All forms of literature are a reflection of the society of which the writer is a part. They mirror the author's particular culture even though a specific piece of literary work may make only a small portion of society its central focus or audience. This does not exclude "escapist" literature because culture determines the manner in which fantasies are developed and the form and direction which ...

The 22 genera and 64 species of rodents (Muridae: Murinae) distributed in the Philippine Islands provide a unique opportunity to study patterns and processes of diversification in island systems. Over 90% of these rodent species are endemic to the archipelago, but the relative importance of dispersal from the mainland, dispersal within the archipelago, and in situ differentiation as explanation...

AutoCor is a method for the automatic acquisition and classification of corpora of documents in closely-related languages. It is an extension and enhancement of CorpusBuilder, a system that automatically builds specific minority language corpora from a closed corpus, since some Tagalog documents retrieved by CorpusBuilder are actually documents in other closely-related Philippine languages. Aut...

In this paper, we present what we have attempted towards 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 system. We also discuss our experiments on...

This critical review essay is a chapter-by-chapter evaluation of a book that examines the writings of Europeans about Philippine languages from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It cites the book’s strengths, supplies counterarguments, provides clarifications, and offers background information and additional literature. The essay speaks highly of the book’s merits; it provides archival m...

In 1925, Yale professor George Counts observed key problems in Philippine basic education that, sadly, resonate with the issues plaguing the Philippine education system. Half of the school-aged children in the 1920s were outside the reach of schools. Pupil performance was generally low in subjects that relied on English although achievement in math and science was at par with the average perfor...

This paper aims to examine the generic structures and linguistic properties of ads in Philippine magazines. Taken from the Corpus of Asian Magazine Advertising: The Philippine Database, the corpus consists of seventy-four ads for consumer nondurables such as medicines, vitamins and food supplements, and cosmetic/beauty/personal hygiene products. The study found that the ads demonstrated prefere...