This is the first book on this subject in any language. This book consists of seven articles which describe and analyze images of Chinese women in a variety of genres, including folklore, poetry, fiction and drama, from early times to the present, in the works of both male and female writers. One of the main themes of this work is diversity; women in Chinese literature have a thousand faces and...

This paper focuses on the causality relation between US and the several Asia-pacific markets (Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, and Indonesia). We check the causality of the co-movement among the markets across Pacific by using Granger-Causality test, VAR, and event studying on unexpected high volatile period. Our tests show that U.S. and Japan have strong influence to other As...

In this paper we examine automated Chinese to English link discovery in Wikipedia and the effects of Chinese segmentation and Chinese to English translation on the hyperlink recommendation. Our experimental results show that the implemented link discovery framework can effectively recommend Chinese-toEnglish cross-lingual links. The techniques described here can assist bi-lingual users where a ...

The present article describes how scaffolding is implemented in an intelligent tutorial system call NTUs (Number Transcoding tUtorial System), and what are the results of the system tested empirically on a group of grade students in fostering their number concepts. To use NTUs. the system first analyzes a user’s errors on a number transcoding task, and the results of analysis are used to infer ...

Instrumental variables (IV) estimates of the effect of fertility on female labor supply have only been able to identify the causal effect of second and higherparity children. This study uses exogenous variation in fertility caused by the Chinese lunar calendar to identify the effect of the first child. Additionally, weighting formulas are presented to interpret IV estimates as weighted average ...

This paper aims at highlighting the complex lexico-semantic information entailed in Chinese shape classifiers. The study is based on a selection of the same as derived from extensive literature. The goal is to introduce shape information in wordnets in a comprehensive way starting by shape classifiers. The suggestion is to map them not just as information coercers, but also as lexical items (no...

This paper describes the Barcelona Media SMT system in the IWSLT 2009 evaluation campaign. The Barcelona Media system is an statistical phrase-based system enriched with source context information. Adding source context in an SMT system is interesting to enhance the translation in order to solve lexical and structural choice errors. The novel technique uses a similarity metric among each test s...

In this paper we address issues related to building a large-scale Chinese corpus. We try to answer four questions: (i) how to speed up annotation, (ii) how to maintain high annotation quality, (iii) for what purposes is the corpus applicable, and finally (iv) what future work we anticipate.

Readers of The Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal will have seen the numerous obituary notices of the late Dr. Charles Albert Calmette which have appeared in the Press. It is, therefore, unnecessary to refer at length to his younger days spent as a naval surgeon in Chinese waters or to his first entry into independent scientific study as a young bacteriologist picked out by Pasteur for special ...