As he and his colleagues report in Physical Review Letters, they first tested it with ten texts apiece from ten official languages of the European Union.

ECONOMIST: Computers and language

Europe's patent system is also in a mess in another regard: the quilt of national patent offices and languages means that the cost of obtaining a patent for the entire European Union is too high, a burden in particular on smaller firms and individual inventors.

ECONOMIST: Intellectual property

These are: inland waterways, the promotion of the Irish and Ulster Scots languages, food safety, aquaculture and marine matters, trade and business development and special European Union programmes.

BBC: Paisley: Embryo all-Ireland government

They will implement all-island laws on inland waterways, the promotion of the Irish and Ulster Scots languages, food safety, aquaculture and marine matters, trade and business development and special European Union programmes.

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