We propose and evaluate a new paradigm for machine translation of low resource languages via the learned surface transduction and paraphrase of multilingual glosses.

This critical literature review provides study details for 36 studies examining the effect of glossing language acquisition among English learners (ELLs). Useful tables include specificity participants, gloss types, target vocabulary items and text information about all studies. An analysis these reveals that is an effective means to enhance reading comprehension ELLs. However, language—whether...

Abstract As King James I moved to censor Puritan opponents, he called upon John Donne defend his policies from the pulpit. text‚ then‚ for a sermon at St Paul’s, chose Lamentations 4:20, notorious crux. The Geneva Bible glosses ‘the anointed’ in this verse as good king, Josiah; Calvin Institutes bad Zedekiah. phrase breath of our nostrils’, an allusion Genesis 2:7, introduces further complicati...

Ateji (当て字) pertains to one of the unique uses language in manga that is constructed with two types Japanese scripts. Its one-of-a-kind structure presents challenges translation, but feasible solutions have hardly been explored. Drawing on ateji categories, social semiotic multimodal approach and translation procedures, this study performs qualitative content analysis identify practical ways re...

This paper investigates the treatment of antonymy in Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary (2003) in order to find out what kinds of headwords are provided with antonyms as part of their definitions and also discusses the principles for antonym inclusion in the entries. CCALED includes canonical antonyms such as good/bad and dead/alive, as well as more contextually restricted pa...