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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Bilingual dictionaries"”.
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The use of monolingual English and bilingual Arabic-Engish dictionaries in Kuwait: an experimental investigation into the dictionaries used and reference skills deployed by university students of arts and science
… is an empirical investigation into the use of dictionaries by students of English and Science at Kuwait University with a particular focus on bilingual dictionaries of Arabic and English. In the introductory chapter we discuss the increasingly important role of vocabulary in EFL methodology and …
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Data-Efficient Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Pretrained Language Models
Bilingual dictionaries are essential language resources that play a crucial role in the development of modern multilingual and cross-lingual natural language processing (NLP) systems, particularly for resource-lean languages. Although there are 7,000+ languages spoken worldwide, existing bilingual …
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Pragmatic and cultural information in a Chinese-English learner's dictionary
… CFL students who choose to use Chinese-English dictionaries have relied on inadequate tools, inasmuch as these tools are either geared toward Chinese speakers, or designed for non-Chinese but long out of date. This dissertation, by addressing some of the lexicographical issues surrounding the …
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English-Khmer medical dictionary
… is a study in lexicography in the form of a bilingual medical dictionary, containing approximately 1,500 entries. The methodology followed in this study was mainly first-hand field work in conjunction with native speakers of Khmer in the country of Cambodia for a period of over one year …
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Searching for the semantic boundaries of the Japanese colour term 'ao'
… 'ao' (or 'aoi'), which is usually referred to in bilingual dictionaries as being the equivalent of English 'blue'. Very often, however, it is used to describe things which English speakers would describe as being green. Granny Smith apples are 'ao', so are all Westerners' eyes, regardless of …
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Dictionnaires arabes bilingues : présentation historique et étude comparative.
Bilingual Arabic lexicography came into being at the end of the 9th century. Unlike monolingual lexicography, bilingual lexicography in the Arab world advanced little during the Muslim empire, and lay dormant under the Ottoman occupation. It was not until the beginning of the 19th century, when …
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A corpus-driven study on translation units in an English-Chinese parallel corpus
… not sufficiently supported by traditional bilingual dictionaries. For my exploratory study presented here, I will use the Hong Kong Legal Document Parallel Corpus (HKLDC). This dissertation starts with the definition of the concept of the translation unit and its equivalent and goes on to …
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A Corpus-Based Study on the Portuguese Translations of English Adversative Coordinating Conjunctions and Adverbs in News Texts
… conjunctions and adverbs provided by four online bilingual dictionaries are the same or different from the ones used in the corpus. Another objective of the present investigation is to check if the positions of the conjunctions and adverbs vary between source and target segments. Finally, this …
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Lexical, cultural and grammatical translation problems encountered by senior Palestinian EFL learners at the Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine
… and their total dependence on existing bilingual dictionaries. Cultural errors on the other hand resulted from students’ unfamiliarity with the source language culture and lack of knowledge of the target culture. The study also revealed that male students committed more errors than …
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Rule based machine translation of spreadsheet formulas to natural language expressions
… machine translation that retrieves rules from bilingual dictionaries to translate source language expressions to target language expressions. This research work has three key contributions. First, an algorithm was designed for automatically translating traditional spreadsheet formulas into …
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Aspects of the learner's dictionary with special reference to advanced Pakistani learners of English
… sophisticated information structure of learners' dictionaries under evaluation and suggests some measures for improvement in this context. Chapter four considers various criteria, eg. pedagogic, linguistic and sociolinguistic for determining the macro-structure of learner's dictionary with a focus …
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Opinion Topic, Holder and Polarity in texts: exploration and automatic identification from cross-lingual data
… corpora. In pursuing this objective, a bilingual opinion-annotated corpus was constructed focusing on detailed opinion factors with editorial texts. Annotated opinion factors include the holder of an opinion (Holder) and the topic of an opinion with its polarity (Positive Topic, Negative …
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Semantic prosody in Thai
… as translation-equivalents in widely-used bilingual dictionaries in Thai and English similar or different? The datasets employed in the analysis are the Thai National Corpus and the British National Corpus. To address each research question, a small number of Thai words are selected for the …
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Pictorial illustrations in dictionaries
… in other text types, research into their use in dictionaries has been relatively limited. This study looks at the inclusion of pictorial illustrations in dictionaries with a special emphasis on African Language dictionaries. Ostensive addressing is an important lexicographic tool as it aids the …