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A Stylistic Analysis of Lexicon in Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is a futuristic, science fiction novel that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans, projecting the United States’ colonial and immigrant past on to a symbolic future. Bradbury’s use of language is mostly picturesque and sensory. The present paper applies a text-oriented analysis of stylistic elements that construct meaning in the text and evoke the n...

A new model for persian multi-part words edition based on statistical machine translation

Multi-part words in English language are hyphenated and hyphen is used to separate different parts. Persian language consists of multi-part words as well. Based on Persian morphology, half-space character is needed to separate parts of multi-part words where in many cases people incorrectly use space character instead of half-space character. This common incorrectly use of space leads to some s...

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Code-Copying in the Balochi Language of Sistan

This empirical study deals with language contact phenomena in Sistan. Code-copying is viewed as a strategy of linguistic behavior when a dominated language acquires new elements in lexicon, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatic organization, etc., which can be interpreted as copies of a dominating language. In this framework Persian is regarded as the model code which provides elements for b...

Estimating Word Translation Probabilities from Unrelated Monolingual Corpora Using the EM Algorithm

Selecting the right word translation among several op tions in the lexicon is a core problem for machine trans lation We present a novel approach to this problem that can be trained using only unrelated monolingual corpora and a lexicon By estimating word translation probabilities using the EM algorithm we extend upon target language modeling We construct a word trans lation model for German an...