A pattern in the translation of locative prepositional phrases between English and Spanish is presented. A way of exploiting this pattern is proposed in the context of a multilingual machine translation system under development. I n t r o d u c t i o n Two of the main problems in machine translation (MT) are ambiguity and lexical gaps. Ambiguity occurs when a word in the source language (SL) ha...

  Objective(s): To investigate the expression of human papilloma virus (HPV) L1 capsid protein, and human telomerase RNA component (hTERC) in cervical cancer and the role of detection of both genes in screening of cervical cancer.   Materials and Methods: A total of 309 patients were recruited and cervical exfoliated cells were collected. Immunocytochemistry was employed to detect HPV L1 capsid...

In this paper we present a mechanism for the automatic acquisition of rules from syntactic anotated corpora. This aproach is based on an extension of the Claire Cardie and David Pierce algorithm (Cardie y Pierce, 1998). The improvement of the model using lexicalization techniques (Molina, 2004) is shown.

Background: L1 retrotransposons are the most active mobile DNA elements in human genome. Unregulated L1 retrotransposition may have deleterious effect by disrupting vital genes and inducing genomic instabilities. Therefore, human cells control L1 elements by silencing their activities through epigenetic mechanisms. It has been shown that cell division and heavy metals stimulate the frequency of...

Paul M. Pietroski (University of Maryland) Thinking requires concepts. Talking requires words. We humans have thoughts that are composed of concepts, which we can express with words that can be combined to form sentences, which we can use to express thoughts. I take this as given. But how are human concepts related to the words that children naturally acquire? Do words compose in the same way, ...

This paper offers a definition of language iconicity. And it studies it from a fresh perspective--sociolinguistics. The paper discusses it from the following five sections: social class corresponds to language diversity; traditional concept corresponds to word order iconicity and syntactic iconicity; intimity or estrangement corresponds to lexicalization; regional varieties correspond to differ...