This paper assesses the degree to which established practices in terminology can provide the translation industry with the lexical means to support mediation of information between languages, especially where such mediation involves modification. The effects of term variation, collocation and sublanguage phraseology present problems of term choice to the translator. Current term resources canno...

The article reports the development of a speech corpus for Estonian text-to-speech synthesis based on unit selection. Introduced are the principles of the corpus as well as the procedure of its creation, from text compilation to corpus analysis and text recording. Also described are the choices made in the process of producing a text of 400 sentences, the relevant lexical and morphological pref...

We describe our contribution to the Generating from Knowledge Bases (KBgen) challenge. Our system is learned in a bottom-up fashion, by inducing a probabilistic grammar that represents alignments between strings and parts of a knowledge graph. From these alignments, we extract information about the linearization and lexical choices associated with the target knowledge base, and build a simple g...

Using data from widely circulated SMSes the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), this paper provides a lexical-syntactic analysis of language use by government agency during COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. The framework used is dyadic, encompassing tenets semantic theory (which deals extensively with lexical choices as well determination meanings attached to them) and Systemic Functional Gr...

the present paper aims to examine the role of frequency lexicon in assessing lexical proficiency of persian learners. addressing the frequency distribution pattern of persian words, the research which is conducted in corpus-based method studies the relationship between words and lexical proficiency as well as derives the frequency lexicon from persian corpus. to do so, formal and colloquial per...

Few studies have assessed the dietary Practices of people with diabetes during Ramadan (1). A sub study of Ramadan prospective diabetes study (2) which was conducted at the outpatient department of Baqai Institute of Diabetology and endocrinology, Karachi Pakistan in 2009 analyzed the food choices of patients with diabetes during Ramadan. Several irregularities regarding dietary intake and food...

Near-synonyms are words which share certain semantic similarities, yet differ in their contextual usage (e.g. acquire vs obtain, evaluate judge). The current study compares lexical preferences and rationalizations for choosing near-synonyms of advanced C1 level non-native speakers English (n = 45) to those given by native 58). data has been collected using a forced-choice questionnaire also inc...

The present study aims at investigating the effect of different levels of lexical collocational density on EFL learners’ reading comprehension. Eighty sophomore students with different levels of proficiency studying at  Zand Institute of Higher Education in Shiraz, Iran were chosen from among eighty five learners based on their score distribution on a reduced TOEFL test constructed by Education...

The revelations of the Greek athlete Sofia Bekatorou, a sailing champion, that she had been victim sexual harassment by high sports official were beginning #MeToo in January 2021. triggered, among other reactions, or supportive responses on one hand, and openly indirectly misogynistic comments other, whether press social networks. In present study, we examine several hypotheses put forward with...