This paper examines the question of differences between a traditional interlingua approach and a transferbased approach that uses cross-linguistic semantic features to generalize its transfer lexicon entries, and concludes that the two approaches share a common interest in lexical classifications that can be distinguished by cross-linguistic semantic features. The paper goes on to discuss curre...

We present a new dependency parsing method for Korean applying cross-lingual transfer learning and domain adaptation techniques. Unlike existing transfer learning methods relying on aligned corpora or bilingual lexicons, we propose a feature transfer learning method with minimal supervision, which adapts an existing parser to the target language by transferring the features for the source langu...

Following Swales’s  (1981)  works  on  genre  analysis,  studies  on  different  sections  of  Research Articles  (RAs)  in  various  languages  and  fields  abound;  however,  only  scant  attention  has  been directed toward abstracts written in Persian, and in the field of literature. Moreover, claims made by Lores (2004) regarding the correspondence of two types of abstracts with different ...

Epistemic modality devices are believed to be one of the prominent characteristics of research articles as the commonly used genre among the academic community members. Considering the importance of such devices in producing and comprehending scientific discourse, this study aimed to cross–culturally and cross-linguistically investigate epistemic modality markers as an important subcategory...