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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 …
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Sparse seismic signal processing using adaptive dictionaries
… various types of data with respect to adaptive dictionaries that are learned by different strategies. The new seismic data reconstruction method involves a sparse representation over a parametric dictionary, which bridges a gap between model-based and data-driven sparse approximations. The new …
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Compressed and dynamic fault dictionaries for fault isolation
… that have in the past limited the use of fault dictionaries for VLSI fault isolation. Dictionary formats have been analyzed, and a new, more accurate matching algorithm has been developed. Alternative techniques for compressing fault dictionaries have been investigated to address size and …
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Multi-word Items in Dictionaries from a Translator's Perspective
Translation dictionaries are the tools of translators who use them to transfer from the source text to the target text, as they use them whenever they encounter puzzling words. Thus, this research investigates the degree of usefulness of these dictionaries when rendering English and Arabic …
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Sparse and Redundant Image Representations Using Adaptive Dictionaries in Digital Image Denoising
… image patch representations using redundant dictionaries and has been shown to denoise images fairly well. We look to improve this method by adapting the dictionaries to more accurately represent specific image features. The image features were chosen to be the details, textures, and smooth …
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Misheard Me Oronyminator: Using Oronyms to Validate the Correctness of Frequency Dictionaries
… phrases are called oronyms. Word frequency dictionaries are often used by speech recognition systems to help resolve phonetic sequences with more than one possible orthographic phrase interpretation, by looking up which oronym of the root phonetic sequence contains the most-common words.<br …
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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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Automated Learning of Event Coding Dictionaries for Novel Domains with an Application to Cyberspace
… effort to produce and update sets of required dictionaries. I introduce a novel method for generating large dictionaries appropriate for event-coding given only a small sample dictionary. This technique leverages recent advances in natural language processing and deep learning to greatly reduce …
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Translation students' use of dictionaries: a Hong Kong case study for Chinese to English translation
The use of the dictionary and translation are both common language experiences. The dictionary is an indispensable tool to translating. Yet dictionary skills are grossly neglected in translator training, which assumes that students have acquired all the necessary knowledge and skills before …
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ESL students' use of concordances and dictionaries in the transfer of academic word knowledge: a comparative study
<p>Concordancing in the classroom is fairly a new approach which has emerged with the use of corpora in language learning. In a concordance, language is presented in natural setting; learners are able to examine a key word in the context of a string of sentences which can exemplify the use of that …
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The Lemmatisation of The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry with a Relational Database of Old English Dictionaries
… headword using the Interface of Old English Dictionaries (IOED) relational database framework. This relational database integrates key Old English lexicographical resources, including the Dictionary of Old English (DOE), Bosworth-Toller (BT), VariOE, Norna, Freya, ParCorEv2, Unimorph, and …
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Dictionnaires arabes bilingues : présentation historique et étude comparative.
… is characterized by an evergrowing of number of dictionaries. Bilingual Arabic dictionaries produced since the Renaissance are not only numerous, but varied. Nonetheless, most of them share the trait of following traditional lexographic methods. An indepth study of four dictionaries reveals the …
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Frekvenční analýza tvarů ruky ve vybraných slovnících českého znakového jazyka
… frequency in the selected Czech sign language dictionaries. The main aim was to analyze the occurence of handshapes in two types of Czech sign language dictionaries (general and terminology) and compare them. A secondary aim was to analyze the handshapes of active and passive hand in these …
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Second Language Vocabulary Learning in the Digital Era A Study of Mobile-based Dictionaries (MBDs) in Chinese EFL Learners’ Incidental English Vocabulary Learning: Exploring Effectiveness, Learners’ Use and Attitude
… has led to increasing use of mobile-based dictionaries (MBDs) by English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners at Chinese universities, especially for self-directed informal language learning. Although many studies have explored the role of dictionaries in Chinese learners’ L2 vocabulary …
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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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'n metaleksikografiese ondersoek na konteksleiding in Afrikaanse vertalende woordeboeke
… contextual guidance in Afrikaans translation dictionaries. The problem that gives rise to the need for such an investigation is demonstrated from a practical perspective, after which attention is paid to determining the genuine purpose of a dictionary by looking at the component parts of the …
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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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Study and Lexicogrammatical Proposal of Physical Perception Verbs in English
… undefined and, thus, not properly reflected in dictionaries, e.g., its syntactico-semantic potential. Hence, the current study is divided into two main sections: first, a theoretical characterization of physical perception verbs in English, and second, an applied characterization of such verbs. …
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Using dynamic analysis to infer Python programs and convert them into database programs
… implements a Python program that uses lists and dictionaries to implement the database functionality. Nero then instruments the Python list and dictionary implementations and uses active learning to generate inputs that enable it to infer the behavior of the program. The program can be …
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Efficient data structures for information retrieval
… static and dynamic techniques for handling large dictionaries, inverted lists, and optimizations applied to ranking algorithms. We have carried out an experiment called REVTOLC that demonstrated the efficiency and applicability of our algorithms and data structures. Also, the REVTOLC experiment …
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