This paper describes a system for morphological tagging and gloss-ing of Sesotho, a southern Bantu language. Sesotho has a rich agglu-tinative morphology, and morphemes cannot be disambiguated on the basis of the bigram or trigram statistics that work so well for languages like English. Our system estimates a simple PCFG for Sesotho clauses from a small hand-annotated corpus in an unsupervised ...

We present an approach to syntax-based machine translation that combines uniication-style interpretation with statistical processing. This approach enables us to translate any Japanese newspaper article into English, with quality far better than a word-for-word translation. Novel ideas include the use of feature structures to encode word lattices and the use of uniication to compose and manipul...

This thesis attempts to create a more comprehensive catalogue of the appearance of the word aglæca throughout the Old English corpus. While the majority of these instances of the word appear in Beowulf, it also appears in such texts as Christ and Satan, Juliana, The Whale, Andreas, Daniel, Elene, and several of the Riddles from The Exeter Book. While Klaeber’s widely accepted binary glossing of...

This paper describes the creation of annotation standards for glossing sign language corpora as part of the Digging into Signs project (2014-2015, http://www.ru.nl/sign-lang/projects/digging-signs/). This project was based on the annotation of two major sign language corpora, the BSL Corpus (British Sign Language) and the Corpus NGT (Sign Language of the Netherlands). The focus of the gloss ann...

The current study investigated the effects of oral code-mixing and glossing on L2 vocabulary learning. To this end, 60 EFL learners studying at pre-university school were given a pre-test to make sure that they did not have any prior knowledge of the target words. Based on their scores in the pre-test, 36 pre-university students were selected and divided into three groups, including two experim...

We present the design of a practical context-sensitive glosser, incorporating current techniques for lightweight linguistic analysis based on large-scale lexical resources. We outline a general model for ranking the possible translations of the words and expressions that make up a text. This information can be used by a simple resource-bounded algorithm, of complexity O(n log n) in sentence len...

In recent years there has been a growing interest to incorporate hypertext glosses into L2 reading materials and accordingly, it has provoked researchers to uncover to what extent and under which moderator variables a specific type of gloss yields more effective outcomes than other types of glossing. The present meta-analysis attempts to examine the magnitude of the effect of different gloss ty...

We present the design of a practical context-sensitive glosser, incorporating current techniques for lightweight linguistic analysis based on large-scale lexical resources. We outline a general model for ranking the possible translations of the words and expressions that make up a text. This information can be used by a simple resource-bounded algorithm, of complexity O(n log n) in sentence len...

The interpretation of unemployment can differ, depending on whether it is presented in a micro or macro context. Instead of glossing over these different perspectives, instructors can expound on them as a means to reinforce basic graphical analysis, to introduce or review the distinction between stocks and flows, and to discuss policy issues related to unemployment, the measurement of unemploym...