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From chaos to chaos theory, from the primordial perception of the world as disorderly to the scientific research of disorder a long distance has been covered. This path implies openness of mind and scientific boldness which connect mythological perceptions of the world with philosophical and scientific interpretations of phenomena throughout the world in a quite distinctive way resting on the creation of a model and application of computing. Owing to this, for the first time instead of asking What awaits us in the future? we can ask What can be done in the future? and get a reliable scientific answer to the question.
In reconsideration of the composition and operation of European law, it is the description of its underlying mentality that may cast best light on the query whether European law is the extension of domestic laws or a sui generis product. As to its action, European law is destructive upon the survival of traditions of legal positivism, for it recalls post modern clichés rather. Like a solar system with planets, it is two-centred from the beginning, commissioning both implementation and judicial check to member states. As part of global post modernism, a) European law stems from artificial reality construction freed from particular historical experience and, indeed, anything given hic et nunc. By its operation, b) it dynamises large structures and sets in motion that what is chaos itself. It is owing to reconstructive human intent solely that any outcome can at all be seen as fitting to some ideal of order, albeit neither operation nor daily management strives for implementing any systemicity. This is the way in which the European law becomes adequate reflection of the underlying (macro) economic basis, which it is to serve as superstructure. Accordingly, c) the entire construct is operated (as integrated into one well-working unit) within the framework of an artificially animated dynamism. With its “order out of chaos” philosophy it assures member states’ standing involvement and competition, achieving a flexibly self-adapting (and unprecedentedly high degree of) conformity.
Die Hauptthese dieses Papers geht von dem Konzept der normativen Verfassung der Nachkriegzeit aus und setzt sich kritisch mit dem Konzept des 19. Jahrhunderts „Verfassungswandlung“ auseinander. Das Konzept des Verfassungswandels ist mit der Verfassungsdemokratie inkompatibel. Statt von einem Verfassungswandel zu sprechen, sollte man die Entwicklung des Sinns der Normen in der Zeit als dynamische Interpretation bezeichnen.
There is an increasing interest in incorporating significant citizen participation into the law-making process by developing the use of the internet in the public sphere. However, no well-accepted e-participation model has prevailed. This article points out that, to be successful, we need critical reflection of legal theory and we also need further institutional construction based on the theoretical reflection.
Contemporary dominant legal theories demonstrate too strong an internal legal point of view to empower the informal, social normative development on the internet. Regardless of whether we see the law as a body of rules or principles, the social aspect is always part of people’s background and attracts little attention. In this article, it is advocated that the procedural legal paradigm advanced by Jürgen Habermas represents an important breakthrough in this regard.
Further, Habermas’s co-originality thesis reveals a neglected internal relationship between public autonomy and private autonomy. I believe the co-originality theory provides the essential basis on which a connecting infrastructure between the legal and the social could be developed. In terms of the development of the internet to include the public sphere, co-originality can also help us direct the emphasis on the formation of public opinion away from the national legislative level towards the local level; that is, the network of governance.1
This article is divided into two sections. The focus of Part One is to reconstruct the co-originality thesis (section 2, 3). This paper uses the application of discourse in the adjudication theory of Habermas as an example. It argues that Habermas would be more coherent, in terms of his insistence on real communication in his discourse theory, if he allowed his judges to initiate improved interaction with the society. This change is essential if the internal connection between public autonomy and private autonomy in the sense of court adjudication is to be truly enabled.
In order to demonstrate such improved co-original relationships, the empowering character of the state-made law is instrumental in initiating the mobilization of legal intermediaries, both individual and institutional. A mutually enhanced relationship is thus formed; between the formal, official organization and its governance counterpart aided by its associated ‘local’ public sphere. Referring to Susan Sturm, the Harris v Forklift Systems Inc. (1930) decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the field of sexual harassment is used as an example.
Using only one institutional example to illustrate how the co-originality thesis can be improved is not sufficient to rebuild the thesis but this is as much as can be achieved in this article.
In Part Two, the paper examines, still at the institutional level, how Sturm develops an overlooked sense of impartiality, especially in the derivation of social norms; i.e. multi-partiality instead of neutral detachment (section 4). These two ideas should be combined as the criterion for impartiality to evaluate the legitimacy of the joint decision-making processes of both the formal official organization and ‘local’ public sphere.
Sturm’s emphasis on the deployment of intermediaries, both institutional and individual, can also enlighten the discourse theory. Intermediaries are essential for connecting the disassociated social networks, especially when a breakdown of communication occurs due to a lack of data, information, knowledge, or disparity of value orientation, all of which can affect social networks. If intermediaries are used, further communication will not be blocked as a result of the lack of critical data, information, knowledge or misunderstandings due to disparity of value orientation or other causes.
The institutional impact of the newly constructed co-originality thesis is also discussed in Part Two. Landwehr’s work on institutional design and assessment for deliberative interaction is first discussed. This article concludes with an indication of how the ‘local’ public sphere, through e-rulemaking or online dispute resolution, for example, can be constructed in light of the discussion of this article.
Principles can be directly expressed by law or may be found in jurisprudence, philosophy or literature. Often the principles are contradictory, as in the case of transparency and the taboo of state information disclosure. At the individual level, transparency and taboo, the sense and purpose of privacy may compliment each other. Moreover the rise of cyberspace has blurred the distinction between privacy and public. The taboo is widening. The development of the internet and of the social networks can alter the once apparently stable legal situation, bringing a new dynamic into play in both state and individual spheres. In the context of the internet it is as though the secret workings of the state are projected on its "walls and facades", reminding us of Plato's "Myth of the Cave". As Plato described, disillusionment and reflexive defensiveness can follow.
In the intersection between law, science and technology lies the debate on the overcoming of the boundaries of the biological structure of the human being and its implications on the idea of human rights, on the concept of person and on the conception of equality – being the latter a fundamental tenet of a democracy.
Posthumanism assumes a biological inadequacy of the human body regarding the quantity, complexity and quality of information which it can muster. The same occurs with the needs of accuracy, speed or strength demanded by the contemporary environment. Under such perspective, the body is considered to be an inefficient structure, with a short lifespan, easy to break and hard to fix.
The body, always seen as the locus for the definition of human, emerges as the object of a commodification process that seeks to exonerate men from their burden - by declination towards a virtual existence, totally free and rational - or to enhance them with bionic devices or drugs.
This issue has already been the subject of attention by many scholars like Savulescu, Rodotà, Broston, Fukuyama and even Habermas.
Therefore, the aim of this paper is to seek, by criticism and revision of the positions on the foreseen problems of this process, an adequate theoretical approach on issues like the concept of person and its connection with the idea of human rights in order to promote the fundamental statement that all men are equal without disregard to the values of diversity and personal identity.
Der zweifache Urteilsspruch des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte im Fall “Lautsi gegen Italien” hat sich zum Paradigma der Schwierigkeiten entwickelt, welche Europa bei der adäquaten Ansiedlung der Religion im öffentlichen Bereich erfährt. Die Lösung kann sich ändern, wenn, anstatt dem politischen Problem (wann ist die Ausübung von Macht erlaubt) einzuräumen, die Möglichkeit einer praktischen Vernunft und ihre Verträglichkeit mit dem religiösen Glauben zum Ausgangspunkt gemacht wird. Diese würde zweifelsfrei zu einer politischen Fragestellung zu einer Präsenz der Religion im öffentlichen Bereich einladen, die auf eine positive Laizität mehr Rücksicht nimmt, dabei den Laizismus ablehnt, der darauf drängt, die Rationalität zur Macht auch einen nicht kognitivistischen Code zu reduzieren.
When judges are authorised to invalidate legal acts for being unconstitutional, the competence of the legislator is directly concerned. The question raises, if thus judges do not usurp legislative power. In the traditional doctrine of the separation of powers the parliament is the first power, based on its direct democratic legitimacy. Yet cancelling legal acts completely or partially does evoke more irritations in the public that could be expected. The people seem to have more confidence to the assumed impartiality of the judges than to the results of the parliamentary work which seems to be dominated by the struggles of the parties. The necessity of judicial review mainly is based on the consideration that individual rights even in an authentic democratic system may be violated by a legal act of the parliament. In this case constitutional courts have the very task to defend individual rights, principles of liberty and authentic equality. Therefore it is justified to speak of the “jurisdiction of liberty”, as the Italian constitutional expert Cappelletti has said. But also without such legitimacy in many countries the Courts intervene in the field of the legislator. The courts themselves discuss the limits of judicial interventions, emphasising themselves, that they have to respect the legislative decisions principally, but do not abide always by their own proclaimed principles. In Spanish recent publications it is spoken of the principle “in dubio pro legislatore”, (in case of doubt in favour the legislator), reminding of “in dubio pro reo”, in order to treat the legislative power not worse than the defendant in a criminal process..
