This presentation is primarily a demonstration of a working statistical machine translation system which translates Modern Standard Arabic into English.

Background. Given the importance of English a global language and one of the four official languages used in FIFA, it is essential to acquaint students who are specialised in Physical Education with English sport terminology. Objectives. This study aims to determine the knowledge level of physical education students in Saudi universities’ faculties and departments in relation to English sports...

English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) is a sub-field of Academic (EAP), itself applied linguistics. This article considers ERPP from world Englishes perspective, considering the question as to what sort appropriate ERPP: standardised model, preferred at present, or varietal, Englishes, which would take more account fact that majority scholars publishing their work in are no longer An...

Acoustic studies of several languages indicate that second-formant (F2) slopes in high vowels have opposing directions (independent of consonantal context): front [iː]-like vowels are produced with a rising F2 slope, whereas back [uː]-like vowels are produced with a falling F2 slope. The present study first reports acoustic measurements that confirm this pattern for the English variety of Stand...

Standard entity clustering systems commonly rely on mention (string) matching, syntactic features, and linguistic resources like English WordNet. When co-referent text mentions appear in different languages, these techniques cannot be easily applied. Consequently, we develop new methods for clustering text mentions across documents and languages simultaneously, producing cross-lingual entity cl...

This paper describes our approach to English-Korean transliteration in NEWS 2011 Shared Task on Machine Transliteration. We adopt the substring-based transliteration approach which group the characters of named entity in both source and target languages into substrings and then formulate the transliteration as a sequential tagging problem to tag the substrings in the source language with the su...

This paper assesses the impact of publishing abstracts in English in the Portuguese Linguistics Association (APL) Proceedings from 2001 to 2010. The study was carried out with a corpus of 137 abstracts, follows a Text Linguistics model inspired by the Interactionnisme Sociodiscoursif and links text features to the social practices and genre repertoires of this community. Quantitative data show ...