Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Modern Standard Arabic Versions of the Berlin Questionnaire and Epworth Sleepiness Scale. [PDF]
Lahrichi Z +5 more
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Textual Entailment for Modern Standard Arabic
This thesis explores a range of approaches to the task of recognising textual entailment (RTE), i.e. determining whether one text snippet entails another, for Arabic, where we are faced with an exceptional level of lexical and structural ambiguity. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to carry out this task for Arabic.
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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The translation and validation of the surgical anxiety questionnaire into the modern standard Arabic language: results from classical test theory and item response theory analyses. [PDF]
Alghamdi AA +9 more
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Worlding geographies: A question of languages
Abstract This intervention responds to the ‘Geography in the World’ series, addressing the question from two angles. Firstly, it shifts the focus from geography in the world to worlding geographies. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of ‘becoming‐minority’, it encourages reflection on the current geography of knowledge production as a historical,
Anne‐Laure Amilhat Szary +9 more
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Improving neural machine translation for low resource languages through non-parallel corpora: a case study of Egyptian dialect to modern standard Arabic translation. [PDF]
Faheem MA +3 more
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Modality in Modern Standard Arabic: Hierarchical Structure and Complement Selection
Rima A. Aldrayweesh
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World Englishes, heterodoxy, and applied linguistics
Abstract It is understandable that many people find it challenging to adopt a positive moral position with regard to English and its role in the world. The language is used in many contexts and situations to prop up systems of discrimination and inequality, leading to negative material and symbolic outcomes.
Christopher Jenks
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