Human rights and climate policy – toward a new concept of freedom, protection rights, and balancing
(2012)
Neither the scope of “protection obligations” which are based on fundamental rights nor the theory of constitutional balancing nor the issue of “absolute” minimum standards (fundamental rights nuclei, “Grundrechtskerne”), which have to be preserved in the balancing of fundamental rights, can be considered satisfactorily resolved–in spite of intensive, long-standing debates. On closer analysis, the common case law definitions turn out to be not always consistent. This is generally true and with respect to environmental fundamental rights at the national, European, and international level. Regarding the theory of balancing, for the purpose of a clear balance of powers the usual principle of proportionality also proves specifiable. This allows a new analysis, whether fundamental rights have absolute cores. This question is does not only apply to human dignity and the German Aviation Security Act, but even if environmental policy accepts death, e.g. regarding climate change. Overall, it turns out that an interpretation of fundamental rights which is more multipolar and considers the conditions for freedom more heavily–as well as the freedom of future generations and of people in other parts of the world–develops a greater commitment to climate protection.
[D]ieser Veranstaltungstyp [wurde] 1996 etabliert […] und die komparatistisch angelegte Konferenz der Abteilung 2012 [wird] nunmehr zum 17. Mal in Folge ausgerichtet […]. Über den Kreis der 15 Referenten hinaus war sie mit etwa 120 aktiv mitdiskutierenden Teilnehmern gut besucht. Thematisch orientiert sich die Konferenz jeweils an einem Semesterkurs, den die Studierenden der am Department angebotenen Master‐Studiengänge (Deutsch, Französisch, Spanisch, Italienisch) durchlaufen.
Seit der zweiten Hälfte des letzten Jahrhunderts zieht die Übersetzung im Fremdsprachenunterricht (FSU) das Interesse der Fremdsprachendidaktiker auf sich. In den anhaltenden Diskussionen über den Stellenwert der Übersetzung im FSU bestehen aber immer noch verschiedene Meinungen. Die Meinungsverschiedenheiten beruhen vor allem auf diversen miteinander konkurrierenden Lerntheorien und damit auch auf unterschiedlichen methodischen Prinzipien. Im Zusammenhang mit den herrschenden didaktischen Richtungen und mit den unterschiedlichen Lernzielen, die im Fremdsprachenunterricht verfolgt werden können, wird auch die Übersetzung unter mehreren Gesichtspunkten betrachtet und bewertet. Hinsichtlich der Funktion der Übersetzung ist es inzwischen üblich geworden, zwischen zwei Verwendungsweisen zu unterscheiden: Einerseits wird die Übersetzung als ein methodisches Mittel zur Festigung, Erweiterung und Prüfung sprachlicher Fertigkeiten angewendet, andererseits ist sie als eine eigene Fertigkeit selbst ein Übungs- und Unterrichtsziel.
Çeviribilimde Yöntem Sorunu
(2004)
Dieser Beitrag bearbeitet und behandelt die Funktion der Methodologie beim Erwerb wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse in Bezug auf das Verstehen des Übersetzungsvorgangs. Wie bekannt ist das Problem der Methodologie eines der meist diskutierten Themen in der Übersetzungswissenschaft. Obwohl inzwischen eine Reihe von wissenschaftlichen Ansätzen zu diesem Thema existiert, hat die Übersetzungswissenschaft noch keinen theoretischen Rahmen entwickelt, in dem der betreffende Forschungsgegenstand definiert wird. Aus diesem Grund unterscheiden sich die Arten der Angehensweise von übersetzungswissenschaftlichen Problemen. Außerdem scheinen die Definitionsbemühungen hinsichtlich des Forschungsgegenstandes der Übersetzungswissenschaft und der Methodenprobleme der übersetzungswissenschaftlichen Ansätze nicht unbedingt zufrieden stellende Antworten auf die Fragen in diesem Bereich zu liefern. Das Definitionsproblem der genauen theoretischen und methodologischen Orientierung der Übersetzungswissenschaft in der allgemeinen Wissenschaftswelt hängt neben ihrem strittigen Standort als einer neuen Disziplin auch von zwei weiteren Grundfaktoren ab: 1. Probleme, mit denen man bei der Festlegung einer vereinenden Übersetzungstheorie konfrontiert ist, da die Übersetzung einen vielseitigen und komplexen Objektbereich umfaßt; 2. ungenügende Forschungen in Bezug auf methodologische Ansätze in der Übersetzungswissenschaft. Wie bekannt profitiert man bei der Entwicklung einer Übersetzungstheorie auch von der Methodologie anderer Disziplinen. Diese Methoden sind wie vielseitige Mittel, die bei der Lösung von Problemen in Bereichen wie übersetzungswissenschaftliche Forschungen, Didaktik des Übersetzens und Übersetzungsprozess angewandt werden können. Diese Methoden werden außerdem einen Beitrag dazu leisten, definierende Übersetzungsmethoden hinsichtlich über-setzungswissenschaftlicher Ansätze für das Verstehen des Übersetzungsvor-ganges zu entwickeln.
Seit der zweiten Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts sind im theoretischen Bereich der Übersetzungswissenschaft wichtige Veränderungen zu beobachten. Von Cicero bis zur zweiten Hälfte des letzten Jahrhunderts verlagerte sich die ausgangssprachenorientierte Übersetzungsauffassung auf die zielsprachenorientierten. Somit haben sich immer mehr die zielsprachenorientierte Forschungen im Bereich der Übersetzungstheorie als ein übersetzungsrelevantes Phänomen durchgesetzt. Insbesondere haben die nach den 70’er Jahren entworfenen Übersetzungstheorien, in denen der Übersetzer immer mehr in das Zentrum des Forschungsinteresse rückt und entsprechende übersetzungsprozessualorientierte Ansätze sich aufdrängen, an Wichtigkeit eingebüßt. Nach diesen Ansätzen rücken normative Belange in Bezug auf erfolgreiche Übersetzung in Form von Prinzipien und Regeln in den Vordergrund. Heutzutage ist das Interesse an theoretische Forschungen besonders auf deskriptive Beschreibungen des Übersetzungsphänomens gerichtet. Damit die Theorie mit der Praxis übereinstimmt, sollte man vor allem die allgemeinen Grundsätze der Übersetzungstheorien, die Grundlage zur Praxis bilden, explizit verarbeiten. Wenn man auch nicht erwartet, dass die Übersetzungstheorien alle in der Praxis der Übersetzung entstandenen Probleme bewältigen können, ist aber trotzdem davon auszugehen, dass der Übersetzer, welcher über die allgemeine theoretische Grundlage verfügt, in seiner Übersetzungstätigkeit mehr Erfolg haben wird, weshalb die Praxis und Theorie voneinander recht gering abweichen werden. Die Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Tatbestand, also mit der Theorie, kann die Lösung der probablen Fehler erleichtern. Außerdem besteht somit die Möglichkeit, die Effizienz der Theorie auf die Anwendung herauszufinden und demzufolge kann die durch praktische Ausführung ermittelten Ergebnisse eine ganzheitliche Präzisierung der theoretischen Beschreibungen nach sich ziehen.
An den Studiengängen der Abteilung für Germanistik und Deutsch als Fremdsprache unserer Universitäten nimmt das Fach „Deutsche Grammatik“ einen wichtigen Platz ein. Zu beobachten ist dabei, dass die Studierenden der grammatischen Strukturen des Deutschen sowohl in morphosyntaktischer und funktioneller Hinsicht nicht auf erforderlichem Niveau beherrschen. Dabei soll besondere Kraft darauf verwendet werden, die morphosyntaktischern Kenntnisse in aktive Sprachfähigkeit umzusetzen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist, Gedanken und Vorschläge zu entwickeln, wie der Unterricht hinsichtlich unserer Zielgruppe fruchtbar, besonders für die funktionelle Beherrschung der deutschen Grammatik gestaltet werden kann.
Çağımızda bilim, teknik, sanat, kültür, ekonomi ve tıp alanındaki hızlı gelişmelerle birlikte çok sayıda yeni bilim dalları ve uzmanlık alanları ortaya çıkmıştır. Buna koşut olarak çeşitli bilim alanlarındaki çalışmalar ve araştırmalar da hızla artmış ve her bilim dalının kendine özgü bir uzmanlık dili oluşmuştur. Bu çalışmada, bir uzmanlık dili olan "Dilbilim Dili"nin özellikleri ve öğretimine ilişkin sorunlar irdelenecek ve çözüm önerileri geliştirilmeye çalışılacaktır. Bu konuyu ele alırken kısaca "Uzmanlık Dili" kavramı, tanımı ve özellikleri konusuna değinmek istiyorum.
Um den vielfältigen und komplexen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Literatur und Architektur nachzugehen, versammelte die School of Language & Literature des Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) unter Federführung von Dr. Robert Krause und Jun.‐Prof. Dr. Evi Zemanek Wissenschaftler aus philologischen und kunsthistorischen Disziplinen zu einer dreitägigen Tagung (1.‐3. Dezember 2011). Die Breite der Annäherungen an die „Baukunst (in) der Literatur“, wie sie sich in den Vorträgen abzeichnete, verdeutlichte nicht nur, wie stark das – selbst mit dem 'spatial turn' – nicht unbedingt systematisch perspektivierte Forschungsfeld sich unabhängig und dezentral ausdifferenziert hat sondern auch inwiefern ein endliches Zusammentreffen versierter Forscher längst überfällig gewesen ist.
From 12.12.2010 to 17.12.2010, the Dagstuhl Seminar 10501 "Advances and Applications of Automata on Words and Trees" was held in Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available.
