This paper presents a pattern-based method that can be used to infer adjectival scales, such as 〈lukewarm,warm, hot〉, from a corpus. Specifically, the proposed method uses lexical patterns to automatically identify and order pairs of scalemates, followed by a filtering phase in which unrelated pairs are discarded. For the filtering phase, several different similarity measures are implemented an...

In the past, engineers involved in the design of electronic systems did not concern themselves with the cost effectiveness of their design decisions; that was someone else’s job. Today the world is different. Every engineer in the design process for an electronic product is also tasked with understanding the economic tradeoffs associated with their decisions. Nowhere is the need for economic an...

We examined whether input modality and individual differences in attention motivation influence second language (L2) learning via syntactic priming. In an online study, we compared the primed production of English passives by 235 L2 native speakers reading-to-writing versus listening-to-writing conditions. measured immediate priming (producing immediately after exposure to passives) short- long...

Zusammenfassung Um das Klima eines Archivlagers passiv zu steuern, müssen die Innentemperatur und Luftfeuchte je nach Jahreszeit variieren (z. B. 14 0 C 45 % im Winter, 22 55 Sommer). Eine mechanische Belüftung eine minimale Heizung reichen dann aus, um Raumfeuchte kontrollieren. Die Prinzipien des Low-Tech-Klimamanagements werden hier vorgestellt mit Hilfe der Erfahrungen Staatsarchivs Wallis ...

Persian is one of the Indo-European languages which has borrowed its script from Arabic, a member of Semitic language family. Since Persian and Arabic scripts are so similar, problems arise when we want to process an electronic text. In this paper, some of the common problems faced experimentally in developing a corpus for Persian are discussed. The sources of the problems are the Persian scrip...