factors such as examination-oriented cultures, anxiety associated with both oral and written communication, limited opportunities for engaging in authentic communication, and a lack of individualized, personalized feedback. Multiple studies throughout the last decade have explored chatbot integration as a means to address these issues and enhance students’ language learning toolkits. This paper delves into the potential benefits and roles of advanced Generative AI (GenAI) chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT) in enhancing second language (L2) communicative practices. We evaluate findings associated with various types of chatbots and present pedagogical strategies for their application of GenAI in both in-class and out-of-class spaces to support students’ language learning experiences. We also propose future research directions, emphasizing the necessity to explore the ethical use of AI tools, their impact on L2 communication, and the comparative effectiveness of retrieval-based and GenAI-powered chatbots in language education.
—A digital twin improves our use of a cyber-physical system and understanding of its emerging behavior. To this effect, a digital twin is to be developed and configured and potentially also operated by domain experts, who rarely have a professional software engineering background and for whom easy access and support, e.g., in form of low-code platforms are missing. In this paper, we report on an integrated method for the model-driven engineering of low-code development platforms for digital twins that enables domain experts to create and operate digital twins for cyber-physical systems using the most appropriate modeling languages. The foundation of this method is (1) a code generation infrastructure for information systems combined with (2) an extensible base architecture for self-adaptive digital twins and (3) reusable language components for their configuration. Using this method, software engineers first configure the information system with the required modeling languages to generate the low-code development platform for digital twins before domain experts leverage the generated platform to create digital twins. This two-step method facilitates creating tailored low-code development platforms as well as creating and operating customized digital twins for a variety of applications.
Marcos Zampieri, S. Malmasi, Nikola Ljubesic
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We present the results of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, which we organized as part of the fourth edition of the VarDial workshop at EACL’2017. This year, we included four shared tasks: Discriminating between Similar Languages (DSL), Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI), German Dialect Identification (GDI), and Cross-lingual Dependency Parsing (CLP). A total of 19 teams submitted runs across the four tasks, and 15 of them wrote system description papers.
Née en 1974, Astrid Liliana Angulo Cortés, artiste originaire du Pacifique colombien, travaille autour de l’identité afro-colombienne des femmes et autour de la manière dont la société perçoit ces femmes et leurs corps. Cette démarche cherche à rompre avec des stéréotypes, à l’aide d’un regard critique au travers des langages de l’autodérision, de l’humour et de l’ironie. Sa réflexion met en lumière la place du pouvoir dans un pays multiculturel, où l’oppression et l’exclusion des populations noires nient la condition féminine et provoquent le sexisme. Nous verrons en quoi la Constitution de 1991 dans son application, ne satisfait que partiellement les espoirs de liberté et de représentation identitaire. Nous nous intéresserons particulièrement aux œuvres : Un negro es un negro (1997-2001), Negro utópico (2001), Negra Menta (2003).
Al final de El rey de Sierra Morena (1874), Fernández y González declara que su principal fuente fue lo contado por un miembro de la cuadrilla del “Tempranillo”, “el Veneno”. El objetivo de este trabajo es comprobar cuánto hay de ficción y cuánto de realidad en dicho testimonio, así como dilucidar qué imagen del “Tempranillo” había podido trasladarse de la tradición oral al folletín. Para ello se ha realizado un cotejo entre la novela y la biografía del “Veneno” histórico, y hemos comprobado que este había sido ejecutado sin poder sobrevivir para contarle a nuestro autor nada sobre el “Tempranillo”, cuya imagen ofrecida resulta más positiva que la habida en obras anteriores con las que la hemos cotejado.
Basándonos en la experiencia y la observación del francés común contemporáneo durante una estancia lingüística de casi tres años en París (como hispanohablante de origen colombiano), observamos el uso de un conjunto de nominaciones relacionadas con lo que se suele definir en el lenguaje común como la “homosexualidad masculina”. Nos interesamos en las prácticas de nominación que involucran a sujetos masculinos que no se encuentran inscritos, de alguna manera, dentro de la norma heterosexual socialmente impuesta. Después de definir los casos más comunes de la nominación del sujeto masculino no heteronormativo en el francés común contemporáneo, hemos optado por estudiar este fenómeno desde un ángulo “praxemático”, “pragmático”, y que apela a los “saberes epilingüísticos” y al “sentimiento lingüístico” de 50 hablantes de francés contemporáneo en Paris. Este ángulo de estudio nos permitió observar características fundamentales de este fenómeno, como lo son: la banalización de la nominación de los sujetos en mención, sexualización y patologización de las conductas no heteronormativas, el paralelismo entre extranjeros, mujeres, prostitutas y hombres homosexuales o afeminados, la influencia del inglés y la cultura estadounidense, la apropiación de algunas nominaciones para nombrarse a sí mismo, entre otros elementos que podrán verse en el análisis y la conclusión del presente artículo.
In §§ 50-51 of his Pensées sur l’interprétation de la Nature, Diderot draws consequences adverse to religion from the hypothesis of the sensibility of living matter in the Système de la Nature, prompting an endangered Maupertuis to respond. Diderot knows that he is reading his own materialistic conception of matter in Maupertuis but is feigning to object to it, while Maupertuis, who knows that the so-called objection is in truth Diderot’s own view, is compelled to defend himself. Through this rhetoric of feigned misunderstanding, real and fundamental questions (living matter, continuity, totality, unity of natural philosophy) raised by the phenomena of organization are being discussed.
Edson Rosa Francisco de Souza, Paulo Henrique Pereira Silva de Felipe
O objetivo do artigo é analisar, com base no modelo teórico da Gramática Discursivo-Funcional (Hengeveld e Mackenzie 2008), as formas de expressão das categorias de tempo e aspecto em línguas indígenas da família Pano (matis, shanenawa, shawã, arara, katukina, yawanawá e huariapano), considerando-se o princípio de ordenação dessas categorias gramaticais com relação ao predicado da oração, bem como as relações semânticas de escopo entre tais categorias quanto aos níveis e as camadas de organização da gramática. Como resultados, verificamos que a ordenação das categorias de tempo e aspecto nas línguas da amostra tende a respeitar as relações semânticas de escopo entre elas (Hengeveld 2011), mantendo o seguinte padrão: v(erbo)-a(specto)-t(empo)-m(odo). Notamos ainda que o aspecto qualitativo tende a se colocar mais próximo do predicado verbal, por funcionar como operador qualitativo, ao passo que o aspecto quantitativo tende a se posicionar um pouco mais distante do predicado, por funcionar como modificador do estado de coisas como um todo. Essas duas noções aspectuais estão, em geral, sob o escopo da categoria de tempo e a categoria de modo (ilocução), por sua vez, coloca-se mais distante da base, escopando tempo e aspecto.
The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive, theoretical overview of how proverbs are used as a communicative and discursive strategy, taking into account the speaker’s communicative intention. I will pay attention both to the benefits of the use of this type of formulaic sequence in the construction of the speech, and to the illocutionary force and pragmatic implications entailed by these utterances. In order to do so, some considerations will be required – the encoding of the meaning of the proverbs, the decoding process by the addressee, and the way proverbs are inserted in the discourse. This paper inspects the importance of such factors as the need for articulation of fluent speech, the assumption of cultural patterns, the appeal to proverbiality that aligns the speaker with power structures of the community, or the masking of the speaker’s voice behind a collective entity in order to socialize and release tensions related to interpersonal contact.