Acoustic measurements of the rhythm of Malay were made using a version the North Wind and the Sun passage translated into Malay, and these are compared with similar measurements for Standard Southern British English. The results suggest that Malay has more syllable-based rhythm than British English. However, caution is advisable in drawing this conclusion, as many of the decisions about syllabi...

This paper presents a minimally-supervised system capable of learning Malay affixation. In particular, the algorithm we describe focuses on identifying p-similar words, and building an affix inventory using a semantic-based approach. We believe that orthographic and semantic analyzes play complementary roles in extracting morphological relationships from text corpora. Using a limited Malay corp...

In this article, the authors discuss a mother tongue-based bilingual education (MTB BE) program designed to use Patani Malay (PM) or Thailand Melayu, as well as Thai, in the teaching and learning process at the preprimary and primary level, which is the level of compulsory education in Thailand. Many fear that the Thai education system is being used to destroy the local language and religious i...

This paper describes the prototype of an Interactive Tutoring system. The prototype enables a Malay monolingual user to generate computer-based tutorials without any programming knowledge, serves as a multiple domain tutor to English monolingual users who are learning Malay, and the prototype also incorporates an English-Malay translation ability. Based on reviews of previous work, such feature...

Patients with thalassemia intermedia have a mild anemia and survive without needing regular blood transfusions.1 Here we report two cases of Thai patients with β-thalassemia intermedia caused by homozygosity of hemoglobin Malay (Hb Malay; α2β219Asn-Ser)2 and compound heterozygosity of Hb Malay and hemoglobin E (Hb E; α2β226Glu-Lys). Both patients presented with a history of anemia with marked m...

This paper presents the design and performance of a Malay grapheme to phoneme (G2P) tool for generating the pronunciation dictionary for a Malay automatic speech recognition system (ASR). The G2P tool is a rule based system. It is flexible in adding and removing rules, and handling of English words. The G2P tool also contains morphological and syllable tool, which it uses to determine the pronu...

The objective of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Malay version of the 18-item Audit of Diabetes Dependent Quality of Life (the Malay ADDQOL). Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were systematically selected. The Malay ADDQOL linguistically validated from the 18-item English version ADDQOL was self-administered twice at a 1-we...

This study aims to determine the knowledge, understanding and acceptance among students from Public Institution of Higher Learning (PIHL) towards the institution of the Malay Rulers according to Federal Constitution in the context of ethnic relations in Malaysia. This study involved 422 respondents selected from four PIHLs. Data were collected through questionnaires which were then analyzed usi...

Research in natural language processing has increasingly focused on normalizing Twitter messages. Currently, while different well-defined approaches have been proposed for the English language, the problem remains far from being solved for other languages, such as Malay. Thus, in this paper, we propose an approach to normalize the Malay Twitter messages based on corpus-driven analysis. An archi...