Seminar: 10501 - Advances and Applications of Automata on Words and Trees. The aim of the seminar was to discuss and systematize the recent fast progress in automata theory and to identify important directions for future research. For this, the seminar brought together more than 40 researchers from automata theory and related fields of applications. We had 19 talks of 30 minutes and 5 one-hour lectures leaving ample room for discussions. In the following we describe the topics in more detail.
Im Jahr 2006 brachte Saul Friedländer seine weithin beachtete Gesamtdarstellung „Nazi Germany and the Jews“ mit dem zweiten Band „The Years of Extermination“ zum Abschluss. Das Buch lese sich wie ein Roman, so und ähnlich urteilten Rezensenten über dessen literarische Qualitäten. Auf erzählerische Stärken verweisen auch Kommentare zu Christopher Brownings jüngster Studie „Remembering Survival“ (2010). Das Erzählen in der Geschichtswissenschaft ist seit längerem wieder Gegenstand der Diskussion: Forscherinnen und Forscher auf einem Symposium auf dem Alten Schloss Dornburg bei Jena gingen im Juni 2011 dieser Frage speziell für den Bereich der Holocaust-Historiographie nach.
Proceedings of 4th International Workshop "Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement", July 9-13, 2007, Darmstadt, Germany: The multiplicity fluctuations of hadrons are studied within the statistical hadron-resonance gas model in the large volume limit. The role of quantum statistics and resonance decay effects are discussed. The microscopic correlator method is used to enforce conservation of three charges - baryon number, electric charge, and strangeness - in the canonical ensemble. In addition, in the micro-canonical ensemble energy conservation is included. An analytical method is used to account for resonance decays. The multiplicity distributions and the scaled variances for negatively and positively charged hadrons are calculated for the sets of thermodynamical parameters along the chemical freeze-out line of central Pb+Pb (Au+Au) collisions from SIS to LHC energies. Predictions obtained within different statistical ensembles are compared with the preliminary NA49 experimental results on central Pb+Pb collisions in the SPS energy range. The measured fluctuations are significantly narrower than the Poisson ones and clearly favor expectations for the micro-canonical ensemble. Thus, this is a first observation of the recently predicted suppression of the multiplicity fluctuations in relativistic gases in the thermodynamical limit due to conservation laws.
Arbeitsungsunterlage für die Redaktionsausschußtagung der ENCYCLOPAEDIA CINEMATOGRAPHICA. Göttingen, 5.-9.10.1992. H. Kalkofen, Inst. Wiss. Film. Während die ENCYCLOPAEDIA CINEMATOGRAPHICA nicht verbirgt, daß sie nun 40 Jahre alt geworden ist, kann sie auf die doch nicht ganz unziemliche Frage, wer sie denn überhaupt sei, keine einhellige Antwort geben. Es wird gezeigt, daß die EC im Lauf der Zeit ihres Bestehens verschiedene Selbst-Konzeptionen bekundet hat, die miteinander zum Teil vereinbart werden können, zum Teil aber nicht. Der prinzipielle Gegensatz zwischen dem sich, modelltheoretisch gesehen, durchaus nicht zu Unrecht als "Bewequnqspräparat" begreifenden Kinematogramm und dem die pure Deskription überschreitenden Film, dem es um die Vermittlung von Sinnzusammenhänqen geht, ließ sich nur in den Jahren der Gründungszeit bemanteln und verkennen. Es wird entschieden dafür plädiert, daß sich die ENCYCLOPAEDIA CINEMATOGRAPHICA auf ihre kinematographische Natur zurückbesinnt und sie weiterentwickelt. Andererseits scheint die Gründung eines internationalen Archivs wissenschaftlicher Filme aus mehreren Gründen erforderlich. Dieses Archiv, bei dessen Namensgebung auf das Epitheton /kinematographisch/ der K1arheit halber zu verzichten wäre, und die ENCYCLOPAEDIA CINEMATOGRAPHICA könnten sich, wiewohl eindeutig getrennt, gemeinsamer Infrastrukturen bedienen.
Der wissenschaftliche Film
(1949)
Vortrag gehalten bei der 34. Jahrestagung des Fachverbandes Medien und Technik im Bildungsbereich (MTB) am 25. September 2003 in Göttingen: "Sehr verehrte Damen und Herren, „Video goes online“ ist ganz allgemein etwas, das auch ohne unser Zutun passieren wird. Wie weit und wie schnell es in die praktische Lehre eindringen wird, wage ich angesichts des heutigen Einsatzes sehr viel älterer Medientechnologien im deutschen Hochschulunterricht nicht abzuschätzen. Damit wäre ich eigentlich am Ende meines Vortrags. Dennoch möchte ich sie mit einigen Gedanken konfrontieren, die um die Frage kreisen: Gibt es für einen künftigen, Internet basierten Einsatz hinreichend geeignete Videos und wie müssen die beschaffen sein?.."
On behalf of myself and my colleagues Professor Dr. Klaus Günther and Professor Dr. Lorenz Schulz, it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 25th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) in Frankfurt am Main. ...
The discourses on textuality and literacy that can be observed in the Kyot-Excursus in 'Parcival' by Wolfram von Eschenbach and in the Magnetbergerzählung of the 'Reinfried von Braunschweig' will serve here as examples in an attempt to historicize textual models. My essay will focus on how the limits of textuality could be defines within those 13th-century aristocratic orders of knowledge to which court literature can provide an access. What emerges within this context are concepts and ideas that lie beyond the scope of modern scholarly systems; these narratives indicate a way of dealing with textuality and literacy that, rather than referring to the textual discourse, may remain instead on the phenomenal surface of the material or (as if the textual discourse did not exist) may embody implicitly the circumstances that it signifies.
Die Forschung bediente sich (…) [des Begriffes Schwankroman] im Sinnes eine Gattungsbegriffes, auch wenn sie nicht übersah, daß 'Schwankroman' bei aller Praktikabilität zugleich Ausdruck einer Verlegenheit ist, in welche ursprünglich wohl die ästhetische Norm von der geschlossenen Einheitlichkeit jeder Dichtung, die diesen Namen verdienen soll, geführt hat, einer Verlegenheit nämlich angesichts der offenkundig episodischen Struktur der genannten epischen Großerzählungen, die ihr Zusammengesetztsein aus kurzen, in sich weithin vollständigen Erzähleinheiten kaum je verleugnen. Dieses Dilemma schlägt sich nieder in der Binnenspannung zwischen den beiden Komponenten des Begriffs auf quantitativer, formal-struktureller und kategorialer Ebene: (…)
Was die altgermanistische Fachidentität wo nicht zu gefährden droht, da doch neu zu bestimmen nahe legt, das lässt sich am einfachsten unter jenem gängigen Stichwort 'Kulturwissenschaft' fassen, welches überhaupt in den Programm- und Legitimierungdebatten solcher akademischen Fächer eine zentrale Rolle spielt, die man einmal ohne weiteres die Geisteswissenschaften nannte. Dabei scheint durchaus umstritten zu sein, ob mit 'Kulturwissenschaften' ein Bruch mit den Traditionen der Deutschen Philologie angesagt ist oder im Gegenteil deren neuerliche Stabilisierung.
This paper considers the logic FOcard, i.e., first-order logic with cardinality predicates that can specify the size of a structure modulo some number. We study the expressive power of FOcard on the class of languages of ranked, finite, labelled trees with successor relations. Our first main result characterises the class of FOcard-definable tree languages in terms of algebraic closure properties of the tree languages. As it can be effectively checked whether the language of a given tree automaton satisfies these closure properties, we obtain a decidable characterisation of the class of regular tree languages definable in FOcard. Our second main result considers first-order logic with unary relations, successor relations, and two additional designated symbols < and + that must be interpreted as a linear order and its associated addition. Such a formula is called addition-invariant if, for each fixed interpretation of the unary relations and successor relations, its result is independent of the particular interpretation of < and +. We show that the FOcard-definable tree languages are exactly the regular tree languages definable in addition-invariant first-order logic. Our proof techniques involve tools from algebraic automata theory, reasoning with locality arguments, and the use of logical interpretations. We combine and extend methods developed by Benedikt and Segoufin (ACM ToCL, 2009) and Schweikardt and Segoufin (LICS, 2010).
Japanese is often taken to be strictly head-final in its syntax. In our work on a broad-coverage, precision implemented HPSG for Japanese, we have found that while this is generally true, there are nonetheless a few minor exceptions to the broad trend. In this paper, we describe the grammar engineering project, present the exceptions we have found, and conclude that this kind of phenomenon motivates on the one hand the HPSG type hierarchical approach which allows for the statement of both broad generalizations and exceptions to those generalizations and on the other hand the usefulness of grammar engineering as a means of testing linguistic hypotheses.
We present a broad coverage Japanese grammar written in the HPSG formalism with MRS semantics. The grammar is created for use in real world applications, such that robustness and performance issues play an important role. It is connected to a POS tagging and word segmentation tool. This grammar is being developed in a multilingual context, requiring MRS structures that are easily comparable across languages.
Based on a detailed case study of parallel grammar development distributed across two sites, we review some of the requirements for regression testing in grammar engineering, summarize our approach to systematic competence and performance profiling, and discuss our experience with grammar development for a commercial application. If possible, the workshop presentation will be organized around a software demonstration.
