Automatic Language Identification of written texts is a well-established area of research in Computational Linguistics. Stateof-the-art algorithms often rely on n-gram character models to identify the correct language of texts, with good results seen for European languages. In this paper we propose the use of a character n-gram model and a word n-gram language model for the automatic classifica...

Abstract Background and Aims Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a leading cause of morbidity mortality worldwide, with African descendants being at increased risk occurrence progression to end-stage renal (ESRD). However, the burden CKD ESRD in continent still largely conjectural access treatment restricted those countries. Africa contributes <10% total replacement therapy (RRT) patients ma...

Objective: To cross-culturally adapt the Duke Activity Status Index (DASI) for use in Brazil and evaluate the reproducibility of the new (Brazilian Portuguese-language) version. Methods: We selected stable patients with clinical and spirometric diagnosis of COPD. Initially, the DASI was translated into Brazilian Portuguese, and the cross-cultural adaptation was performed by an expert committee....

Based on claims in the literature that relevant differences can be found in the lexical choices of translated and non-translated language, this paper sets out to examine potential differences between translated and non-translated texts of the same language with respect to the way words are combined in order to convey meaning. The primary issue under investigation is whether these two varieties ...

Several factors like pupils' characteristics, school conditions and family context have been pointed out in the literature as being linked to academic achievement. Regarding the latter, family socio-economic status and parental support have been identified as determining variables on success at school. The current study analyses the influence of family support on the achievement of school child...

OBJECTIVES The University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test, a test of olfactory function that is widely used by otolaryngologists, geriatricians, and neurologists, has been translated into more than a dozen languages. In some instances, cultural and socioeconomic factors have necessitated changes in the odorant items or the response alternatives to make the test scores congruent with N...

AIM To translate the Japanese Kihon Checklist (frailty index) into the Portuguese language, and to validate the use of the checklist for the assessment of the elderly Brazilian population. METHODS A semantic analysis was carried out, along with pretesting of bilingual participants. The checklist was validated against the Edmonton Frail Scale. RESULTS A total of 188 Brazilian older adults (m...

For our participation in this CLEF evaluation campaign, the first objective was to propose and evaluate various indexing and search strategies for the Hungarian language in order to produce better retrieval effectiveness than language-independent approach (n-gram). Using both a new stemmer including some derivational suffixes removals, and a more aggressive automatic decompounding scheme, we we...

The paper presents a study on the translation into Portuguese of the demonstrative pronoun this, whenever used as an anaphor. The study relies on the analysis of a sample of tokens collected in a parallel English-Portuguese bilingual corpus containing literary texts and international law texts, as well as technical and scientific materials. Only tokens appearing in texts originally produced in ...

Promoting equity, equal opportunities to all and social inclusion of people with disabilities is a concern of modern societies at large and a key topic in the agenda of European Higher Education. Despite all the progress, we cannot ignore the fact that the conditions provided by the society for the deaf are still far from being perfect. The communication with deaf by means of written text is no...