This paper presents the work being done so far on the building of online corpus for Philippine languages. As for the status, the Philippine Languages Online Corpora (PLOC) now boasts a 250,000-word written corpus of the eight major languages in the archipelago. Some of the issues confronting the corpus building and future directions for this project are likewise discussed in this paper.

Universal Screening Maria Jasmin Marinela Bartolome, MD; Oliver Sanchez, MD; Marissa Alejandria, MD, MSc, FPCP, FPSMID; Jodor Lim, MD, FPCP, FPSMID; Angel Bandola, MD; Richelle Duque,; Edsel Maurice Salvana, MD, DTM&H; Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of the Philippines Philippine General Hospital, Manila, Philippines; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, S...

– We describe a new species of Luperosaurus from the Sierra Madre Mountain Range of northern Luzon Island, Philippines. Luperosaurus kubli, new species, is distinguished from all Philippine Luperosaurus by the combination of its large body size (105.4 mm for the holotype), reduced interdigital webbing, cutaneous expansions on limbs limited to only the posterior margins, and by the complete abse...

We present the diverse research activities on Philippine languages from all over the country, with focus on the Center for Language Technologies of the College of Computer Studies, De La Salle University, Manila, where majority of the work are conducted. These projects include the formal representation of Philippine languages and the processes involving these languages. Language representation ...

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We review the Philippine frogs of the genus Leptobrachuim. All previous treatments have referred Philippine populations to L. hasseltii, a species we restrict to Java and Bali, Indonesia. We use external morphology, body proportions, color pattern, advertisement calls, and phylogenetic analysis of molecular sequence data to show that Philippine populations of Leptobrachium represent three disti...

The three-dimensional (3-D) P-wave attenuation (Qp ) structure beneath Kanto, Japan, is estimated by using a large number of waveform data. Corner frequencies of earthquakes are initially calculated from spectral ratios of S-coda waves, followed by an inversion to simultaneously determine attenuation terms and frequency-dependent site amplification factors. The attenuation terms are then invert...

The Bantay-Wika (Language Watch) project was started in 1994 by the University of the Philippines (UP) Sentro ng Wikang Filipino1 (SWF) in order to track for long periods of time how the Philippine national language is being used and how it develops, particularly in the Philippine media. The first phase of this project, from 1994 to 2004, involved the manual collection and tallying of frequency...

In this paper, we present what we have attempted towards connecting the Philippine islands through the digitalization of the Philippine languages and their respective applications, and what we intend to do in the future. We present the development of a multi-engine bi-directional English-Filipino Machine Translation (MT) system, and the building of various language resources and tools for this ...

Southeast Asia’s complex geological history and highly variable geography and ecology provide an ideal template for testing the effects of geographical change on phylogenetic processes (Brown & Guttman, 2002; Evans et al., 2003; Jansa et al., 2006; Esselstyn et al., 2009). More specifically, the Philippine archipelago, spanning components of the Sundaland–Eurasian and Biodiversity Institute and...