Sentence and word alignment are prerequisite tasks for any system concerning statistical machine translation. Although they seem very different, both sentence and word alignments require approximately the same features to discriminate between positive and negative examples of alignments. We present a solution that can align the sentences and the words of a parallel corpus using support vector m...

BACKGROUND Aphasia is a language disorder caused by left hemisphere damage. For treatment of aphasia, in some of therapeutic approaches, the right hemisphere (RH) abilities, such as, emotional perception, is used for stimulation of the language process in the left hemisphere. The aim of this study is to investigate emotional word repetition in aphasia after a stroke, in Persian language patient...

Affective concepts can be described in terms of space, which is known as the valence-space metaphor. Previous studies have not investigated either the specifics of this metaphor on the transverse and vertical axes or the time course of this metaphoric association. With Chinese participants, we used a spatial cue task to study the valence-space metaphor on the transverse (left-and-right; Experim...

If u and v are words, uv denotes their concatenation. For a positive integer n, u = uuu...u (n times). By ǫ we denote the only word of length 0, the empty word. A is the set of all words over A of length n. A = ∪n≥1A n is a free semigroup (an associative set with a binary operation) over A with the group operation being string concatenation. We define A = A ∪ {ǫ}. Definition 1.2. A word u is a ...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from subjects as they silently read 160 different seven-word sentences, presented one word at a time. Each sentence was in itself a natural, meaningful phrase. Substantial intersubject variability was observed in the ERP waveshapes following the words. More than half of the subjects generated P3 components to word stimuli, but those who did showed s...

We investigate the possibility of exploiting character-based dependency for Chinese information processing. As Chinese text is made up of character sequences rather than word sequences, word in Chinese is not so natural a concept as in English, nor is word easy to be defined without argument for such a language. Therefore we propose a character-level dependency scheme to represent primary lingu...

Previous recruitment studies have treated potential applicants as individual decision makers, neglecting informational social influences on organizational attractiveness. The present study investigated if and under what conditions word-of-mouth communication matters as a recruitment source. Results (N = 171) indicated that word of mouth had a strong impact on organizational attractiveness, and ...

Most previous recruitment studies have treated potential applicants as individual decisionmakers, neglecting informational social influences on organizational attractiveness. Therefore, the present study investigated if and under which conditions word-of-mouth communication matters as a recruitment source. Results (N = 171) indicated that word-ofmouth had a strong impact on organizational attra...

Four experiments were performed to explore a recognition decrement that is associated with the recognition of a word from a short list. The stimulus material for demonstrating the phenomenon was a list of words of different syntactic types. A word from the list was recognized less well following a decision that a word of the same type had occurred in the list than following a decision that such...