The present study examined effects of cross-linguistic overlap and language proficiency on bilingual parallel language activation. Recognition of cognates (e.g., English hen, German Henne) was compared to recognition of non-cognates (e.g., English bike, German Fahrrad) in English-German bilinguals, German-English bilinguals, and monolinguals. In an eye-tracking paradigm, participants identified...

in order to assess the influence of breed on the vertebral heart scale (vhs) of dogs, the vhs was measured and compared in left to right (ll) and right to left lateral (rl) views. for all dogs (n=56), the mean vhs on the rl radiographs [9.7 vertebra (v)] was significantly larger than the mean vhs on the ll radiographs (9.6 v) (p=0.047). doberman dogs had higher mean values of the vhs in ll (9.9...

many researchers believe that grammatical terminology has no spontaneous influence in the procedure of language learning. this study is trying to say that if german grammar is to be translated to persian , the translator should take into consideration the differences between german and persian grammatical terminology . otherwise , the reader will face a serious challenge in comprehending the tr...

The current integrated developments in network and computing give rise to a technical infrastructure for the information society which one may variously circumscribe by terms such as ubiquitous computing, telepresence and the network as one giant global database. The paper applies to the network the metaphor of global database, and subsumes the aspects of ubiquity and telepresence under it. It ...

Jürgen Wiese a, Armin Stahl b and Joachim Hansen c Anlagenund Sondermaschinen Automation GmbH (ASA GmbH) Robert-Bosch-Street 7, 32547 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, E-mail: [email protected] German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition Group, Erwin-Schrödinger-Str., 67608 Kaiserslautern, Germany, E-mail: [email protected] c tectraa Cente...

A central issue for making the content of a scientific document quickly accessible to a potential reader is the extraction of keyphrases, which capture the main topic of the document. Keyphrases can be extracted automatically by generating a list of keyphrase candidates, ranking these candidates, and selecting the top-ranked candidates as keyphrases. We present the KeyWE system, which uses an a...

Zusammenfassung: Videokonferenzen entwickeln sich immer mehr zu einem Werkzeug für die breite Palette der Tele-Anwendungen. Mit der Inbetriebnahme des G-WiN wurden die technischen Voraussetzungen für die Nutzung innovativer Anwendungen wie Audiound Videoübertragungen in akzeptabler Qualität wesentlich verbessert. Eines der Hauptziele des DFN-Projektes “Beratungszentrums für Videokonferenzdienst...

Felipe A. W. Belo Interdepartmental Center “E. Piaggio,” Universitá di Pisa, Pisa, Italy e-mail: [email protected] Andreas Birk Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany e-mail: [email protected] Christopher Brunskill Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey, Surrey, United Kingdom e-mail: [email protected] Frank Kirchner DFKI, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany e-mail: frank.k...

This paper gives an overview of recent developments in the German Reference Corpus DRK in terms of growth, maximising relevant corpus strata, metadata, legal issues, and its current and future research interface. Due to the recent acquisition of new licenses, DRK has grown by a factor of four in the first half of 2014, mostly in the area of newspaper text, and presently contains over 24 b...

This report describes the work done by the QA group of the Multilingual Technologies Lab at DFKI for the 2015 edition of the TREC LiveQA track. We describe the system, issues faced and the approaches followed considering the time lines of the track.