Unlike multilingual classrooms, where the variety of L1 backgrounds contributes to phonological diversity, monolingual classrooms require artificial input in form either explicit or implicit instruction prepare students for “real world” international communication. Such not only increases intelligibility non-standard accents but also promotes greater tolerance diversity World Englishes. This pa...

Objectives: To develop a system that accepts cross-lingual spoken reviews consisting of two to four languages, translate target language text for Indic languages namely Kannada, Hindi, Telugu and/or English termed as cross lingual speech identification and translation system. Methods: Hybridization software engineering models are used in natural pre-processing such noise removal splitting obtai...

Recent years have witnessed considerable advances in information retrieval for European languages other than English. We give an overview of commonly used techniques and we analyze them with respect to their impact on retrieval effectiveness. The techniques considered range from linguistically motivated techniques, such as morphological normalization and compound splitting, to knowledge-free ap...

This paper presents a report on our participation in the CLEF-2009 monolingual and bilingual ad hoc TEL@CLEF tasks involving three different languages: English, French and German. Language modeling is adopted as the underlying information retrieval model. While the data collection is extremely sparse, smoothing is particular important when estimating a language model. The main purpose of the mo...

Query enhancement with domain-specific metadata (thesaurus terms) is analyzed for monolingual and bilingual retrieval on the GIRT social science collection. We describe our technique of Entry Vocabulary Modules, which associates query words with thesaurus terms and suggest its use for monolingual as well as bilingual retrieval. Different weighting and merging schemes for adding keywords to quer...

This article describes the participation of the joint Elhuyar-IXA group in the ResPubliQA exercise at QA&CLEF. In particular, we participated in the English–English monolingual task and in the Basque–English crosslingual one. Our focus has been threefold: (1) to check to what extent information retrieval (IR) can achieve good results in passage retrieval without question analysis and answer val...

A monolingual environment offers a common language for the various activities supported by the system. Previous work shows how a monolingual environment may be created for carrying out the programming, command invocation, and debugging tasks. In this paper extensions to such an environment to also support editing are discussed. The role of editing is compared with the role of interactive progra...

Childhood exposure to heritage language has been found to be beneficial when relearning the language as an adult. However, it is not known whether the exposure to heritage language affects the dominant language of the heritage speaker. This study investigates if there is any influence of heritage language (i.e., Korean) on the dominant language (i.e., English) of second-generation Korean-Americ...