Anyone who starts reading the Qurʾān out of linguistic and literary interest—whether in the original language or in a translation—very quickly becomes aware of the strong rhetorical effect of the text in its forcefulness and int...
With the spread of mobile applications and online interactive platforms, the number of user reviews are increasing explosively and becoming one of the most important ways for users to voice opinions. Opinion target extraction and opinion word extract...
Subjective preferences for visual qualities of shapes and fonts have been separately reported. Such preferences are often similarly attributed to factors such as aesthetic impressions, attributed meaning from the visual properties, or processing flue...
Introduction: Semantic memory is impaired in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Two main hypotheses about this finding are debated and refer to the degradation of stored knowledge versus the impairment of semantic access mechanisms. The aim of our stud...
Adults commonly struggle with perceiving and recognizing the sounds and words of a second language (L2), especially when the L2 sounds do not have a counterpart in the learner’s first language (L1). We examined how L1 Mandarin L2 English speake...
Tokenization is the first design choice in a language model and one of the most frequently overlooked for morphologically rich languages, as it directly shapes sequence length and how related word forms are segmented into reusable sub word units. Usi...
This article examines selected instances of Canaanite poetic parallelism preserved in two Late Bronze Age texts outside the Levant: the Hittite Elkunirša and the Egyptian pLeiden I 343 + 345. Through comparative analysis, it traces within thes...
Joint entity-relation extraction is a fundamental task in the construction of large-scale knowledge graphs. This task relies not only on the semantics of the text span but also on its intricate connections, including classification and structural det...
This study investigated the effects of collagen hydrolysates (CH) on language cognitive function and brain structure. In this open-label study, 5 g CH was administered once a day for 4 weeks to 30 healthy participants aged 49–63 years. The prim...
Product information has been propagated online via forums and social media. Lots of merchandise are recommended via an expert system method and is considered for purchase by online comments or product reviews. For predicting people’s opinions o...
In this study, we propose a simple and effective preprocessing method for subword segmentation based on a data compression algorithm. Compression-based subword segmentation has recently attracted significant attention as a preprocessing method for tr...
With the increasing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in various fields, achieving the precise localization of UAV images is crucial for enhancing their utility. Photogrammetry-based techniques, particularly bundle adjustment, serve as foundatio...
Although ageing is known to affect memory, the precise nature of its effect on retrieval and encoding processes is not well understood. Here, we examine the effect of ageing on the free recall of word lists, in which the semantic structure of word se...
Letter migrations between words in reading aloud (e.g., reading “cane love” as “lane love” or “lane cove”) are known to result from a deficit in the visual-orthographic analysis and characterize attentional dyslexi...
Embedding words from a dictionary as vectors in a space has become an active research field, due to its many uses in several natural language processing applications. Distances between the vectors should reflect the relatedness between the correspond...
A grammar-based compressor is an algorithm that receives a word and outputs a context-free grammar that only produces this word. The approximation ratio for a single input word is the size of the grammar produced for this word divided by the size of...
Making judgments of learning (JOLs) while studying is a useful tool for students to evaluate the status of their learning. Additionally, in associative learning contexts, JOLs can directly benefit learning when the to-be-learned information is relate...
Three experiments examined the role of audiovisual speech on 24-month-old monolingual and bilinguals’ performance in a fast-mapping task. In all three experiments, toddlers were exposed to familiar trials which tested their knowledge of known w...
Written language is a multimodal system that integrates visual, phonological, and semantic information. This study examines whether orthographic visual distinctiveness—the degree to which word forms differ visually—acts as a structural co...
We present a semi-automatic framework for transcribing foreign personal names into Lithuanian, aimed at reducing pronunciation errors in text-to-speech systems. Focusing on noisy, web-crawled data, the pipeline combines rule-based filtering, morpholo...
The current study examined judgments of learning (JOL) reactivity in social contexts. Participants studied related and unrelated cue–target word pairs. Half of the participants were asked to predict the likelihood that other people would rememb...
Making judgments of learning (JOLs) while studying related word pairs can enhance performance on tests that rely on cue-target associations (e.g., cued recall) compared to studying alone. One possible explanation for this positive JOL reactivity effe...
This work focuses on determining semantically close words and using semantic similarity in general in order to improve performance in information retrieval tasks. The semantic similarity of words is an important task with many applications from infor...
This study investigated the processing of lexical elements of idioms in isolation. Using visual word priming, spreading activation for idiomatically related word pairs (e.g., pop–question) was compared to that for semantically related (e.g., an...
To overcome the data sparseness in word embedding trained in low-resource languages, we propose a punctuation and parallel corpus based word embedding model. In particular, we generate the global word-pair co-occurrence matrix with the punctuation-ba...
