We describe our systems for the SemEval 2014 Task 5: L2 writing assistant where a system has to find appropriate translations of L1 segments in a given L2 context. We participated in three out of four possible language pairs (English-Spanish, FrenchEnglish and Dutch-English) and achieved the best performance for all our submitted systems according to word-based accuracy. Our models are based on...

Cognate facilitation and false cognate inhibition effects have been tested in various language pairs with different experimental tasks participant profiles so far. However, studies focusing on the recognition or production of (false) cognates are nearly absent for Turkish-English despite prevalence these words. Thus, using a backward lexical translation task (from L2 to L1), this study aimed in...

  Objective(s): To investigate the expression of human papilloma virus (HPV) L1 capsid protein, and human telomerase RNA component (hTERC) in cervical cancer and the role of detection of both genes in screening of cervical cancer.   Materials and Methods: A total of 309 patients were recruited and cervical exfoliated cells were collected. Immunocytochemistry was employed to detect HPV L1 capsid...

Background: L1 retrotransposons are the most active mobile DNA elements in human genome. Unregulated L1 retrotransposition may have deleterious effect by disrupting vital genes and inducing genomic instabilities. Therefore, human cells control L1 elements by silencing their activities through epigenetic mechanisms. It has been shown that cell division and heavy metals stimulate the frequency of...

Twenty-eight native-English speakers enrolled in beginning and intermediate university Spanish courses participated in a mixed language semantic categorization task in which critical words were presented in English (L1) and Spanish (L2) and repetitions of these words (within- and between-languages) were presented on subsequent trials (i.e., immediate repetition). Event-related potentials were r...

With the increasing use of technology in classrooms, computer assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) is becoming a vital tool in language learning. In this paper, we present a system that takes advantage of data from learners of a specific L1 to better model phonological errors at various levels in the system. At the lexical level, a statistical machine translation approach is used to model com...

Nutrient availability profoundly influences gene expression. Many animal genes encode multiple transcript isoforms, yet the effect of nutrient availability on transcript isoform expression has not been studied in genome-wide fashion. When Caenorhabditis elegans larvae hatch without food, they arrest development in the first larval stage (L1 arrest). Starved larvae can survive L1 arrest for week...

As the volume of data processed by applications has increased, considerable attention been paid to address translation overheads, leading widespread use larger page sizes (“superpages”) and multi-level lookaside buffers (TLBs). However, far less instruction its relation TLB pipeline structure. In prior work, we quantified impact using code superpages on a variety widely used applications, rangi...