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Improved Sentence Alignment Improved Sentence Alignment for Building a Parallel Subtitle Corpus J¨org Tiedemann University of Groningen Abstract In this paper on-going work of creating an extensive multilingual parallel corpus of movie subtitles is presented. The corpus currently contains roughly 23,000 pairs of aligned subtitles covering about 2,700 movies in 29 languages. Subtitles mainly consist of transcribed speech, s.. 더보기
Parallel corpora word alignment and applications Parallel corpora word alignment and applications 더보기
DIY Local Learner Corpora: Bridging Gaps Between Theory and Practice DIY Local Learner Corpora: Bridging Gaps Between Theory and Practice 더보기
Using Comparable Corpora to Adapt a Translation Model to Domains Using Comparable Corpora to Adapt a Translation Model to Domains Hiroyuki Kaji, Takashi Tsunakawa, Daisuke Okada Department of Computer Science, Shizuoka University 3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu-shi, 432-8011, Japan {kaji, tuna}@inf.shizuoka.ac.jp Abstract Statistical machine translation (SMT) requires a large parallel corpus, which is available only for restricted language pairs and domains... 더보기
Measuring Vocabulary Levels of English Textbooks and Tests Using a BNC Lemmatised High Frequency Word List Measuring Vocabulary Levels of English Textbooks and Tests Using a BNC Lemmatised High Frequency Word List Related research Measuring the Vocabulary of College General English Textbooks and English-medium Textbooks of Business Core Courses Wenhua Hsu in Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (2009) Save reference to library · Related research 1 reader Using a word list as a focus for vo.. 더보기
Estimating naturalness in Japanese English textbooks Estimating naturalness in Japanese English textbooks Proceedings of the 12th Conference of PanPacific Association of Applied Linguistics (2007) 더보기
The Role of Variety Recognition in Japanese University Students' Attitudes Towards English Speech Varieties The Role of Variety Recognition in Japanese University Students' Attitudes Towards English Speech Varieties by Robert M McKenzie 더보기
Educated Japanese English: expanding oral/aural core vocabulary Educated Japanese English: expanding oral/aural core vocabulary Having established the worlds first undergraduate college of world Englishes, and in an Expanding-Circle setting, we have created the pilot environment for a new type of ELT curriculum. We must address the creation of a curriculum that is pervasively informed by the philosophy of world Englishes at both a macro and micro level. Cert.. 더보기
Using A Japanese-English Parallel Corpus for Teaching English Vocabulary to Beginning-Level Students Using A Japanese-English Parallel Corpus for Teaching English Vocabulary to Beginning-Level Students Kiyomi Chujo, Masao Utiyama, and Shinji Miura Abstract Although recognized by educators as a potentially useful tool, until now corpus application has been limited because the English concordance examples retrieved have been difficult for beginning-level learners to understand. The recent develop.. 더보기
Reading materials for learning TOEIC vocabulary based on corpus data Reading materials for learning TOEIC vocabulary based on corpus data It is agreed that presenting words in context rather than isolating them from context enhances learners’ acquisition of vocabulary. For example, several recent studies have found positive evidence supporting the use of explicit vocabulary instruction in conjunction with reading (Paribakht & Wesche 1997). A great deal of vocabul.. 더보기