This paper proposes an annotating scheme that encodes honorifics (respectful words). Honorifics are used extensively in Japanese, reflecting the social relationship (e.g. social ranks and age) of the referents. This referential information is vital for resolving zero
pronouns and improving machine translation outputs. Annotating honorifics is a complex task that involves identifying a predicate with honorifics, assigning ranks to referents of the
predicate, calibrating the ranks, and connecting referents with their predicates.
We present an architecture for the integration of shallow and deep NLP components which is aimed at flexible combination of different language technologies for a range of practical current and future applications. In particular, we describe the integration of a high-level HPSG parsing system with different high-performance shallow components, ranging from named entity recognition to chunk parsing and shallow clause recognition. The NLP components enrich a representation of natural language text with layers of new XML meta-information using a single shared data structure, called the text chart. We describe details of the integration methods, and show how information extraction and language checking applications for realworld German text benefit from a deep grammatical analysis.
Hybrid robust deep and shallow semantic processing for creativity support in document production
(2004)
The research performed in the DeepThought project (http://www.project-deepthought.net) aims at demonstrating the potential of deep linguistic processing if added to existing shallow methods that ensure robustness. Classical information retrieval is extended by high precision concept indexing and relation detection. We use this approach to demonstrate the feasibility of three ambitious applications, one of which is a tool for creativity support in document production and collective brainstorming. This application is described in detail in this paper. Common to all three applications, and the basis for their development is a platform for integrated linguistic processing. This platform is based on a generic software architecture that combines multiple NLP components and on robust minimal recursive semantics (RMRS) as a uniform representation language.
In this paper we show an approach to the customization of GermaNet to the German HPSG grammar lexicon developed in the Verbmobil project. GermaNet has a broad coverage of the German base vocabulary and fine-grained semantic classification; while the HPSG grammar lexicon is comparatively small und has a coarse-grained semantic classification. In our approach, we have developed a mapping algorithm to relate the synsets in GermaNet with the semantic sorts in HPSG. The evaluation result shows that this approach is useful for the lexical extension of our deep grammar development to cope with real-world text understanding.
Particles fullfill several distinct central roles in the Japanese language. They can mark arguments as well as adjuncts, can be functional or have semantic functions. There is, however, no straightforward matching from particles to functions, as, e.g., 'ga' can mark the subject, the object or the adjunct of a sentence. Particles can cooccur. Verbal arguments that could be identified by particles can be eliminated in the Japanese sentence. And finally, in spoken language particles are often omitted. A proper treatment of particles is thus necessary to make an analysis of Japanese sentences possible. Our treatment is based on an empirical investigation of 800 dialogues. We set up a type hierarchy of particles motivated by their subcategorizational and modificational behaviour. This type hierarchy is part of the Japanese syntax in VERBMOBIL.
Sprachtechnologie für übersetzungsgerechtes Schreiben am Beispiel Deutsch, Englisch, Japanisch
(2009)
Wir [...] haben uns zur Aufgabe gesetzt, Wege zu finden, wie linguistisch basierte Software den Prozess des Schreibens technischer Dokumentation unterstützen kann. Dabei haben wir einerseits die Schwierigkeiten im Blick, die japanische und deutsche Autoren (und andere Nicht-Muttersprachler des Englischen) beim Schreiben englischer Texte haben. Besonders japanische Autoren haben mit Schwierigkeiten zu kämpfen, weil sie hochkomplexe Ideen in einer Sprache ausdrücken müssen, die von Informationsstandpunkt her sehr unterschiedlich zu ihrer Muttersprache ist. Andererseits untersuchen wir technische Dokumentation, die von Autoren in ihrer Muttersprache geschrieben wird. Obwohl hier die fremdsprachliche Komponente entfällt, ist doch auch erhebliches Verbesserungspotential vorhanden. Das Ziel ist hier, Dokumente verständlich, konsistent und übersetzungsgerecht zu schreiben. Der fundamentale Ansatz in der Entwicklung linguistisch-basierter Software ist, dass gute linguistische Software auf Datenmaterial basiert und sich an den konkreten Zielen der besseren Dokumentation orientiert.
Preferences and defaults for definiteness and number in japanese to german machine translation
(1996)
A significant problem when translating Japanese dialogues into German is the missing information on number and definiteness in the Japanese analysis output. The integration of the search for such information into the transfer process provides an efficient solution. General transfer includes conditions to make it possible to consider external knowledge. Thereby, grammatical and lexical knowledge of the source language, knowledge of lexical restrictions on the target language, domain knowledge and discourse knowledge are accessible.
Die Entwicklung eines individuellen Standards „vom grünen Tisch“ führt selten zu zufriedenstellenden Ergebnissen. Bei der automatischen Prüfung stellt man schnell fest, dass die „ausgedachten“ Regeln einer systematischen Anwendung nicht standhalten. Bei der Implementierung solcher Richtlinien stellt man fest, dass sie oft zu wenig konkret formuliert sind, wie z.B. „formulieren Sie Handlungsanweisungen knapp und präzise“. Wie jedoch kann ein Standard entwickelt werden, der zu einem Unternehmen, seiner Branche und Zielgruppen passt und für die automatische Prüfung implementiert werden kann? Sprachtechnologie hilft effizient bei der Entwicklung individueller Richtlinien. Durch Datenanalyse, Satzcluster und Parametrisierung entsteht ein textspezifischer individueller Standard. Ist damit aber der Gegensatz von Kreativität und Standardisierung aufgehoben?
We present a solution for the representation of Japanese honorifical information in the HPSG framework. Basically, there are three dimensions of honorification. We show that a treatment is necessary that involves both the syntactic and the contextual level of information. The japanese grammar is part of a machine translation system.
The research performed in the DeepThought project aims at demonstrating the potential of deep linguistic processing if combined with shallow methods for robustness. Classical information retrieval is extended by high precision concept indexing and relation detection. On the basis of this approach, the feasibility of three ambitious applications will be demonstrated, namely: precise information extraction for business intelligence; email response management for customer relationship management; creativity support for document production and collective brainstorming. Common to these applications, and the basis for their development is the XML-based, RMRS-enabled core architecture framework that will be described in detail in this paper. The framework is not limited to the applications envisaged in the DeepThought project, but can also be employed e.g. to generate and make use of XML standoff annotation of documents and linguistic corpora, and in general for a wide range of NLP-based applications and research purposes.
In this paper we describe SOBA, a sub-component of the SmartWeb multi-modal dialog system. SOBA is a component for ontologybased information extraction from soccer web pages for automatic population of a knowledge base that can be used for domainspecific question answering. SOBA realizes a tight connection between the ontology, knowledge base and the information extraction component. The originality of SOBA is in the fact that it extracts information from heterogeneous sources such as tabular structures, text and image captions in a semantically integrated way. In particular, it stores extracted information in a knowledge base, and in turn uses the knowledge base to interpret and link newly extracted information with respect to already existing entities.
This demo abstract describes the SmartWeb Ontology-based Information Extraction System (SOBIE). A key feature of SOBIE is that all information is extracted and stored with respect to the SmartWeb ontology. In this way, other components of the systems, which use the same ontology, can access this information in a straightforward way. We will show how information extracted by SOBIE is visualized within its original context, thus enhancing the browsing experience of the end user.
The Deep Linguistic Processing with HPSG Initiative (DELH-IN) provides the infrastructure needed to produce open-source semantic transfer-based machine translation systems. We have made available a prototype Japanese-English machine translation system built from existing resources include parsers, generators, bidirectional grammars and a transfer engine.
While the sortal constraints associated with Japanese numeral classifiers are wellstudied, less attention has been paid to the details of their syntax. We describe an analysis implemented within a broadcoverage HPSG that handles an intricate set of numeral classifier construction types and compositionally relates each to an appropriate semantic representation, using Minimal Recursion Semantics.
Standardisierung ist der bedeutendste Ansatz zu Qualitätssteigerung und Kostensenkung in der Technischen Dokumentation. Es gibt eine Reihe von Standardisierungsansätzen: Modularisierung, Informationsstrukturen, Terminologie, Sprachstrukturen. Dennoch werden diese Ebenen meist getrennt voneinander beschrieben. Wir untersuchen, wie Standardisierungen im Informationsmodell, in der Terminologie und in den sprachlichen Strukturen verknüpft werden und miteinander interagieren.
Der Übersetzungsprozess der Technischen Dokumentation wird zunehmend mit Maschineller Übersetzung (MÜ) unterstützt. Wir blicken zunächst auf die Ausgangstexte und erstellen automatisch prüfbare Regeln, mit denen diese Texte so editiert werden können, dass sie optimale Ergebnisse in der MÜ liefern. Diese Regeln basieren auf Forschungsergebnissen zur Übersetzbarkeit, auf Forschungsergebnissen zu Translation Mismatches in der MÜ und auf Experimenten.
We present an effort for the development of multilingual named entity grammars in a unification-based finite-state formalism (SProUT). Following an extended version of the MUC7 standard, we have developed Named Entity Recognition grammars for German, Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, English, and Czech. The grammars recognize person names, organizations, geographical locations, currency, time and date expressions. Subgrammars and gazetteers are shared as much as possible for the grammars of the different languages. Multilingual corpora from the business domain are used for grammar development and evaluation. The annotation format (named entity and other linguistic information) is described. We present an evaluation tool which provides detailed statistics and diagnostics, allows for partial matching of annotations, and supports user-defined mappings between different annotation and grammar output formats.
