This paper describes the SHEF submissions for the three sub-tasks of the Quality Estimation shared task of WMT17, namely: (i) a word-level prediction system using bilexical embeddings, (ii) a phrase-level labelling approach based on the word-level predictions, (iii) a sentencelevel prediction system using word embeddings and handcrafted baseline features. Results are promising for the sentence-...

Despite the title of this review essay, none of the four books under review adopts the word queer in its title. This serves as both an encouraging sign and a cautionary tale. This is encouraging because, as James Welker has pointed out recently, the horizon of queer studies has evolved and been decentered so rapidly that North America is no longer the only powerhouse, or the exclusive place of ...

American book publishing during the Second World War had to cope with a huge increase in demand for books coupled with scarcity of resources, especially paper rationing imposed by the War Production Board. Based on research in the Random House archives and focusing on the Modern Library series, this article examines how publishers coped with wartime challenges and opportunities. Random House gr...

This study explored nominalized expression types in an applied linguistics book and a biology book as 2 distinct disciplines. The books were carefully read, the nominalized expression types were identified, the frequencies of the nominalization types were counted, and eventually chi-square was administered. Results revealed no significant difference in using nominalization. Furthermore, the den...

ghestas-ol-atebba , written by noureddin mohammad ben abdollah shirazi, known as noureddin mohammad shirazi, an iranian physician, scholar and persian author in the indian subcontinent in the eleventh century a.h. he has some works such as alfazol-advieh, tebbe-darashekouhi, ghestas-ol-atebba  and etc. his book, ghestas-ol-atebba , has a simple prose and belongs to the saffavi period. this book...

the views of the thinkers about the position of the quran are different. some of them believes quran as a” miracle” and others as a”divine” book. the latter group thinks, the verses of the quran don’t confirm the theological thought of miraclousness. also, some scholars to confront to the “sarfah” theory, relied on “ijma al-ommah”. therefore the role of quran, as the original source of “miracle...

this study explored nominalized expression types in an applied linguistics book and a biology book as 2 distinct disciplines. the books were carefully read, the nominalized expression types were identified, the frequencies of the nominalization types were counted, and eventually chi-square was administered. results revealed no significant difference in using nominalization. furthermore, the den...