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Voices of formerly enslaved: A new text corpus of narratives by formerly enslaved persons
Scientific DataThese data consist of newly OCRed and annotated narratives, both autobiographical texts written by, and interviews with, formerly enslaved persons of African descent in the United States of America and the Caribbean, including extensive time-related and ...
Irene Elmerot +2 more
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Not Batting an Eye: Figurative Meanings of L2 Idioms Do Not Interfere with Literal Uses
LanguagesEncountering idioms (hit the sack = “go to bed”) in a second language (L2) often results in a literal-first understanding (“literally hit a sack”). The figurative meaning is retrieved later, subject to idiom familiarity and L2 proficiency, and typically ...
Marianna Kyriacou, Franziska Köder
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Incremental refinement of relevance rankings: Balancing relevance depth and scope
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Delivering both relevant and topically diverse results is a key challenge in information retrieval (IR). This study introduces a hybrid method that incrementally refines rankings by combining probabilistic topic modeling (latent dirichlet allocation [LDA]) with citation‐based pennant retrieval grounded in Relevance Theory (RT), optimizing for ...
Müge Akbulut, Yaşar Tonta
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The Noise of Multilingualism : Reader Diversity, Linguistic Borders and Literary Multimodality [PDF]
, 2017 The article proposes a new multimodal approach to literary multilingualism, with special attention devoted to how readers with different language skills partake in making literary multilingualism happen.
Huss, Markus, Tidigs, Julia
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Multilingual Translation with Extensible Multilingual Pretraining and Finetuning
CoRR, 2020 Recent work demonstrates the potential of multilingual pretraining of creating one model that can be used for various tasks in different languages. Previous work in multilingual pretraining has demonstrated that machine translation systems can be created by finetuning on bitext.
Yuqing Tang +7 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract The integrity of scholarly communication depends critically on the accuracy and verifiability of cited references. Citations enable readers to trace prior work, assess evidence, and situate new contributions within the existing literature. However, concerns have emerged regarding the presence of references in published papers that cannot be ...
Chengcheng Han +3 more
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2013 The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the workflow for the elaboration of multilingual terminology in the legal and administrative domain. Next to giving a short overview over each single step in the workflow, we focus on two important aspects that
Elena CHIOCCHETTI +3 more
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Productive vocabulary learning in pre-primary education through soft CLIL
Open Linguistics, 2022 The present study aims to contribute to the field of Foreign Language (FL) acquisition by analysing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) vocabulary learning in pre-primary education learners following a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL ...
Segura Marta +2 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Editorial boards play a central role in shaping scholarly communication by influencing what research is published and how disciplinary boundaries are defined. Despite their importance, large‐scale, systematic evidence on their composition and structure remains limited.
Evangelina Becerra‐Rodero +1 more
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Royal Society Open ScienceCaregivers often modulate their speech when interacting with infants, adapting a register that has been suggested to have attentional, affective and didactic purposes.
Audun Rosslund +5 more
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