This paper describes an ongoing project to develop and maintain a comprehensive electronic Japanese-English dictionary capable of use within a variety of search-and-display, electronic-text reading support, and machine translation environments. The project consists of two parts: (a) the compilation of two major dataales; a Japanese-English lexicon (EDICT), and a kanji information database (KANJ...

This special issue of Language and Linguistic Compass is dedicated to a three-part survey of the grammatical structure of Mayan languages. The articles in this collection focus on core, well-studied aspects of Mayan linguistics: phonology (Bennett), syntax (Coon), and semantics (Henderson). The perspective taken is broadly typological, but also informed by theoretical issues in formal linguisti...

We propose a robust method of automatically constructing a bilingual word sense dictionary from readily available monolingual ontologies by using estimation-maximization, without any annotated training data or manual tuning. We demonstrate our method on the English FrameNet and Chinese HowNet structures. Owing to the robustness of EM iterations in improving translation likelihoods, our word sen...

Abstract The democratic discourse on climate change and sustainable development is becoming increasingly polarized. While some voters are pushing back against the movement to wean world economy away from fossil fuels, others questioning huge costs that transition a green will impose whether such attempts have required impact. This essay discusses relationship between democracy by comparing reco...

This article critically interrogates media coverage of Claus Meyer, Danish gastro-entrepreneur, founder New Nordic Cuisine, and co-founder the restaurant noma. The analyzes how press has constructed Meyer as an exemplary social entrepreneur on a mission to take established agro-industrial interests change ways we produce consume food. We argue that uncritical narratives, positioned little man w...

This paper discusses Aldred’s glosses to the expanded forms of a series abbreviations (or notae) (Roman) legal terms included on fols 85r–86r Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A.iv.19. By taking novel approach work and focusing what his glossing practices can tell us about scholarly interests rather than taste for morphological semantic structures, this shows that, unlike other glossators working s...

The present study examined the effect of multimedia glosses on foreign language listening comprehension. To this end, 94 male students studying at Rasa English Institute in Tehran were selected for the treatment. The participants consisted of three groups, and each group was randomly assigned to one of the following treatment conditions: textual, pictorial, and textual-pictorial glossing....

Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS plastic) is one of the most widely used thermoplastic resins for electroplating. In electroplating, a glossing metallic layer coated on ABS plastic surface. Yet, electroplated coating has poor adhesion to plastics. Thus, polymer producers strive develop more adhesive electroplating grades plastic. Unfortunately, there no reliable method quantify chemistry-in...