Es ist eine alte Debatte. Auf der einen Seite steht die althergebrachte Maxime, alles, was wert ist, gesagt zu werden, müsse in jeder Sprache gesagt werden können - umso mehr dann, wenn es sich um die Wissenschaft handelt, die den Anspruch erhebt, universelle Wahrheiten zu erfassen. Demgegenüber steht ein immer wieder anzutreffender Gedanke, dessen wohl inspirierteste Formulierung von Wilhelm von Humboldt stammt, nämlich, dass die Verschiedenheit der Sprachen nicht nur eine von „Schällen und Zeichen“, sondern eine der „Weltansichten selbst“ sei. Thema dieses Vortrags ist die Frage, wo die Wahrheit zwischen diesen scheinbaren Gegensätzen liegt.
The KADoNiS (Karlsruhe Astrophysical Database of Nucleosynthesis in Stars) project is an online
database (www.kadonis.org) for cross sections relevant to the s-process and the p-process.
The first version was an updated sequel to the previous Bao et al. [1] compilations from 1987
and 2000 for (n; g) cross sections relevant to Big Bang and s-process nucleosynthesis. The first
update, KADoNiS v0.2, was published in 2006 [2]. It contained mainly Maxwellian averaged
(n; g) cross sections relevant to the s-process, and some experimental charged particle induced
reaction relevant to the p-process. After that a second update was presented in 2009 [3].
Recently, we started to collect and review all existing experimental data relevant for p-process
nucleosynthesis and to provide a user-friendly database based on the KADoNiS framework. The
p-process part of the KADoNiS database is currently being extended and will include all available
experimental data from (p; g), (p;n), (p;a), (a,g), (a;n) and (a; p) reactions in or close to the
respective Gamow window.
Most texts that deal with Martin tom Dieck’s black-and-white comic "hundert Ansichten der Speicherstadt" (Zürich: Arrache Cœur, 1997, French title: Vortex) claim that it depicts the eponymous warehouse district (Speicherstadt) in Hamburg. As this paper shows, this claim is inaccurate: although the architecture in tom Dieck’s drawings clearly refers to buildings in the warehouse district, the differences in the details are so obvious, that to speak of a straightforward depiction of the Speicherstadt is oversimplifying. After a brief comparison with Christoph Schäfer’s picture book "Die Stadt ist unsere Fabrik" (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2010), the paper concludes with a discussion of the depiction of urban environments in general and in tom Dieck's book in particular.
Vortrag im Rahmen des Symposiums der Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main in Kooperation mit der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2011 "Economy and Acceptance of Open Access Strategies", am 14.10.2011.
Vortrag im Rahmen des Symposiums der Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main in Kooperation mit der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2011 "Economy and Acceptance of Open Access Strategies", am 14.10.2011.
Vortrag im Rahmen des Symposiums der Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main in Kooperation mit der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2011 "Economy and Acceptance of Open Access Strategies", am 14.10.2011.
Die Antike bildet einen zentralen Bezugspunkt für Identitätskonstruktionen in den europäischen Kulturen. Das Wissen davon, was Antike ist, ist jedoch keineswegs statisch: "Die Antike" formiert sich historisch stets im Wechselspiel mit dem Selbstverständnis der rezipierenden Kulturen. Diese bipolare Konstruktion griff die interdisziplinäre Tagung "Das Geschlecht der Antike" auf, die Anna Heinze (Berlin) und Friederike Krippner (Berlin) im Juni an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin veranstalteten. Sie verfolgte einerseits die Frage, welche Rolle die Kategorie "Geschlecht" bei verschiedenen Epochenentwürfen der Antike spielt, und richtete den Blick andererseits darauf, was die Referenz auf die Antike bei der Konstruktion von Geschlechterverhältnissen in nachantiken Gesellschaften leistet.
The Project European Privacy Open Space (PrivacyOS) aims at bringing together industry, SMEs, Government, Academia and Civil Society to foster development and deployment of privacy infrastructures for Europe. The general objectives of PrivacyOS are to create a longterm collaboration in the thematic network and establish collective interfaces with other EU projects. Participants exchange research and best practices, as well as develop strategies and joint projects following four core policy goals: Awareness-rising, enabling privacy on the Web, fostering privacy-friendly Identity Management, and stipulating research.
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This report focuses on the 3rd PrivacyOS conference, which was held in Vienna, October 26th and 27th 2009, co-located with the Austrian Big Brother Awards. 50 participants attended the conference and devised the agenda with 21 presentations in two parallel tracks. The topics of the presentations discussed included, amongst others: data protection awareness, data protection in healthcare, data protection in the Web 2.0, privacy-related technologies such as EnCoRe, TOR or Microformats as well as regulatory, cultural and sociological implications of data protection. Also at the 3rd PrivacyOS conference the software product “KiwiSecurity” was awarded the EuroPriSe Seal (European Privacy Seal, www.european-privacy-seal.eu). EuroPriSe is an initiative of the data protection authority Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein (ULD), Germany. It has been started as a European Project under the eTEN programme.
The article engages in a close reading of Goethe's sonnet "Mächtiges Überraschen", published in the sonnet cycle of 1807. In it the poetic voice evokes a mountain river whose course is suddenly interrupted by the limiting force of a dam. Paradoxically, however, the effect of this is not stagnation, but the emergence and celebration of a "new life". This paradox will be illuminated by a discussion of Goethe's "Morphologie" as a universal scientific method. Morphology studies the infinite variety of (natural) forms while also insisting on their individual limitation. Goethe's understanding of life lingers on the co-presence of "coined form" and "living development" as he formulates it in "Urworte. Orphisch". "Mächtiges Überraschen" is read as a poem that embodies this fundamental polarity. The sonnet refers time and again to the borders and limitations of both the natural image it evokes and its own poetic properties. Simultaneously, it suggests the transgression of these limitations on both a formal (or structural) and a metaphorical level. As a poetological sonnet, "Mächtiges Überraschen" unifies the representation (of a natural event) with a reflection on representation as such. The announcement of a "new life" in the last stanza of the poem is thus read as an announcement of its own coming-into-being.
"Finnegans Wake" has struck many of its exegetes as the epitome of the postmodern text. The oddity of James Joyce's last work has been and still is a provocation not only for literary criticism and theory but for every reader of the work. It provokes us to reflect on our preconceptions concerning such fundamental issues as reading, meaning and understanding. Due to this very quality, the work has been a fertile intellectual stimulus for an illustrious band of thinkers of the ―post-projects. Its singularity has provoked and facilitated the further development of theoretical frameworks beyond the confines of literary theory proper. This essay will trace the elaborate theoretical responses of Umberto Eco and Jacques Lacan to Joyce's grand literary arcanum. Eco's concept of the openness of modern works of art and Lacan's elaboration of his psychoanalytic concepts of the symptom and of the Borromean knot were inspired by their study of Joyce. As an extreme instance of literariness, Finnegans Wake thus constitutes an ideal opportunity to consider the scope and boundaries of the scholarly study of literary texts more generally.
Die Grenzen und Möglichkeiten der Philologie im Holocaust-Diskurs : das Beispiel Theresienstadt
(2011)
Philology seems to have come to a crossroads. One path leads back to the save haven of established core strengths and competences, the other path promises new perspectives through further expansion into the vastness of cultural studies. If philology is to continue as a discipline relevant to society as a whole, retreat into pure philology — concentrating only on the text itself, adhering to national boundaries — is no viable option. Instead, by opening itself up for the questions and methods of truly interdisciplinary inquiry, philology can emerge in new shape, powerful enough to adequately address issues of interdisciplinary, intercultural and intergenerational importance. This essay will argue for such an extension of philology into cultural studies through an examination of texts, songs and plays written in and about the Terezín ghetto. The songs of Leo Strauß and Manfred Greiffenhagen, the ghetto opera "Der Kaiser von Atlantis" (The Emperor of Atlantis), as well as Roy Kift's play "Camp Comedy" and Frido Mann's parable "Terezín" will exemplify the potential of philology’s conjunction with history, sociology and cultural studies.
The essay raises the question of what it actually means to work with concepts of intermediality in literary studies. It uses as an example a Ph.D project which compares story-telling in literary texts and videographed testimonies by Shoah survivors. It soon becomes clear that that a strictly "intermedial" approach does not fully serve the purpose. Instead, one should try to maintain a literary studies perspective even on other forms of media. To illustrate this, the essay presents an analysis of videographed testimonies using categories taken from literary narratology. It thereby shows the problems as well as the merits of such an approach, at the limits of the discipline.
In response to the question "What is the nature of a philological practice that seeks to establish a spatial relationship between text and reader?" this essay compares the philologist Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's contemporary account of aesthetic experience with the school of Empathy Aesthetics in the late nineteenth century with respect to the manner each emphasizes the spatial qualities of that relationship. Although employing different conceptual repertoires, both assert that the desire of an aesthetic recipient to be in the spatial vicinity of the object and experience the presence of the object with and upon his own body motivates an aesthetic experience, including the work of the philologist. Gumbrecht and the empathy aesthetician Robert Vischer characterize the desire to stand in a spatial relationship to the aesthetic object as the desire to be subsumed thereby, a characterization which entails the negation of the original philological standpoint.
