Some features of the morphology of Swahili are discussed from the point of view of mechanizing a dictionary. A preliminary program is described. To the best of my knowledge, no work has previously been carried out on the mechanical translation of any Bantu language. This note is therefore a first suggestion of a possible basis for a scheme for the mechanical translation of Swahili into English....

This paper describes the techniques used for our system participating in the Document Understanding Conference 2006. We describe a new system, built from scratch, that focuses primarily on collecting models of possible answers for each question from the Internet, and applying those models to select the answer sentences from the documents in the collection. The system performed averagely in the ...

The Malaysian government has long recognized the significance of mastering English language among its citizenry. planned, and subsequently, implemented many policies to ensure Malaysians master language. Although civil servants have a strong desire perform their duties more efficiently, poor communication skills become major concern in this regard. Therefore, research aims investigate common er...

BACKGROUND The present paper discusses the lexical and grammatical peculiarities of English language medical case reports, taking into account their communicative purposes and intentions. METHODS The objective of the research is to clarify the principal mechanisms of producing an effective English language medical case report and thus to provide recommendations and guidelines for medical prof...

Abstract This article outlines the strategies for expressing focus in Northern Amis (Formosan). Three types of constructions are examined: cleft constructions, markers and emphatic lengthening. Focus by clefting is subject to well-known nominative-only constraint on extraction relativization found Formosan Philippine type languages (Keenan & Comrie 1977), such that a clefted constituent mus...