This paper investigates the speech rhythm of Porteño (Buenos Aires) Spanish (PORTE), which is strongly influenced by Italian due to migration-induced contact, and L2 Peninsular Spanish, produced by Italian natives (SPA L2). It is hypothesized that Italian learners transfer the rhythmic values of their L1 to the target language Spanish and that the data produced by speakers of both the contact v...

This work presents a comparative evaluation among three different Spanish segmentation strategies for Spanish-Chinese transliteration. The transliteration task is implemented by means of Statistical Machine Translation, using Chinese characters and Spanish sub-word segments as the textual units to be translated. Three different Spanish segmentation strategies are evaluated: character-based, syl...

Sociolinguistic research suggests that US Hispanic and Spanish consumers may differ in their response to ads with English and Spanish. An experiment with US Hispanic (N = 97) and Spanish (N = 132) participants showed that, although US Hispanic participants indicated that they used more English and less Spanish in various situations, and had a less positive general attitude to English than did S...

This paper presents some statistical machine translation results among English, Spanish and Chinese, and focuses on exploring Spanish-morphology effects on the Chinese to Spanish translation task. Although not strictly comparable, it is observed that by reducing Spanish morphology the accuracy achieved in the Chinese to Spanish translation task becomes comparable to the one achieved in the Chin...

We conducted a user study of monolingual and bilingual Spanish-speaking consumers (n=36) to evaluate a Spanish-language ClinicalTrials.gov prototype. The prototype leverages an existing English-only consumer health resource by combining (1) Spanish-English cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) and (2) English-Spanish document display techniques. We collected user feedback on expectations,...

Four groups of goats, Boer x Spanish, straightbred Spanish, Spanish x Angora, and straightbred Angora were slaughtered at a constant age according to accepted industry procedures. At 24 h postmortem, various carcass yield and quality measurements were taken. At 48 h postmortem, one side from each carcass was fabricated into major wholesale cuts for dissection into percentage lean, bone, and fat...

BACKGROUND National studies report patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) have difficulty finding bilingual physicians; however, it is unclear whether this situation is primarily a result of an inadequate supply of bilingual physicians or a lack of the insurance coverage necessary to gain access to bilingual physicians. In California, 12% of urban residents are Spanish-speaking with so...

In this paper we present initial work on cross-language word sense disambiguation for translating adjectives from Spanish to Quechua and situate CLWSD as part of the translation task. While there are many available resources for training Spanish-language NLP systems, linguistic resources for Quechua, especially Spanish-Quechua bitext, are quite limited, so some ingenuity is required in developi...

This paper aims to introduce the process used to create a “Parallel Learners’ Corpus of Spanish and English” (CPATEI) by integrating the theories and techniques of Corpus Linguistics, and to investigate the conjunctions used by the Spanish learners in Taiwan. The collected data in CPATEI are contributed by learners of Spanish from two universities in Taiwan, including Spanish compositions and t...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The Working Group on Ischemic Heart Disease and Coronary Care Units of the Spanish Society of Cardiology evaluated the applicability of a new definition of infarction in Spanish hospitals, its current use, and the opinion of Spanish cardiologists. METHODS A telephone survey was made (from late 2001 to early 2002) in Spanish hospitals to evaluate the availability of...