Friedrich August Wolf posits in his "Prolegomena ad Homerum" that, from the time of the first transcription of Homer's epics around 700 BC to the time of the Alexandrian editions, the Iliad and Odyssey underwent repeated revisions by a multitude of poets and critics. According to Wolf, the "unified" works that we know are the products of emendations by Alexandrian critics who attempted to homogenize the style of the epics and to return them to their "original" form. This paper argues that Wolf's narration of the history of these texts relies on and produces aesthetic claims, not historical ones. Wolf determines the dates and origins of passages based on intuitive judgments of style for which he cannot provide linguistic or historical evidence. And his conclusions that the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" were not written by Homer, but rather by a history of emendations and revisions, enthrones his work — the work of philologists — in place of the literary genius Homer. Thus philology becomes for Wolf an aesthetic discipline that produces canonical and beautiful works of literature. This aesthetic task is essential for philology to fulfill its educational and political responsibilities.
Innovation oder Wiederkehr? : Das Methodenspektrum im Kurzzeitgedächtnis der Literaturwissenschaft
(2011)
In recent years, a pronounced methodological self-reflexiveness has been established as a standard in studying language and literature. Methodological pluralism and a specific methodological adaptation to the objects of study are a characteristic feature of present-day literary and cultural studies. In keeping with this tendency, introductory textbooks on literary studies often provide an overview of the broad discussion and spectrum of methods and their seemingly boundless possible applications and the options for combining them. But this is not the first time that the boundaries of our discipline have undergone dissolution. Beginning with early examples of accounts of methodological variety and methodological reflection (Oscar Benda, Harry Maync, Emil Ermatinger, Julius Petersen), the present article discusses the ways in which an awareness of a surprisingly long tradition of discussions concerning methodological competence affects the present self-conception and identity of philology.
Is there something like a 'scientific' approach to the reading or interpretation of literary texts as is suggested by the German term 'Literaturwissenschaft'? This essay argues that genuinely scientific criteria such as the intersubjective verifiability of a given reading do not apply to the reading of literary texts. The reason is that such texts enable a quasi infinite range of different readings the preconceptions of which are contingent upon the individual readers, their previous experiences, literary as well as non-literary, and their expectations. — What, then, are the tasks of a scholarly reading of literary texts? Firstly, the theoretical reflection upon the status of such texts in comparison to pragmatic texts; secondly, the attempt at reconstructing their historical context (in terms of discursive history), and thirdly, a reading with regard to present-day problems. The 'quality' of a scholarly reading of a literary text would thus be dependent not on its 'objectivity', but rather on its capacity to produce resonances amongst other present-day readers, scholarly and non-scholarly.
This paper seeks to demonstrate the ways in which Bachmann's work constitutes a prime case for examining the scope and the boundaries of philological research. It does so by focusing on Bachmann‘s fragmentary and unfinished novel, "Das Buch Franza" [1965-1966], exploring the text and its author in an interdisciplinary light. Forming part of Bachmann's uncompleted "Todesarten"-Projekt, "Das Buch Franza" deals with the continuing legacy of fascism and its displaced forms in the post-war era. In its thematisation of the traumatic and necessarily belated after-effects of the Second World War and the Holocaust, Bachmann‘s text draws on various disciplines and discourses, namely geology, archaeology and psychoanalysis. I consider the ways in which the interdisciplinary ambitions of the text reflect Bachmann‘s struggle for a new form of representation, one that adequately mirrors the concerns of her society. Finally, drawing on Bachmann‘s own theoretical reflections on the field of literary study in her Frankfurt Lectures on poetics, I trace the ways in which the author's work repeatedly encourages us to adopt multiple disciplinary perspectives, as well as privileging literature with a utopian function that exceeds any generic or disciplinary boundaries.
In works of Maghrebi authors like Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), the body is the central medium that generates and constitutes the narration. The authors stand in the tradition of oral folk literature, which increasingly has been displaced by French written literature. Hence there is a tendency in postcolonial Maghrebi texts to reintegrate the performative act of narrating via the body into the literary structures of the novels. This becomes manifest in poly-phonic and poly-perspectival narrative experiments in which, with recourse to the halqa (the typical oral narrative situation), a re-territorialization (Deleuze/Guattari) of the body is performed.
In this context the body in literature plays a central role on the level of the metadiegesis: it is presented as the medium of narration. Using as an example Tahar Ben Jellouns novel L’enfant de sable (1985), the aim of this essay is to show how halqa elements and narrative influences from The Arabian Nights structure the text, which becomes a hybrid between medium and embodiment (Fischer-Lichte) by simulating eventfulness.
On the level of the diegesis, the body plays likewise a decisive role as subject of the storyline, becoming the most important medium for the expression of emotions, thoughts or attitudes. Body language is deliberately utilized by the authors to discuss ways of dealing with traditions, the negotiation of social relations and the (de-)construction of identity. Social order, power structures, hierarchies, existing values and norms are communicated and constituted via body language.
Based on the metaphor of “liminality” in literary studies, this paper examines two different approaches to the literary genre of travelogues, using the example of Adelbert von Chamisso‟s Voyage Around the World (1836). One approach, with the help of autobiographical research, sheds light on the author-specific key motifs of “omnipotent time” and the process of aging. In the second approach, the focus shifts to the relationship between literature and natural science, i.e. to Chamisso‟s transitional position in the context of the historicization and dynamization of the sciences and humanities in the 19th century. Rather than thinking of “philology” and “cultural studies” as opposing methods, this article thus suggests a more in-tercessory position for the purpose of a fruitful study of travel literature.
This paper examines the well-known practice of developing a conceptual frame-work for reading works of literature in such a way as to illuminate previously ignored aspects of those works. It investigates the nature or genre of such discoveries: Are they philological? Hermeneutic? Do they correspond to the discipline of the framework selected? This problem is considered in the case of an example of the deployment of a very specific philosophical framework, namely the problem of skepticism as glossed by the American philosopher Stanley Cavell. This framework brings to light a structural affinity between two seemingly disparate moments in the history of German lyric poetry: the Biedermeier period and the works of Konkrete Dichtung from the mid-twentieth century. The paper postulates this affinity as an exam-ple of the kind of “discovery” whose type, usefulness, or even existence as discovery might be called into question and perhaps not, ultimately, agreed on.
Dieser Band enthält Kurzfassungen der Beiträge zur MKWI 2010. Die Vollversionen der Beiträge sind auf dem wissenschaftlichen Publikationenserver (GoeScholar) der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen und über die Webseite des Universitätsverlags unter http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/univerlag/2010/mkwi/ online verfügbar und in die Literaturnachweissysteme eingebunden.
CONTENTS: Keynote Address and Invited Plenary Lectures Symposia Debates and Panels Oral Presentations and Specific Topics Poster Presentations Workshop Presentations Case Study Presentations and Media Presentations Symposien Workshops
The Göttingen conference Systematics 2008 is the first joint meeting of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS) and the German Botanical Society, section Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (DBG), being the 10th Annual Meeting of the GfBS and the 18th International Symposium Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology of the DBG. The conference programme covers biological systematics in the widest sense and provides ample opportunities for oral and poster presentations on new advances in plant, animal and microbial systematics. This volume brings together the abstracts of invited speaches from the plenary sessions on Progress in Deep Phylogeny, Speciation and Phylogeography, and New Trends in Biological Systematics as well as those of submitted talks and poster sessions.The Göttingen conference Systematics 2008 is the first joint meeting of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBp. and the German Botanical Society, section Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (DBG), being the 10th Annual Meeting of the GfBS and the 18th International Symposium Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology of the DBG. The conference programme covers biological systematics in the widest sense and provides ample opportunities for oral and poster presentations on new advances in plant, animal and microbial systematics. This volume brings together the abstracts of invited speaches from the plenary sessions on Progress in Deep Phylogeny, Speciation and Phylogeography, and New Trends in Biological Systematics as well as those of submitted talks and poster sessions.
