Interlingual Communication during French Scientific Expeditions to Lappland, Peru and South Africa in the 18th Century
 In this paper, I try outline image of interlingual communication scientific expeditions by detecting analysing remarks about such instances narratives expeditions’ commanders. analyse a narrative Maupertuis on his geodesic mission Lappland (1734- 1735), two La Condamine (...

This paper argues that glossing is an essential stage in the borrowing of writing systems. I use the term “glossing” in a somewhat extended sense to refer to a process where a text in one language is prepared (annotated, marked) to be read in another. I argue that this process of “vernacular reading” – reading a text written in the script, orthography, lexicon and grammar of a more prestigious ...

Rendering materials on displays becomes ubiquitous in industrial design, architecture, and visualization. Yet the experience of the material from other modes of perception is missing in that representation. This forces observers to rely on visual cues only while judging material properties. In the present study, we compare judgments of rough and glossy surfaces by interacting and passive observ...

The visual impression of an object's surface reflectance ("gloss") relies on a range of visual cues, both monocular and binocular. Whereas previous imaging work has identified processing within ventral visual areas as important for monocular cues, little is known about cortical areas involved in processing binocular cues. Here, we used human functional MRI (fMRI) to test for brain areas selecti...

We evaluate two types of lexical resources with respect to their applicability to interlingual machine translation: (1) a EuroWordNetbased database of bilingual links between Spanish and English words; and (2) a repository of semantically classified verbs with their corresponding Lexical Conceptual Structure (LCS) representations. We examine the utility of these two resources for the task of le...