Phraseological Expressions and Other Stereotyped Expressions

Predicting loneliness based on emotional expressions and emotional ambivalence

Feelings of loneliness, excitement, and emotional ambiguity is one of the most common psychopathological complaints, which can have serious consequences for mental health. The aim of this study was to predict the feeling of loneliness based on the expression of emotion and emotional ambiguity. The method of the present study was a correlation. The statistical population of the present study inc...

Auditory and Other Non-verbal Expressions of Affect for Robots

This work focuses on the use of non-verbal methods of communicating affect in non-anthropomorphic appearance-constrained robots. The concepts discussed can be applied to other types of robotic systems. The paper gives a survey of relevant literature from the psychology community. Non-verbal methods of affective expression cannot be the sole means of communicating affect in robotic systems; howe...

Japanese Expressions that Include English Expressions

We extracted English expressions that appear in Japanese sentences in newspaper articles and on the Internet. The results obtained from the newspaper articles showed that the preposition “in” has been regularly used for more than ten years, and it is still regularly used now. The results obtained from the Internet articles showed there were many kinds of English expressions from various parts o...

Mastering regular expressions - powerful techniques for Perl and other tools

In the same boat and other idiomatic seafaring expressions

This paper reports on a research carried out at the Institute for Computational Linguistics (ILC) on a set of idiomatic nautical expressions in Italian and English. A total of 200 Italian expressions were first selected and examined, using both monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, as well as specific lexicographical works dealing with the subject of idiomaticity, especially of the maritime t...