Human linguistic annotation is crucial for many natural language processing tasks but can be expensive and time-consuming. We explore the use of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk system, a significantly cheaper and faster method for collecting annotations from a broad base of paid non-expert contributors over the Web. We investigate five tasks: affect recognition, word similarity, recognizing textual en...

Abstract This study adopts a corpus-assisted approach to explore the translation strategies that Netflix subtitlers opted for in rendering 1564 English swear words into Arabic. It uses 699,229-word English-Arabic parallel corpus consisting of transcriptions forty movies, drama, action, science fiction (sci-fi), and biography their Arabic subtitles. Using wordlist tool SketchEngine, researchers ...

This paper investigates a dynamic model of strategic communication between a principal and an expert with con‡icting preferences. In each stage, the uninformed principal can select the precision of expert’s information about an unknown state without observing the information itself. We show that the principal can elicit perfect information from the expert about the state and achieve the …rst-be...

BACKGROUND Overtreatment of catheter-associated bacteriuria is a quality and safety problem, despite the availability of evidence-based guidelines. Little is known about how guidelines-based knowledge is integrated into clinicians' mental models for diagnosing catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CA-UTI). The objectives of this research were to better understand clinicians' mental model...

The present article shows that all scientific texts included in journals, magazines, and newspapers are vulnerable to the penetration of hedges and boosters.  However, it was found that scientific texts in the three corpora tended to open up the possibilities of alternative voices rather than narrowing them down. The relatively higher frequency of occurrence of hedges in comparison with booster...

The McGurk illusory percept is obtained by dubbing an incongruent articulatory movement onto an auditory signal. The Mismatch Negativity (MMN) of the auditory Event-Related Potential (ERP) reflects the detection of a deviant stimulus within auditory short-term memory (STM) and besides an acoustic component, possesses, under certain conditions, a phonetic one. The present study assessed the exis...

Social media-based expert blogs are a crucial and credible online information source for consumers, yet little is known about the role of expert blogs for general consumer brand perceptions that bestow long-term value for the firm. On the basis of a novel dataset with 7,871 brand-day observations of over 131,000 expert blogs on major brands in the PC industry, this study reveals how expert blog...