We improved the compositional term translation method by using comparable corpora. A bilingual lexicon consisting of pairs of word sequences within terms and their correlations is derived from a bilingual document-aligned corpus. Then, for an input term, compositional translations are produced together with their confidence scores by consulting the corpus-derived bilingual lexicon. Thus, we can...

Infants learning words in a bilingual language environment face a number of difficulties that may alter the number and kinds of words learned early in life. The research described here investigates several aspects of word learning that may differ between bilinguals and monolinguals. Using a dataset of 353 infants between the ages of 6 months and 7 years old, approximately half of which are bili...

AIMS To describe and compare the extent of exposure among youth and adults to antitobacco advertising funded by tobacco control agencies, and to smoking-related advertising from tobacco and pharmaceutical companies. DESIGN Archival records of television advertising exposures from Nielsen Media Research for the largest 75 media markets in the United States from 1999 to 2003. MEASUREMENTS Mea...

The technological transformation and automation of digital content delivery has revolutionized the advertising industry. Increased reliance on automation has also led to requirements for standardization of advertising formats. This paper examines how the memorability of banner advertising changed with the introduction of new standards regularizing the size of display advertising. Using data fro...

I examine how the increasing ability of firms to target their advertisements to particular individuals influences market outcomes when consumers have access to advertising avoidance tools. Today firms possess an unprecedented and rapidly improving ability to discover details about individuals and reach them with advertising based on this information. For instance, as many readers know, an indiv...

The digital revolution has often been heralded for the transformation it has produced in advertising. The ability to collect data about the individual, automatically parse it, and then serve ads on that basis has transformed advertisers’ ability to target ads and show specific ads to specific groups of consumers. This targeting revolution has led to the emergence of paid search advertising, whe...

The evolution of mobile devices arising from the explosive dissemination of Smart phones is widely changing life as we know it. In particular, mobile advertising is facing great changes in dealing with Smart devices. However, the basic outline of mobile advertising still mostly resembles advertising strategies centered on feature phones. Despite the fact that Smart device-based mobile advertisi...

The objectives of this study is to investigate the impact of culture on advertising appeals in mobile phone industry via social media channel in UK, Brazil and India. Content analysis on Samsung and Nokia commercials in YouTube is conducted. The result indicates that the advertising appeals are both congruent and incongruent with cultural dimensions in UK, Brazil and India. The result suggests ...