This paper reports on three business opportunities encountered by Spoken Translation, Inc., a developer of software systems for automatic spoken translation: (1) a healthcare organization needing improved communications between limited-English patients and their caregivers; (2) a networking and communications firm aiming to add UN-style simultaneous interpreting to their telepresence facilities...

The RM-ODP is a reference model that provides a coordinating framework for Open Distributed Processing standards, and offers a well-defined and comprehensive set of concepts and functions for the specification of ODP systems. Some years after its release as International Standard, an ISO Study Group will evaluate the need for a revision of RM-ODP, a customary process for ISO standards. The goal...

Social scientists have shown that up to $$50\%$$ of the comments posted a news article no relation its journalistic content. In this study we propose classification algorithm categorize user based on their alignment The seeks match an similarity content, entities in discussion, and topics. We BERTAC, BERT-based approach learns jointly article-comment embeddings infers relevance class comments. ...

Scientific disputes about public health issues can become emotional battlefields marked by strong emotions like anger, contempt, and disgust. Contemporary work in moral psychology demonstrates that each of these emotions is a reaction to a specific type of moral violation. Applying this work to harm reduction debates, specifically the use of smokeless tobacco to reduce harm from tobacco use, we...

In this issue of PLOS Pathogens, we are introducing a new front matter series to allow individual scientists from the many fields that encompass our community of editors, authors, and readers to comment on why the fundamental research in their labs, and that of their collaborators, matters. The genesis of this idea comes from the apparent gulf between working scientists and the general public t...

The issues raised by Wittgenstein’s language games are fundamental to any theory of semantics, formal or informal. Montague’s view of natural language as a version of formal logic is at best an approximation to a single language game or a family of closely related games. But it is not unusual for a short phrase or sentence to introduce, comment on, or combine aspects of multiple language games....

BACKGROUND Ultrasonography (US) plays a crucial role in the diagnostic management of thyroid nodules, but its widespread use in clinical practice might generate heterogeneity in ultrasound reports. OBJECTIVES The aims of the study were to propose (a) a standardized lexicon for description of thyroid nodules in order to reduce US reports of interobserver variability and (b) a US classification...

this study investigated the relationship between language learning aptitude (lla) and the use of language learning strategies (llss) among a cohort of iranian efl students at urmia university, iran. the adapted versions of the modern language aptitude test (mlat; carrol & sapon, 1983) and oxford’s (1990) strategy inventory for language learning (sill) were distributed among the participants...