Lingual thyroid is a developmental anomaly caused by undescended thyroid tissue at the base of the tongue. Lingual thyroid is found predominantly in females and comprises 90% of ectopic thyroid tissue (1). In the majority of patients, the lingual thyroid is the only functioning thyroid gland tissue. Therefore early diagnosis with imaging techniques is clinically important to avoid permanent hyp...

The practice of cross-lingual transfer of speech technology is of increasing concern as the demand for recognition systems in multiple languages grows. Previous work has proved that: firstly, if there is a big difference between the source language and the target language, cross-lingual adaptation may not outperform scratch training even if the training set is limited; secondly, cross-lingual s...

This article deals with the problem of Cross-Lingual Text Categorization (CLTC), which arises when documents in different languages must be classified according to the same classification tree. We describe practical and cost-effective solutions for automatic Cross-Lingual Text Categorization, both in case a sufficient number of training examples is available for each new language and in the cas...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the relationship of the lingual nerve with the adjacent anatomical structures of the mandibular third molar region, influencing the dentist to be aware of the variability of these relationships. MATERIAL AND METHODS Samples of 24 human corpse half-heads were selected and divided according with the presence or absence of the mandibular third molars. The lingual ...

In this paper, we build mono-lingual and cross-lingual emotion recognition systems and report performance on English and German databases. The emotion recognition system uses biologically inspired auditory attention features together with a neural network for learning the mapping between features and emotion classes. We first build mono-lingual systems for both Berlin Database of Emotional Spee...

Learning cross-lingual semantic representations of relations from textual data is useful for tasks like cross-lingual information retrieval and question answering. So far, research has been mainly focused on cross-lingual entity linking, which is confined to linking between phrases in a text document and their corresponding entities in a knowledge base but cannot link to relations. In this pape...

OBJECTIVES To describe oropharyngeal stenosis (OPS), a potential complication of multilevel, single-stage upper airway surgery involving lingual tonsillectomy in children, and to discuss the manner in which OPS may be managed successfully. DESIGN Case series with an average follow-up of 12 months. SETTING Tertiary care children's hospital. PATIENTS Medical charts were reviewed for 104 pat...

A Comparison in Reading Ability and Achievement between Mono-Lingual and Bilingual Fifth Graders Y. Adib, Ph.D. Z. Sharifi N. Mahmoodi To  compare both the reading ability and academic achievement among Farsi speaking mono-lingual fifth graders and their bilingual Aazari and Kordi counterparts, three samples of 153, 132, and 145 (total 430) such students from three cities o...