Dieser Tagungsband enthält die Beiträge des 17. Workshops „Computational Intelligence“ des Fachausschusses 5.14 der VDI/VDE-Gesellschaft für Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik (GMA) und der Fachgruppe „Fuzzy-Systeme und Soft-Computing“ der Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), der vom 5. – 7. Dezember 2007 im Haus Bommerholz bei Dortmund stattfindet. Der GMA-Fachausschuss 5.14 „Computational Intelligence“ entstand 2005 aus den bisherigen Fachausschüssen „Neuronale Netze und Evolutionäre Algorithmen“ (FA 5.21) sowie „Fuzzy Control“ (FA 5.22). Der Workshop steht in der Tradition der bisherigen Fuzzy-Workshops, hat aber seinen Fokus in den letzten Jahren schrittweise erweitert. Die Schwerpunkte sind Methoden, Anwendungen und Tools für • Fuzzy-Systeme, • Künstliche Neuronale Netze, • Evolutionäre Algorithmen und • Data-Mining-Verfahren sowie der Methodenvergleich anhand von industriellen und Benchmark-Problemen. INHALTSVERZEICHNIS T. Fober, E. Hüllermeier, M. Mernberger (Philipps-Universität Marburg): Evolutionary Construction of Multiple Graph Alignments for the Structural Analysis of Biomolecules G. Heidemann, S. Klenk (Universität Stuttgart): Visual Analytics for Image Retrieval F. Rügheimer (OvG-Universität Magdeburg): A Condensed Representation for Distributions over Set-Valued Attributes T. Mrziglod (Bayer Technology Services GmbH, Leverkusen): Mit datenbasierten Technologien und Versuchsplanung zu erfolgreichen Produkten H. Schulte (Bosch Rexroth AG, Elchingen): Approximationsgenauigkeit und dynamisches Fehlerwachstum der Modellierung mit Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systemen C. Burghart, R. Mikut, T. Asfour, A. Schmid, F. Kraft, O. Schrempf, H. Holzapfel, R. Stiefelhagen, A. Swerdlow, G. Bretthauer, R. Dillmann (Universität Karlsruhe, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH): Kognitive Architekturen für humanoide Roboter: Anforderungen, Überblick und Vergleich R. Mikut, C. Burghart, A. Swerdlow (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Universität Karlsruhe): Ein Gedankenexperiment zum Entwurf einer integrierten kognitiven Architektur für humanoide Roboter G. Milighetti, H.-B. Kuntze (FhG IITB Karlsruhe): Diskret-kontinuierliche Regelung und Überwachung von Robotern basierend auf Aktionsprimitiven und Petri-Netzen N. Rosemann, W. Brockmann (Universität Osnabrück): Kontrolle dynamischer Eigenschaften des Online-Lernens in Neuro-Fuzzy-Systemen mit dem SILKE-Ansatz A. Hans, D. Schneegaß, A. Schäfer, S. Udluft (Siemens AG, TU Ilmenau): Sichere Exploration für Reinforcement-Learning-basierte Regelung Th. Bartz-Beielstein, M. Bongards, C. Claes, W. Konen, H. Westenberger (FH Köln): Datenanalyse und Prozessoptimierung für Kanalnetze und Kläranlagen mit CI-Methoden S. Nusser, C. Otte, W. Hauptmann (Siemens AG, OvG-Universität Magdeburg): Learning Binary Classifiers for Applications in Safety-Related Domains W. Jakob, A. Quinte, K.-U. Stucky, W. Süß, C. Blume (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH; FH Köln, Campus Gummersbach) Schnelles Resource Constrained Project Scheduling mit dem Evolutionären Algorithmus GLEAM M. Preuß, B. Naujoks (Universität Dortmund): Evolutionäre mehrkriterielle Optimierung bei Anwendungen mit nichtzusammenhängenden Pareto-Mengen G. Rudolph, M. Preuß (Universität Dortmund): in mehrkriterielles Evolutionsverfahren zur Bestimmung des Phasengleichgewichts von gemischten Flüssigkeiten Y. Chen, O. Burmeister, C. Bauer, R. Rupp, R. Mikut (Universität Karlsruhe, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Orthopädische Universitätsklinik Heidelberg): First Steps to Future Applications of Spinal Neural Circuit Models in Neuroprostheses and Humanoid Robots F. Hoffmann, J. Braun, T. Bertram, S. Hölemann (Universität Dortmund, RWTH Aachen): Multikriterielle Optimierung mit modellgestützten Evolutionsstrategien S. Piana, S. Engell (Universität Dortmund): Evolutionäre Optimierung des Betriebs von rohrlosen Chemieanlagen T. Runkler (Siemens AG, CT IC 4): Pareto Optimization of the Fuzzy c–Means Clustering Model Using a Multi–Objective Genetic Algorithm H. J. Rommelfanger (J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Die Optimierung von Fuzzy-Zielfunktionen in Fuzzy (Mehrziel-) LPSystemen - Ein kritischer Überblick D. Gamrad, D. Söffker (Universität Duisburg-Essen): Formalisierung menschlicher Interaktionen durch Situations-Operator- Modellbildung S. Ritter, P. Bretschneider (FhG AST Ilmenau): Optimale Planung und Betriebsführung der Energieversorgung im liberalisierten Energiemarkt R. Seising (Medizinische Universität Wien): Heinrich Hertz, Ludwig Wittgenstein und die Fuzzy-Strukturen - Eine kleine „Bildergeschichte“ zur Erkenntnisphilosophie J. Limberg, R. Seising (Medizinische Universität Wien): Sequenzvergleiche im Fuzzy-Hypercube M. Steinbrecher, R. Kruse (OvG-Universität Magdeburg): Visualisierung temporaler Abhängigkeiten in Bayesschen Netzen M. Schneider, R. Tillmann, U. Lehmann, J. Krone, P. Langbein, U. Stark, J. Schrickel, Ch. Ament, P. Otto (FH Südwestfalen, Airbus Deutschland GmbH, Hamburg, TU Ilmenau): Künstliches Neuronales Netz zur Analyse der Geometrie von großflächig gekrümmten Bauteilen C. Frey (FhG IITB Karlsruhe): Prozessdiagnose und Monitoring feldbusbasierter Automatisierungsanlagen mittels selbstorganisierender Karten
TRENTOOL : an open source toolbox to estimate neural directed interactions with transfer entropy
(2011)
To investigate directed interactions in neural networks we often use Norbert Wiener's famous definition of observational causality. Wiener’s definition states that an improvement of the prediction of the future of a time series X from its own past by the incorporation of information from the past of a second time series Y is seen as an indication of a causal interaction from Y to X. Early implementations of Wiener's principle – such as Granger causality – modelled interacting systems by linear autoregressive processes and the interactions themselves were also assumed to be linear. However, in complex systems – such as the brain – nonlinear behaviour of its parts and nonlinear interactions between them have to be expected. In fact nonlinear power-to-power or phase-to-power interactions between frequencies are reported frequently. To cover all types of non-linear interactions in the brain, and thereby to fully chart the neural networks of interest, it is useful to implement Wiener's principle in a way that is free of a model of the interaction [1]. Indeed, it is possible to reformulate Wiener's principle based on information theoretic quantities to obtain the desired model-freeness. The resulting measure was originally formulated by Schreiber [2] and termed transfer entropy (TE). Shortly after its publication transfer entropy found applications to neurophysiological data. With the introduction of new, data efficient estimators (e.g. [3]) TE has experienced a rapid surge of interest (e.g. [4]). Applications of TE in neuroscience range from recordings in cultured neuronal populations to functional magnetic resonanace imaging (fMRI) signals. Despite widespread interest in TE, no publicly available toolbox exists that guides the user through the difficulties of this powerful technique. TRENTOOL (the TRansfer ENtropy TOOLbox) fills this gap for the neurosciences by bundling data efficient estimation algorithms with the necessary parameter estimation routines and nonparametric statistical testing procedures for comparison to surrogate data or between experimental conditions. TRENTOOL is an open source MATLAB toolbox based on the Fieldtrip data format. ...
Der (...) Beitrag setzt sich strukturell auf drei Ebenen mit Rolf Hochhuths Dramenpoetik auseinander. Erstens wird die gegenläufige Beziehung zwischen ihrem historisch-adäquaten Gestaltungsanspruch und ihrer literarisch-symbolhaften Überformung analysiert. Zweitens wird Hochhuths Verhältnis zu den für ihn poetologisch bedeutsamen Vorgängern Lessing und Schiller untersucht. Drittens geht es um die Frage, welche Konsequenzen sich aus der in den »Guerillas« formulierten Darstellungsabsicht ziehen lassen, der realen Wirklichkeit durch die Projektion einen neuen (literarischen) Wirklichkeit entgegenzutreten.
The focus of the discussion at the conference on September 23, 2004 was on the long-term impact on capital markets and pension systems. The speakers tried to identify the direction and magnitude of potential changes as well as the likelihood of an eventual asset meltdown. The conference's objective was to combine insights from academia with those from the financial community in order to provide a more comprehensive outlook on capital market developments. Conference Reader Nr. 2005/01
Over the past two decades the “one drug – one target – one disease” concept became the prevalent paradigm in drug discovery. The main idea of this approach is the identification of a single protein target whose inhibition leads to a successful treatment of the examined disease. The predominant assumption is that highly selective ligands would avoid unwanted side effects caused by binding to secondary non-therapeutic targets. In recent years the results of post-genomic and network biology showed that proteins rarely act in isolated systems but rather as a part of a highly connected network [1]. In addition this connectivity leads to more robust systems that cannot be interfered by the inhibition of a single target of that network and consequently might not lead to the desired therapeutic effect [2]. Furthermore studies prove that robust systems are rather affected by weak inhibitions of several parts than by a complete inhibition of a single selected element of that system [3]. Therefore there is an increasing interest in developing drugs that take effect on multiple targets simultaneously but is concurrently a great challenge for medicinal chemists. There has to be a sufficient activity on each target as well as an adequate pharmacokinetic profile [4]. Early design strategies tried to link the pharmacophors of known inhibitors, however these methods often lead to high molecular weight and low ligand efficacy. We present a new rational approach based on a retrosynthetic combinatorial analysis procedure [5] on approved ligands of multiple targets. These RECAP fragments are used to design a large combinatorial library containing molecules featuring chemical properties of each ligand class. The molecules are further validated by machine learning models, like random forests and self-organizing maps, regarding their activity on the targets of interest.
