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Unveiling the Enigmatic Origins of Sardinian Toponyms

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
With the boom in Indo-European (IE) studies among linguists from the early 20th century, toponymic studies on European place names have been largely based on the Proto-Indo-European (PIE).
Brenda Man Qing Ong   +1 more
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Automatic Speech Disfluency Detection Using wav2vec2.0 for Different Languages with Variable Lengths

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2023
Speech is critical for interpersonal communication, but not everyone has fluent communication skills. Speech disfluency, including stuttering and interruptions, affects not only emotional expression but also clarity of expression for people who stutter ...
Jiajun Liu   +3 more
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A Cross-language Information Retrieval System Based On Linguistic And Statistical Approaches

open access: yesAl-Lisaniyyat, 2013
As the number of non-English documents that are available on the World Wide Web and in corporate repositories increases, the ability to quickly and effectively search and view documents across language boundaries will continue to grow in importance ...
Nasreddine Semmar, Faiza Elkateb-Gara
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AB-LaBSE: Uyghur Sentiment Analysis via the Pre-Training Model with BiLSTM

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to text sentiment analysis, which has gradually become a research hotspot in information extraction, data mining, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and other fields.
Yijie Pei   +4 more
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Colonialism and Toponyms in Singapore

open access: yesUrban Science, 2020
Place names do not simply refer to physical locations. They are linguistic symbols full of connotative meaning, carrying a range of cognitive, social, historical, cultural, and ideological significance.
Samantha JingYi Yom, Francesco Cavallaro
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Factors Constraining Teachers’ Wellbeing and Agency in a Finnish University: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic forced teachers to undergo a sudden shift toward technology-enhanced teaching and learning, challenging their capacities for change in many ways.
Tiina Mäkelä   +6 more
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Discovering Unwritten Stories—A Modular Case Study in Promoting Landscape Education

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2021
Landscapes have been and are an important aspect of any society, culture, economy and environment. Besides the role of landscape and Landscape Sciences in these arenas, there have been increasingly greater calls to incorporate landscape into the ...
Shaun Tyan Gin Lim   +1 more
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Sequent Occupance and Toponymy in Singapore: The Diachronic and Synchronic Development of Urban Place Names

open access: yesUrban Science, 2019
This paper is aimed at investigating the applicability of the notion of Sequent Occupance to the Singapore context. Sequent Occupance as a phenomenon in Human Geography was first theorized by Derwent Whittlesey in 1929 in order to describe the current ...
Francesco Cavallaro   +2 more
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Bilingualism, Culture, and Executive Functions: Is There a Relationship?

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
The relationship between executive functions (EF) and bilingualism has dominated debate in the field. This debate was characterised by optimism for a bilingual advantage until the last decade, when a steady stream of articles reported failure to find a ...
Wenhan Xie   +2 more
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Then and Now: A Comparative Historical Toponomastics Analysis of Station Names in 2 of Singapore’s Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Lines

open access: yesUrban Science, 2020
Public transport is integral to the development of cities. It promotes economic development, mitigates environmental degradation, and fosters a sense of social cohesion. Notwithstanding, one can understand a place’s culture, geography, history, languages,
Shaun Tyan Gin Lim   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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