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Method for the preparation of a coating comprising oligomeric alkynes

Yves Leterrier, Holger Frauenrath, Stephen Schrettl

The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a coating comprising at least one coating layer on a substrate, the method comprising the steps of a. providing monomers of the type R- (N)x-(L)m- (C=C)n-(L')o- (N')y-R', wherein R is a head moiety, ...

2017

Small Languages, Big Data: Multilingual Computational Tools and Techniques for the Lexicography of Endangered Languages

Martin Benjamin

The Kamusi Project, a multilingual online dictionary website, has as one of its goals to document the lexicons of en-dangered and less-resourced languages (LRLs). Kamusi.org provides a unified platform and repository for this kind of data that is both simp ...

Association for Computational Linguistics2014

Constraints as Control

Viktor Kuncak, Philippe Paul Henri Suter

We present an extension of Scala that supports constraint programming over bounded and unbounded domains. The resulting language, Kaplan, provides the benefits of constraint programming while preserving the existing features of Scala. Kaplan integrates con ...

2012

Tools and Frameworks for Big Learning in Scala: Leveraging the Language for High Productivity and Performance

Martin Odersky, Philipp Haller, Heather Christine Klug

Implementing machine learning algorithms for large data, such as the Web graph and social networks, is challenging. Even though much research has focused on making sequential algorithms more scalable, their running times continue to be prohibitively long. ...

2011

Capabilities for Uniqueness and Borrowing

Martin Odersky, Philipp Haller

An important application of unique object references is safe and efficient message passing in concurrent object-oriented programming. However, to prevent the ill effects of aliasing, practical systems often severely restrict the shape of messages passed by ...

Springer2010