Etymology and Word Decoding

Word Etymology as Native Language Interference

We present experiments that show the influence of native language on lexical choice when producing text in another language – in this particular case English. We start from the premise that non-native English speakers will choose lexical items that are close to words in their native language. This leads us to an etymologybased representation of documents written by people whose mother tongue is...

Etymology, history, and artifacts

Elliptic really does have a connection with literal geometric ellipses, removed by a few steps. Integrals expressing arc length of ellipses are less elementary than integrals for inverse trigonometric functions, and were named elliptic because of this. Abel and Jacobi discovered in 1827 that the inverse functions are doubly periodic (explained below). This chain of events caused these functions...

Medical Etymology

Minimum Word Error Rate Decoding

From the theory of Bayesian pattern recognition it is well known that the maximum a posteriori decision criterion yields a recogniser with the minimum probability of assigning the incorrect label to a pattern, if the correct probability distributions are used. This MAP criterion is also routinely employed in automatic speech recognition system. The problem addressed in this thesis is the fact t...

Word etymology in monolingual and bilingual dictionaries: lexicographers2 versus EFL learners2 perspectives

This paper deals with the treatment of word etymology in monolingual and bilingual dictionaries. It also investigates EFL learners' attitudes towards the importance of etymology for understanding the meaning of the words they look up in dictionaries. The data were collected through tasks of looking up Arabic loan words in English in monolingual and bilingual dictionaries. The results indicate t...