This paper reports on a comparative case study of the multilingual practices eight secondary teachers English from across India, all identified as experts their contexts using multiple criteria. Both qualitative and quantitative data classroom observations, interviews other sources were collected, analysed compared cases. It finds that, while there was noticeable variation among participants, e...

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We have measured the NaCl or KCl currents under voltage clamp across the dorsal lingual epithelium of the rat and simultaneously the response of the taste nerves. Under short-circuit conditions a NaCl stimulus evoked an inward current (first current) that coincided with excitation of the chorda tympani. This was followed by a slower inward current (second current) that matched the kinetics of t...

This paper describes our initial implementation of a system to provide world-wide weather information over the telephone. The information is gathered from several different sites on the Web, preprocessed, and cached locally into a relational database to make access both fast and selective. Our natural language tools, originally developed for processing user queries, are used here for understand...

The TAP-XL Automated Analyst’s Assistant is an application designed to help an Englishspeaking analyst write a topical report, culling information from a large inflow of multilingual, multimedia data. It gives users the ability to spend their time finding more data relevant to their task, and gives them translingual reach into other languages by leveraging human language technology. 1 System De...

The University of Maryland participated in the TDT topic tracking task This chapter describes the system architec ture including source dependent normalization and then fo cuses on the cross language case in which English training stories were used to nd Mandarin stories on the same topic Processes that may introduce noise including errorful trans lation and transcription are described and ve t...

Identifying translations from comparable corpora is a wellknown problem with several applications, e.g. dictionary creation in resource-scarce languages. Scarcity of high quality corpora, especially in Indian languages, makes this problem hard, e.g. state-of-the-art techniques achieve a mean reciprocal rank (MRR) of 0.66 for English-Italian, and a mere 0.187 for Telugu-Kannada. There exist comp...

Superior early numerical competencies of children in several Asian countries have (amongst others) been attributed to the higher transparency of their number word systems. Here, we directly investigated this claim by evaluating whether Japanese children's transcoding performance when writing numbers to dictation (e.g., "twenty five" → 25) was less error prone than that of German-speaking childr...