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Meaning in Hyperspace: Word Embeddings as Tools for Cultural Measurement

The Annual review of sociology
Word embeddings are language models that represent words as positions in an abstract many-dimensional meaning space. Despite a growing range of applications demonstrating their utility for sociology, there is little conceptual clarity regarding what ...
Andrei Boutyline, Alina Arseniev-Koehler
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Marketing China to U.S. travelers through electronic word-of-mouth and destination image: Taking Beijing as an example

, 2021
The tourism industry in China has grown significantly over the last two decades. Most of the growth, however, is fueled by domestic tourism. As one of the biggest tourism markets in the world, U.S.
Li Ran   +3 more
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Culture, Words and Understanding

Culture & Psychology, 1997
Goddard's (1997) comparative analysis of English and Malay surprise words is critically evaluated. While his major aim to overcome ethnocentric semantic comparisons is generally laudable, the methodological tool in the form of a universal inventory of lexical items is argued to prove unable to perform this job.
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Towards Cross-Cultural Machine Translation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Multilingual Knowledge Graphs

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Translating text that contains entity names is a challenging task, as cultural-related references can vary significantly across languages. These variations may also be caused by transcreation, an adaptation process that entails more than transliteration ...
Simone Conia   +5 more
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Word for word, culture to culture.

Hospitals & health networks, 2009
With so many patients speaking so many languages, skilled interpreters capture the nuances of what providers and patients say to each other. The best are "transparent" but essential members of the care team.
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Culture: The song beyond words

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 2001
The paperarises from Pakeha attem pts to dealwith bicultural responsiveness in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and represents the application of a social constructionist conceptual framework to practical issues faced by counsel brsworking around cultural difference.
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Chinese Number Words, Culture, and Mathematics Learning

Review of Educational Research, 2010
This review evaluates the role of language—specifically, the Chinese-based system of number words and the simplicity of Chinese mathematical terms—in explaining the relatively superior performance of Chinese and other East Asian students in cross-national studies of mathematics achievement.
Ng, SSN, Rao, N
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STUDYING WORDS THAT TEACH CULTURE

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1996
Native English-speakers have a conception of a private world which in general is different from that of native Chinese-speakers. Misunderstandings which result from this difference can perhaps be avoided as a result of increased understanding of two Chinese categories, si 'private, selfish, illegal' and gong 'public, unselfish, official'.
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Cultural influences on word meanings revealed through large-scale semantic alignment

Nature Human Behaviour, 2020
Bill D. Thompson   +2 more
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Culture, Psychiatry, and the Written Word

Psychiatry, 1959
(1959). Culture, Psychiatry, and the Written Word. Psychiatry: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 307-320.
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