Machine translation engines draw on various types of databases. This paper is concerned with Arabic as a source or target language, and focuses on lexical databases. The non-concatenative nature of Arabic morphology, the complex structure of Arabic word-forms, and the general use of vowel-free writing present a real challenge to NLP developers. We show here how and why a stem-grounded lexical d...

The theory of collocational networks adopts a textual definition of the phenomenon ofcollocation in an electronic corpus. The networks move out from a central node exploring thesignificant word associations of both base and collocate. This is done by measuring statisticalsignificance using mutual information. Working within a carefully-constructed corpus based on adiscourse comm...

This approach deals with developing logical/creative/critical thinking and problem-solving skills by means of clearly explaining grammar rules and by providing patterns and examples for organising effective dialogues or presentations in the foreign language, leading students towards free, meaningful communication. Enriching engineering students’ English vocabulary firstly focuses on the special...

Proprietary standardization seeks to increase a firm’s market share (pie sharing). Open standardization seeks to increase the size of the market (pie expansion). In order to determine which of these creates more value for a firm involved in standardization, this paper investigates the market value of standardization initiatives, using an event study based on 148 XML schema standardization initi...

This article dwells upon the scientific & technical texts translation problem based on oil gas industry related texts. The is focused basics of translation, as well importance to reach adequacy and equivalence. Lexical semantic features pertaining highlighted, causing difficulties when translated from English into Russian. These include terms, general commonly used lexis. In addition, attem...