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Multilingualism and the Periphery [PDF]
, 2013 This volume examines the complexities of the processes and practices of multilingualism in a wide range of economic, cultural, political and physical peripheral sites and spaces (tourism, education, indigenous and minority language rights and politics, gender relations, marketing, airports) in different geographic locations (Austria, Canada, Corsica ...
Pietikäinen, Sari, Kelly-Holmes, Helen
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Colonialism and Toponyms in Singapore
Urban 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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Education 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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Visual Affect Around the World: A Large-scale Multilingual Visual Sentiment Ontology [PDF]
, 2015 Every culture and language is unique. Our work expressly focuses on the uniqueness of culture and language in relation to human affect, specifically sentiment and emotion semantics, and how they manifest in social multimedia. We develop sets of sentiment-
Balahur A. +15 more
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Discovering Unwritten Stories—A Modular Case Study in Promoting Landscape Education
Education 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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Extrapolating Multilingual Understanding Models as Multilingual Generators
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023 Multilingual understanding models (or encoder-based), pre-trained via masked language modeling, have achieved promising results on many language understanding tasks (e.g., mBERT). However, these non-autoregressive (NAR) models still struggle to generate high-quality texts compared with autoregressive (AR) models.
Bohong Wu +4 more
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Urban 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?
Languages, 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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Multilingual Sentence Transformer as A Multilingual Word Aligner
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022 Multilingual pretrained language models (mPLMs) have shown their effectiveness in multilingual word alignment induction. However, these methods usually start from mBERT or XLM-R. In this paper, we investigate whether multilingual sentence Transformer LaBSE is a strong multilingual word aligner.
Weikang Wang +4 more
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Urban 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
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