Metaphorical and Interlingual Translation in Moving Organizational Practices Across Languages

Interlingual Indexing across Different Languages

We present two methods for automatic indexing, which are based on an interlingual layer of content description. In the first approach, we acquire indexing patterns from English documents by statistically relating interlingual representations of English documents (based on text token bigrams) to their associated

Metacognitive (Rending) Strategies Across Languages and Techniques

Interlingual Machine Translation

The first part of this paper considers some of the reasons why mechanical translation via a logically formalized interlingua is worth pursuing. The interlingua described consists of a network of bonded semantic elements, the bonds being either homogeneous, corresponding to a generalized notion of qualification, or heterogeneous, for dyadic relations. The translation procedure involves a basic p...

Translation and Extension of Concepts Across Languages

We present a method which, given a few words defining a concept in some language, retrieves, disambiguates and extends corresponding terms that define a similar concept in another specified language. This can be very useful for cross-lingual information retrieval and the preparation of multi-lingual lexical resources. We automatically obtain term translations from multilingual dictionaries and ...

Metaphorical Thinking in English and Chinese Languages

This study examines the metaphoric meanings in English and Chinese and explores the similar patterns and variations. With specific reference to metaphors with human bodies and animals, the study analyzes the cultural conceptions behind the metaphors and discovers that the interpretation of metaphorical meanings lies in the different cultural values and attitudes. The awareness of metaphor usage...