Due in large part to the popularity and global nature of the Web, multi-lingual issues in computers is finally beginning to attract serious attention, from users and developers alike. At the Software Labs in NTT, we are involved in a project that confronts multi-lingual issues in a big way. Namely, we are building software designed to self-configure a global distributed search infrastructure. T...

Lingual lipase is usually secreted from von Ebner's glands, although there is great variation between species. Lingual lipase is thought to be an auxiliary enzyme for fat digestion and absorption in mammals; however, the reason for lipolysis in the oral cavity is not known. We focused on the gustatory sense and investigated the significance of lingual lipase in the perception of a fat taste by ...

The object of the study was to assess the incidence of lingual nerve sensory loss during removal of impacted mandibular third molar teeth, and the effect of retention of the lingual plate on the incidence. The subjects were 395 patients, of whom 362 completed the study. Removal of 504 impacted wisdom teeth with retention of the lingual plate was performed. Results showed that 381 (76%) of the t...

Η παρούσα μελέτη ερευνά την κατάκτηση των γλωσσικών αποφρακτικών συμφώνων της Ελληνικής από τα παιδιά. Προηγούμενες έρευνες έχουν επισημάνει ότι η κατάκτηση ενός συμφώνου μπορεί να επηρεάζεται από τη συχνότητα εμφάνισής του στη γλώσσα καθώς και το φωνηεντικό του περιβάλλον. Στα Ιαπωνικά, π.χ., έχει αναφερθεί ότι το / k/ κατακτάται πριν από το /t/ και αυτό μπορεί να σχετίζεται με (α) τη μεγαλύτε...

In an ideal cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) system, a user query would generate a search over documents in a different language and the relevant results would be presented in the user’s language. In practice, CLIR systems are typically evaluated by judging result relevance in the document language, to factor out the effects of translating the results using machine translation (MT). I...

At NTCIR-9, we participated in the cross-lingual link discovery (Crosslink) task. In this paper we describe our approaches to discovering Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) cross-lingual links for English documents in Wikipedia. Our experimental results show that a link mining approach that mines the existing link structure for anchor probabilities and relies on the “translation” using cross-l...

The lingual nerve is a terminal branch of the mandibular nerve. It is varied in its course and in its relationship to the mandibular alveolar crest, submandibular duct and also the related muscles in the floor of the mouth. This study aims to understand the course of the lingual nerve from the molar area until its insertion into the tongue muscle. This cadaveric research involved the study of 1...