Ancient Chinese texts present an area of enormous challenge and opportunity for humanities scholars interested in exploiting computational methods to assist in the development of new insights and interpretations of culturally significant materials. In this paper we describe a collaborative effort between Indiana University and Xi’an Jiaotong University to support exploration and interpretation ...

Image-text retrieval plays a central role in bridging vision and language, which aims to reduce the semantic discrepancy between images texts. Most of existing works rely on refined words objects representation through data-oriented method capture word-object cooccurrence. Such approaches are prone ignore asymmetric action relation texts, that is, text has explicit (i.e., verb phrase) while ima...

Free access to full-text scientific papers in major digital libraries and other web repositories is limited to only their abstracts consisting of no more than several dozens of words. Current keyword-based techniques allow for clustering such type of short texts only when the data set is multi-category, e.g., some documents are devoted to sport, others to medicine, others to politics, etc. Howe...

Fine-grained named entity classi cation or FG-NEC refers to the process of classifying a set of named entities from naturally occurring texts to the maximum granularity. It is essentially di erent from the traditional coarse-grained NEC (PER, LOC, ORG) in that it requires deep semantic analysis and the FG semantic classes are highly ambiguous. While research has been conducted in an application...

Students at universities and colleges in Belgium as well as abroad often experience difficulties with writing (academic) texts in their native language. Several needs analyses have pointed out that the most frequent writing problems in Dutch are text structure and cohesion, academic style and, to a lesser extent, spelling. Despite many interventions such as extra writing classes or workshops, t...

Most members of the Jehovah's Witness community refuse blood transfusions, and there are variations in what alternatives they will accept depending on their personal decisions. To provide culturally competent care, healthcare providers need to be knowledgeable about substitutions for blood administration as well as the risks and benefits of available alternatives so that they can inform their p...

AIM The aim of this paper is to highlight the need to integrate cultural care into dental hygiene practice. BACKGROUND Culture can be better understood through the concepts, beliefs, and norms of the culturally diverse population of the United States. It is important to understand cultural perceptions of oral health in order to manage transcultural barriers that may arise during the utilizati...

This study was carried out to compare Iranian college students’ rate of incidental vocabulary learning when reading texts for different purposes (specific vs. general) and in different conditions (marked vs. unmarked) using Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) . The hypertext software programme which was used in this study is characterized with prominent capabilities such as presenting th...

This paper proposes a taxonomy to develop culturally competent practitioners. Arguments about what this might mean and how this could be achieved are discussed first, identifying problems with multicultural and antiracist approaches. The model follows the cognitive, emotional and behavioural levels of Steinaker and Bell's experiential taxonomy. Five elements are proposed: cultural awareness, cu...