Abstract While sound glosses from the Six Dynasties and early Tang provide direct evidence for morphological alternations in Archaic Chinese, studies on syntax of this language generally disregard these data. This neglect is due part to perceived unreliability glosses. In paper, I first argue that arguments against their reliability do not stand scrutiny, they are a simple philological curiosit...

This study compared the effects of two annotation modalities on the reading comprehension of Iranian intermediate level EFL learners. The two experimental groups under study received treatment on 10 academic L2 reading passages under one of two conditions: One group received treatment on key words in the reading passages through a multimedia environment providing textual annotations. The second...

Besides synsets and semantic relations, synset glosses are an important feature of wordnets. However, due to the required effort, their creation is sometimes left undone. This happens in Onto.PT, a Portuguese wordnet created automatically, which does not have glosses. In our work, we exploited Portuguese dictionaries to automatically assign definitions to the synsets of Onto.PT. For this purpos...

We present a novel graph-based algorithm for the automated disambiguation of glosses in lexical knowledge resources. A dictionary graph is built starting from senses (vertices) and explicit or implicit relations in the dictionary (edges). The approach is based on the identification of edge sequences which constitute cycles in the dictionary graph (possibly with one edge reversed) and relate a s...

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Many standard definitions of ‘argument’ that recognise an ambiguity between its active and objective senses seek to subsume these in various ways into a single, composite whole. This, it is argued, glosses over the distinction instead exploiting elucidatory potential. Whilst optimistic about prospects theory integration, paper recommends methodology differentiation as first necessary step towar...

Introduction: Transient cavitations induced by low frequency irradiation of ultrasound can be used to treat tumors. Previous studies in in-vitro experiments have shown that induced cavitation by dual or multiple frequencies of ultrasound is greater than induced cavitation by single frequency irradiation. In this study, we compared and evaluated the treatment effects of dual frequency irradiatio...

we investigate the temperature-dependences of the Brillouin frequency shift in three different kind of single-mode fibers using a heterodyne method for sensing temperature. Positive dependences coefficients of 0.77, 0.56 and 1.45MHz/0C are demonstrated for 25 km long single-mode fiber, 10 km long non-zero dispersion shifted fiber and 100 m photonic crystal fiber, respectively. The results indic...

Like most natural language disambiguation tasks, word sense disambiguation (WSD) requires world knowledge for accurate predictions. Several proxies for this knowledge have been investigated, including labeled corpora, user-contributed knowledge, and machine readable dictionaries, but each of these proxies requires significant manual effort to create, and they do not cover all of the ambiguous t...

The objective of this work is to design a translation machine which can translate English text to Indian Sign Language glosses. A number of rule based approaches are identified in this regard, but our approach is based on statistical machine translation for ISL by using a corpus. The corpus is prepared by collecting glosses and sentences used in Indian Railways for announcement and conversation...