Practice testing is a highly robust learning strategy that promotes long-term retention, especially in comparison to more passive strategies such as restudying—a finding referred to as the testing effect. However, learners do not always appreci...
The recognition and translation of organization names (ONs) is challenging due to the complex structures and high variability involved. ONs consist not only of common generic words but also names, rare words, abbreviations and business and industry j...
Recently, graph neural networks (GNN), due to their compelling representation learning ability, have been exploited to deal with emotion-cause pair extraction (ECPE). However, current GNN-based ECPE methods mostly concentrate on modeling the local de...
We investigated a technology-based tool for teaching English letter-sound correspondences with bilingual children learning phonologically and typologically distant languages: English and Chinese. We expect that learning about print at the phoneme lev...
User comments often contain their most practical requirements. Using topic modeling of user comments, it is possible to classify and downscale text data, mine the information in user comments, and understand users’ requirements and preferences....
Extant Chinese studies have documented that transposing characters within two-character words (e.g., 西装 suit) yields greater parafoveal preview benefits for target words compared to replacing the characters with unrelated ones (e.g., &#...
21 June 2021
This study focused on the associative learning of new word forms in the first language and haptic stimuli. In this study, healthy Japanese participants performed three-step tasks. First, participants made nine subjective evaluations of haptic stimuli...
Digital nomadism is emerging as a growing segment of the labor force. It is an insightful framework for understanding work during the pandemic and perhaps into the post-pandemic era because it construes work to be related to the notion of space, time...
This study explores whether semantic processing in parafoveal reading in the Italian language is modulated by the perceptual and lexical features of stimuli by analyzing the results of the rapid parallel visual presentation (RPVP) paradigm experiment...
At present, the development of animation-based works for human–computer interaction applications has increased. To generate animations, actions are pre-recorded and animation flows are configured. In this research, from two images of letters of...
24 October 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to severe consequences for people’s mental health. The pandemic has also influenced our language use, shaping our word formation habits. The overuse of new metaphorical meanings has received particular attention fr...
We study positive–negative guarded systems of language equations over a fixed finite alphabet. The ambient space is the complete ultrametric space of all formal languages equipped with a length-based distance, where two languages are close when...
Investigations into crispy and crunchy in American English have demonstrated that these synonymic taste words have differing effects on perceived taste depending on association. To test the generalizability of these findings, category fluency tasks w...
Schwa in English shows a considerable amount of contextual variation, to the extent that previous work has proposed that it is acoustically targetless. Although the consensus of previous research seems to suggest that schwa is targeted, the sources o...
This study investigates how the unique circumstances of heritage language acquisition impact prosody, an understudied aspect of heritage speech. I examine the perception and production of lexical pitch accent by two generations of heritage Lithuanian...
3 September 2022
Many studies have tested perceptual symbols in conceptual processing and found that perceptual symbols contain experiences from multisensory channels. However, whether the disability of one sensory channel affects the processing of the perceptual sym...
Background and Objectives: The attentional bias and information processing model explained that individuals who interpret pain stimuli as threatening may increase their attention toward pain-related information. Previous eye tracking studies found pa...
We study an abstract variant of squares (and shuffle squares) defined by a constraint graph G, specifying which pairs of words form a square. So, a shuffle G-square is a word that can be split into two disjoint subwords U and W (of the same leng...
In this paper, we inspect the theoretical problem of counting the number of analogies between sentences contained in a text. Based on this, we measure the analogical density of the text. We focus on analogy at the sentence level, based on the level o...
The scarcity of token-level verified bilingual word-alignment resources for the Uzbek language limits opportunities for evaluating alignment models and advancing cross-linguistic research. In this study, the UzAlign Gold Standard word-alignment corpu...
An emerging body of research has shown that requiring participants to make concurrent JOLs during learning can reactively influence memory performance, a phenomenon known as the reactivity effect. However, it remains unclear whether making JOLs can a...
How to acquire useful information intelligently in the age of information explosion has become an important issue. In this context, sentiment analysis emerges with the growth of the need of information extraction. One of the most important tasks of s...
Ugarit is a public web-based tool for manual annotation of parallel texts for generating word-level translation alignment. We aimed to develop a user-friendly interactive interface to visualize aligned texts and collect training data in the form of t...
This study compared automatic and controlled cognitive processes that underlie event-related potentials (ERPs) effects during speech perception. Sentences were presented to French native speakers, and the final word could be congruent or incongruent,...
Prominent sociolinguistic theories of language mixing have posited that single-word insertions of one language into the other are the result of a distinct process than multi-word alternations between two languages given that the former overwhelmingly...
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