Goethe und Schiller als "klassische Autoren" zu bezeichnen, wie im Titel dieses Vortrags geschehen, ist durchaus nicht selbstverständlich. Ebenso wie ihre Reklamation als "Nationalautoren" gehört ihre Einreihung unter die Klassiker der Wirkungsgeschichte ihres Werkes, und zwar speziell der deutschen Rezeption an. In England werden Goethe und Schiller unter die Romantiker gezählt, in Frankreich wird nahezu ausschließlich die mehr als hundert Jahre frühere französische Literatur von Corneille (1606-1684) bis Racine (1639-1699) als "klassisch" bezeichnet. [...] Der Begriff des "Klassischen" schwankt durch diese Rückbindung an die Antike zwischen stiltypologischer und historischer Bedeutung, d.h. zwischen der Bezeichnung mustergültiger und harmonisch proportionierter Literatur einerseits, und dem Bezug auf die griechische und römische Antike andererseits. Darin liegt das Problem jeder nachantiken Klassik, die sich zwar von den antiken Vorbildern lösen will, um selbst mustergültig werden zu können, zugleich aber an den antiken Autoren gemessen wird. Goethe selbst hat in seinem Aufsatz "literarischer Sansculottismus" während der Hochphase der "Weimarer Klassik" (1795) die Ansicht vertreten, in Deutschland seien die Voraussetzungen nicht gegeben, unter denen klassische Autoren entstehen könnten.
[Erhard Schütz skizziert vier Phasen:] 1. Das Doppel von sozialdemokratischer Selbstbildproduktion und bildungsbürgerlicher Einhegungsbeschwörung (ca. 1850–1917) 2. Das Doppel von Hegemonial-Konkurrenz in der Arbeiterbewegung und neusachlicher Funktionalitätsfaszination (ca. 1917–1933) 3. Das Doppel von Produktionsverherrlichung als politischer Systemfeier und industriepopularisierender Sachliteratur (ca. 1933–1961) 4. Das Doppel von industrieweltlichem Sozialrealismus und politischer Systemagitation. (ca. 1961–1987) Arbeiterliteratur im engeren Sinne fundiert sich zunächst entscheidend in einer vom Industrieproletariat ausgehenden, gesellschaftlichen Zukunftsperspektive. Sie ist in diesem strikteren Sinne Teil von Arbeiterkultur. Arbeiterkultur war – zugespitzt – geprägt durch Arbeitsplatz, Familie und Verein. Als solches ist sie natürlich auch Gegenstand von Arbeiterliteratur gewesen. Aber Arbeiterliteratur ist darüber hinaus durch die Arbeiterkultur formbestimmt. Sie ist in diesem Sinne weder ein Ausdruck der sozialen Lage der Arbeiter noch der Reflex eines Klassenbewußtseins. Ihre Spezifik besteht zunächst vielmehr darin, den, wie Klaus-Michael Bogdal es ausdrückt, "Prozeß der Subjektkonstituierung der Arbeiter" zu verstärken und zu sichern, "indem sie einen wirksamen Code der Ich-Rede zur Verfügung stellt". Arbeiter-Schriftsteller bedienten sich mit der Literatur eines Bereichs, der traditionell als besonders intensi-ver und höchster Ausdruck von Subjektivität galt, um darin ein "kollektives Arbeiter-Subjekt" zu imaginieren. Oder anders gesagt: In der historischen Arbeiterliteratur konstituierte sich in Literatur, im Medium emphatischer Subjektivität, ein Schreiben in transindividuell-sozietärer Perspektive. Das prägt vor allem die frühe Phase der Arbeiterliteratur im 19. Jahrhundert.
The multiplicity fluctuations in A+A collisions at SPS and RHIC energies are studied within the HSD transport approach. We find a dominant role of the fluctuations in the nucleon participant number for the final fluctuations. In order to extract physical fluctuations one should decrease the fluctuations in the participants number. This can be done considering very central collisions. The system size dependence of the multiplicity fluctuations in central A+A collisions at the SPS energy range – obtained in the HSD and UrQMD transport models – is presented. The results can be used as a ‘background’ for experimental measurements of fluctuations as a signal of the critical point. Event-by-event fluctuations of the K/p , K/p and p/p ratios in A+A collisions are also studied. Event-by-event fluctuations of the kaon to pion number ratio in nucleus-nucleus collisions are studied for SPS and RHIC energies. We find that the HSD model can qualitatively reproduce the measured excitation function for the K/p ratio fluctuations in central Au+Au (or Pb+Pb) collisions from low SPS up to top RHIC energies. The forward-backward correlation coefficient measured by the STAR Collaboration in Au+Au collisions at RHIC is also studied. We discuss the effects of initial collision geometry and centrality bin definition on correlations in nucleus-nucleus collisions. We argue that a study of the dependence of correlations on the centrality bin definition as well as the bin size may distinguish between these ‘trivial’ correlations and correlations arising from ‘new physics’. 5th International Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement - CPOD 2009, June 08 - 12 2009 Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York, USA
Using faculty-librarian partnerships to ensure that students become information fluent in the 21st century In the 21st century educators in partnership with librarians must prepare students effectively for productive use of information especially in higher education. Students will need to graduate from universities with appropriate information and technology skills to enable them to become productive citizens in the workplace and in society. Technology is having a major impact on society; in economics e-business is moving to the forefront; in communication e-mail, the Internet and cellular telephones have reformed how people communicate; in the work environment computers and web utilizations are emphasized and in education virtual learning and teaching are becoming more important. These few examples indicate how the 21st century information environment requires future members of the workforce to be information fluent so they will have the ability to locate information efficiently, evaluate information for specific needs, organize information to address issues, apply information skillfully to solve problems, use information to communicate effectively, and use information responsibly to ensure a productive work environment. Individuals can achieve information fluency by acquiring cultural, visual, computer, technology, research and information management skills to enable them to think critically.
Teaching information literacy: substance and process This presentation explores the concept of information literacy within the broader context of higher education. It argues that, certain assertions in the library literature notwithstanding, the concepts associated with information literacy are not new, but rather very closely resemble the qualities traditionally considered to characterize a well-educated person. The presentation also considers the extent to which the higher education system does indeed foster the attributes commonly associated with information literacy. The term information literacy has achieved the immediacy it currently enjoys within the library community with the advent of the so-called "information age" The information age is commonly touted in the literature, both popular and professional, as constituting nothing short of a revolution. Academic librarians and other educators have of course felt called upon to make their teaching reflect both the growing proliferation of information formats and the major transformations affecting the process of information seeking. Faced with so much novelty and uncertainty, it is no surprise that many have felt that these changes call for a revolution in teaching. It is within this context that the concept of information literacy has flourished. It is argued in this presentation, however, that by treating information literacy as an essentially new specialty that owes much of its importance to the plethora of electronic information, we risk obscuring some of the most fundamental and enduring educational values we should be imparting to our students. Much of the literature on information literacy assumes - rather than argues - that recent changes in the way we approach education are indications of progress. Indeed, much of the self-narrative that institutions produce (in bulletins, mission statements, web sites, etc.) endorses an approach to education that will result in lifelong learners who are critical consumers of information. After critically examining the degree to which such statements of educational approach reflect reality, this presentation concludes by considering the effects of certain changes in the culture of higher education. It considers particularly the transformation - at least in North America - of the traditional model of higher education as a public good to a market-driven business model. It poses the question of whether a change of this significance might in fact detract from, rather than promote, the development of information literate students.
Im Rahmen dieses Vortrages, anlässlich von Herders 200. Todesjahr und der Buchveröffentlichung gleichnamigen Titels, soll nicht die Vita von Johann Gottfried Herder nachgezeichnet werden, vielmehr sollen einige resümierende Gedanken Michael Zarembas jahrzehntelanger Beschäftigung mit Leben und Werk des Predigers der Humanität vorgetragen werden.
Typologisches Denken gerät im 17. Jahrhundert in Unordnung, wenn die Figuren des Barock, wie der Simplicissimus, nicht (länger) das erfüllen, was sie versprechen und zugleich andere Aspekte des Figurenbegriffs an Bedeutung gewinnen. An diesem Punkt setzte die Tagung „Barocke Figuren. Zeit – Gestalt – Medien“ (27.-29. Oktober 2010, Universität Konstanz) an. Sie untersuchte eben jene (atypischen) Figuren, die sich gegen eine strenge Typologisierung sperren, deren Umwege, Metamorphosen, Begegnungen und Konflikte es aber erlauben, die Frage, was im Barock eine Figur ausmacht, in begrifflich-analytischer Perspektive neu zu stellen.
To investigate the formation and the propagation of relativistic shock waves in viscous gluon matter we solve the relativistic Riemann problem using a microscopic parton cascade. We demonstrate the transition from ideal to viscous shock waves by varying the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio n/s. Furthermore we compare our results with those obtained by solving the relativistic causal dissipative fluid equations of Israel and Stewart (IS), in order to show the validity of the IS hydrodynamics. Employing the parton cascade we also investigate the formation of Mach shocks induced by a high-energy gluon traversing viscous gluon matter. For n/s = 0.08 a Mach cone structure is observed, whereas the signal smears out for n/s >=0.32.