Due to the special characteristics and challenges in Chinese language, event extraction in Chinese is much more difficult than that in English. In particular, the state-of-the-art Chinese event extraction systems suffer much from the low recall in trigger identification due to the failure in identifying unknown triggers and the inconsistency in identifying trigger mentions. To resolve these two...

This paper examines the reading strategies that four Chinese adult readers use in reading both Chinese and English texts. Their strategies they used are analyzed into two broad categories: the text-initiated strategies and the reader-initiated strategies. All participants demonstrated more strategy use in reading the English texts than in reading the Chinese text. In general, participants were ...

The article is devoted to the study of language representations of the concept of “woman” in the minds of the Russian and Chinese people based on a comparison of associative experiments of two languages, identifying the dynamics of the concept in the language consciousness of the people, establishing the specificity of the concept in the Russian language picture of the world referring to the Ch...

Traditional Chinese medicine is gaining increasing attention and popularity in Hong Kong. There is no doubt that traditional Chinese medicine as a system of medicine works; however, this does not imply that every therapy is efficacious. Prevention of the initiation and continuation of ineffective intervention is extremely important for the efficiency of any health care system. The evaluation of...

It might seem strange that an article on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) should be written by a scientist living and working in England. The confidence of western people is low, when it comes to using Chinese plants and formulae. However, there are so many wonderful blends that are beneficial for the skin, both internally and used externally, that it is about time that more effort was spent ...

The mixed Chinese postman problem is a version of the well-known Chinese postman problem in which the underlying graph consists of both directed and undirected edges. We give an integer linear programming formulation for this problem and then show that the extreme points of its linear relaxation polyhedron are all half-integral. keywords: Chinese postman problem, half-integrality, graph, flow

This research revised Wong and Law’s (2002) Emotional Intelligence Scale (WLEIS), and specifically examined the feasibility of its use with Chinese university students. The participants were 1458 university students in two cities in China (Beijing and Shandong province) and results showed that the Chinese version of the WLEIS retained a four-factor structure. The scale had acceptable reliabilit...

ewangelyōn zīndag is one of the mani’s own writhings in syraic. this book is quoted in iranian manichaean, greek, coptic, latain, chinese, and islamic texts.the complet quotation comes in greeks kӧlner mani-codex(cmc) and coptic ones. iranian texts of ewangelyōn zīndag come in middle persain, parthian and soghdian fragments. after this are the chinese fragments. islamic texts are sorely very de...

Economic reform and liberalization in China have affected many institutional obstacles constraining the development and growth of Chinese small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). Using a firm-level data set that comprises all “above-scale” Chinese industrial enterprises for the period of 1995 to 2003, I investigate the patterns of entry and exit of Chinese SMEs and relate these patterns to the...