Query expansion by pseudo-relevance feedback is a well-established technique in both monoand crosslingual information retrieval, enriching and disambiguating the typically terse queries provided by searchers. Comparable document-side expansion is a relatively more recent development motivated by error-prone transcription and translation processes in spoken document and cross-language retrieval....

  In this article the possible effects of the translation technologies on the critical thinking and translation ability of the students of the Translation Studies would be studied through a pre-experimental method of research. The participants of this research were thirty one Iranian senior Translation Studies students at the age group of 20-26 who were selected based on their age, educational...

Objectives: Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) is the common scale for clinical and functional evaluation of sensorimotor conditions and related Upper Extremity (UE) dysfunction after stroke. This study was done to translate and cross-culturally adjust the original upper extremity FMA (FMA-UE) into Persian and to evaluate the psychometric properties of the translated version.  Methods: A procedure of...

background china is a country with a high prevalence of hepatitis b. as a special population, migrant workers are more vulnerable to hepatitis b. objectives the present study was conducted to gain insight into the prevalence of hepatitis b and knowledge about hepatitis b among migrant workers in shandong province, china, as well as to explore a series of strategies for preventing and controllin...

the corporate sector all over the world is restructuring its operations through different types  of  consolidation  strategies  like  mergers  and  acquisitions  in  order  to  face challenges  posed  by  the  new  pattern  of  globalization,  which  has  led  to  the  greater integration of national and international markets.. the intensity of cross-border operations recorded an unprecedented ...

Cross language retrieval systems use queries in one natural language to guide retrieval of documents that might be written in an other Acquisition and representation of translation knowledge plays a central role in this process This paper explores the utility of two sources of translation knowledge for cross language retrieval We have imple mented six query translation techniques that use bilin...