This study examined the association between English language proficiency and health outcomes in a regional probability sample (n = 205) of elderly Chinese and Korean immigrants. Data support that these two Asian ethnic subgroups differ in English proficiency and health-related quality of life. Chinese and Korean elders had poorer health than the national norms, and poor English proficiency was ...

This paper describes our second participation in an evaluation campaign involving the Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English languages (NTCIR-5). Our participation is motivated by four objectives: 1) study the retrieval performances of various IR models for these languages; 2) compare the relative retrieval effectiveness of bigram and automatic wordsegmenting approaches for Chinese and Japanese ...

in goal of our participation in the NTCIR op is to evaluate relatively simple yet al methods for CLIR using Korean queries lish and Chinese documents. We employed ary-based query translation methods for cases but with different translation ity resolution techniques. The KoreanCLIR was quite successful, but the -Chinese CLIR resulted in unexpectedly rformance. While our analysis is still in s, w...

This paper describes our Korean-Chinese cross-language information retrieval system. Our system uses a bi-lingual dictionary to perform query translation. We expand our bilingual dictionary by extracting words and their translations from the Wikipedia site, an online encyclopedia. To resolve the problem of translating Western people’s names into Chinese, we propose a transliteration mapping met...

The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of culture and communication style (explicit versus implicit) on people’s reactions on recommendations in intercultural collaboration. The experimental results from three intercultural collaboration teams were studied: Chinese-American, Chinese-German, and Chinese-Korean. The results indicate that Chinese participants showed more positive...

The purpose of this study was to assess the current status of suicide behavior and to examine the association between hopeless feelings, suicidal behavior and components of the WHO Quality-of-Life-BREF instrument among college students (n=1,217) in China, Thailand, and Korea. Results showed 3.7% Thai, 10% Chinese, and 13.2% Korean students exhibited suicidal behavior in the past 12 months. Most...

All Han-based scripts (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) possess similar visual characteristics. Hence system development for identification of Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts from a single document page is quite challenging. It is noted that a Han-based document page might also have Roman script in them. A multi-script OCR system dealing with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Roman scripts, dem...

Chinese and Korean protests over “revisionist” Japanese histories of World War II are well known. The impact of contested Chinese and US histories of the Korean War on US-China relations today has received less attention. More broadly, there has been little research seeking to systematically explore just how history textbook controversies matter for international relations. This article experim...

This paper describes our Korean-Chinese cross-language information retrieval system for NTCIR-6. Our system uses a bilingual dictionary to perform query translation. We expand our bilingual dictionary by extracting words and their translations from the Wikipedia site, an online encyclopedia. To resolve the problem of translating Western people's names into Chinese, we propose a transliteration ...