We describe a CRF based system for word-level language identification of code-mixed text. Our method uses lexical, contextual, character n-gram, and special character features, and therefore, can easily be replicated across languages. Its performance is benchmarked against the test sets provided by the shared task on code-mixing (Solorio et al., 2014) for four language pairs, namely, EnglishSpa...

This study investigates the interrelationships between leadership styles, employee’s commitment to change, and organizational performance in a Nepali context. For this crosssectional study, data were collected from employees working in a large technology-based organization. Regression analyses were employed to test the hypothesized relationships. The findings suggested that there is a significa...

A multilingual person writing a sentence or a piece of text tends to switch between languages s/he is proficient in. This alteration between languages, commonly known as code-switching, presents us with the problem of determining the correct language of each word in the text. My method uses a variety of techniques based upon the observed differences in the formation of words in these languages....

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Corydalis dubia is used in Bhutanese traditional medicine as a febrifuge and for treating infections in the blood, liver and bile which correlate to the signs and symptoms of malarial and microbial infections. AIM OF THE STUDY To validate the ethnopharmacological uses of the plant and to discover potential new therapeutic drug leads. MATERIALS AND METHODS C. d...

[1] Glacierized change in the Himalayas affects riverdischarge, hydro-energy and agricultural production, and Glacial Lake Outburst Flood potential, but its quantification and extent of impacts remains highly uncertain. Here we present conservative, comprehensive and quantitative predictions for glacier area and meltwater flux changes in Bhutan, monsoonal Himalayas. In particular, we quantify t...

Teaching a Jacobean British text such as The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster to the Bhutanese students was real challenge deals with world class and gender hierarchy. Living in Buddhist country, where even killing animals for food is prohibited Gross National Happiness prioritized, psychological trauma violent gory events portrayed play appalled students. could not imagine female subjugation, ...

Of the four principal categories of indoor pollution (combustion products, chemicals, radon and biologicals), research in developing countries has focused on combustion-generated pollutants, and principally those from solid-fuel-fired cooking and heating stoves. Such stoves are used in more than half the world's households and have been shown in many locations to produce high indoor concentrati...