This paper presents the results of the adoption of the WordFrame model to the Filipino language. The WordFrame model, developed by Richard Wicentowski, is a robust multi-lingual supervised learning algorithm that learns a language’s morphological process. This algorithm models a word as a seven-way split, namely, the canonical prefix, the point-ofprefixation change, common substrings, vowel cha...

Morphological analyzers (MA) are automated systems that (1) derive the root word of a transformed word, (2) identify the affixes used and (3) identify the change in semantics after the word transformation. MAs are used in the field of natural language processing and information retrieval systems to reduce the size of its word dictionary or lexicon, while being able to efficiently analyze the sy...

Most machine translators are implemented using example based, rule based, and statistical approaches. However, each of these paradigms has its drawbacks. Example based and statistical based approaches are domain specific and requires a large database of examples to produce accurate translation results. Although rule based approach is known to produce high quality translations, a linguist is nec...

In this paper, two sets of phonetically balanced words (PBW) in Filipino were developed; namely the 2syllable, and 3-syllable PBW list. These are tested as a speech corpus in a word-level recognizer using the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) as a framework and Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) as a feature extraction technique. Thus, this study is a preparation for a Largecorpus Filipino Langu...

BACKGROUND Overweight increased among Filipino mothers and offspring from 1994 to 2005 however, a higher rate of increase among mothers resulted in a prevalence 4 times higher than that among offspring in 2005. Our aim was to explore the differential effects of changing income, assets, maternal education, and urbanicity on dietary behaviors of mothers and offspring that may affect overweight ri...

AIMS Sociocultural factors are thought to be important in the pathogenesis of eating disorders. However, there have been few studies comparing eating behavior among various cultural populations. The aim of the present study is to compare attitudes towards bodyweight and shape, and desire for thinness in Japanese male and female subjects with those in people from other countries and of different...

OBJECTIVE The use of physicians is more common than of behavioral specialists, especially in underserved Asian American communities. Despite a rapidly aging Asian American population, research has overlooked older people. This study examines the way mental health need affects the number of physician contacts by older Asian Americans. METHOD This study uses data on self-identified Asian Americ...

Necrotizing fasciitis caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae has been described in Southeast Asia, but has only recently begun to emerge in North America. The hypermucoviscous strain of K. pneumoniae is a particularly virulent strain known to cause devastatingly invasive infections, including necrotizing fasciitis. Here we present the first known case of necrotizing fasciitis caused by hypermucoviscou...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this work was to estimate asthma prevalence among US children in racial minority subgroups who have been historically underrepresented in the pediatric asthma literature. These subgroups include American Indian/Alaska Native, Chinese, Filipino, and Asian Indian children. We also explored the association between these race categories and asthma after adjusting for demog...

This article examines the different factors which may explain gender selectivity among Filipino labour migrants in Rome, where women are around 70 per cent of this nationality group. Following the analysis of labour demand in the domestic service sector, it explores 'supply’ aspects, ranging from economic conditions within the Philippine labour market to noneconomic constraints, such as ideolog...