Abstract In order to investigate the effect of source language on translations, we investigate two variants of a Korean translation corpus. The first variant consists of Korean translations of 162,308 Japanese sentences from the ATR BTEC (Basic Expression Text Corpus). The second variant was made by translating the English translations of the Japanese sentences into Korean. We show that the sou...

There has been increasing interest in the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages on the Web and the first objective of this paper is to compare the retrieval performances of nine vector-space and two probabilistic models when carrying out a monolingual search using these three Asian languages. Based on the latest NTCIR-3 test collection, our second goal is to analyze the relative merit of using...

Digital cinema (d-cinema) is the highest quality electronic motion imagery for entertainment. The cinema is presented in a theatrical environment, with high brightness projectors, high rate data transfer, and high resolution color imagery. The entertainment industry uses formats that are specific to film-based electronic imagery. This report describes software tools for viewing digital cinema s...

Odor control policy in Japan has been based on the Offensive Odor Control Law, which regulates the emission of offensive odors generated from business to prevent a nuisance occurring. In Korea, odor control has been under the Air Conservation Law at present. But the Korean Offensive Odor Control Law, newly prepared to be enacted this year, strengthening the regulation of emission of odor, have ...

root colonization by antagonist bacteria has been considered as a prerequisite for a successful biocontrol. for an effective suppression of plant disease, an efficient and fast colonization is necessary to prevent the establishment of pathogen on the root system. colonization of canola root by strain utpf86 were investigated with and without rhizoctonia solani ag-4, under greenhouse conditions....