... Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, pages 287–294,Sydney, July 2006.c2006 Association for Computational LinguisticsLow-cost EnrichmentofSpanishWordNet with ... sufficient for the purpose of MT.AcknowledgementsThis research has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (ALIADOTIC2002-04447-C02) and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science ... work we approach the task of enriching Spanish WordNet with automatically translatedglosses1. The source glosses for these translationsare taken from the English WordNet (Fellbaum,1Glosses...
... apreci´eisVOWELThe sounds of a language that are not classified asCONSONANTS, and which, in the case of Spanish, canform aSYLLABLE. Spanish has fiveVOWELS: a, e, i, o,uxvASTUDENT GRAMMAR OF SPANISH Finally ... apronunciation of twoSYLLABLES of two distinctV OWELsounds where normally you have aDIPHTHONG,e.g.cig¨ue˜naDIMINUTIVELetters added to the end of a word to indicate themeaning of “small.” It often ... levels of language.)DictionariesThe Oxford Spanish Dictionary, Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press, 2000(Excellent coverage ofSpanish American, but you need to be a little wary sinceSpanish...
... coachesUnderstandably, from the point of view of pronunciation, the plural of el lord is los lores.334VerbsSince the endings ofSpanish verbs, like those of Italian verbs and, to a lesser extent,French ... specimen/specimens1.3 More on the formation of pluralsi In the formation of plurals, the place of the stress and the sound of the finalconsonant of the singular remain the same, and the spelling ... we cut off the endings ar, er, ir from the infinitive, we have the stem of the verbto which endings of various moods and tenses are to be added. This excludes the futureand conditional. Spanish...
... The size of the classes at the lowerlevel of the classification hierarchy varies from 2 to176.3.2 MaterialsThe input to the algorithm is a description of each of the verbs in the form of a vector ... consid-ered its arguments.We establish a set of 11 possible Spanish subcat-egorisation frames. These are the plausible combi-nations of a maximum of 2 of the following con-stituents: nominal phrases, ... for thistask. MLE is calculated as the ratio of the frequency of + over the frequency of .Pairs of verb+pattern that do not have a probabil-ity of co-occurring together higher than a certainthreshold...
... for other shareholders of banks. Professionalism of management. Fit and proper criteria for SSB themselves have been strengthened. Members of the board of directors of SSBs are now subject ... in the governance of the commercial banks that have originated from the spin-off of SSBs, and would clarify the respective responsibilities of the directors of SSBs and of the commercial banks, ... this document are those of the staff team and do not necessarily reflect the views of the government of Spain or the Executive Board of the IMF. The policy of publication of staff reports and...
... of each individual factor, and , to the total variance of the return of bank i’s stock is given by its coefficient squared times the ratio of the variance of that factor over the variance of ... important source of bank revenue in spite of the rising relevance of fee-based income. The exposure of financial institutions to IRR has been the focus of an extensive body of research since ... have been measured at the end of the year. The panel is comprised of 13×23 (number of years × number of banks) observations for each 8 Analogously to the case of fixed income securities, a...
... time trends of physical activity in the last 20 years in older Spanish people. Therefore, the current study examines timetrends in prevalence of PA for adults a ged 65 and overusing Spanish National ... relationship dueto the lack of longitudinal follow-up of the same indi-viduals. Nevertheless, the use of a national population-based survey permits the inclusion of representativenational sample ... theprevalence of LTPA declined from 29.8% in 1994 to23.7% in 2007 in the United States.In Spain, more than 40% of older adults are sedentary[34-37]. Although the percentage of people who practiceLTPA...
... field of InternationalHumanitarian Law, the four 1948 Geneva conventions (Art. 49 of I – BOE of 23.7.52, Art.50 of II – BOE of 26.8.52, Art. 129 of III – BOE of 5.9.52 and 146 of IV – BOE of 2.9.52)and ... Autónomas(Superior Court of Justice of the Autonomous Regions Judgment)Recent Modifications in the Regulation ofSpanish Nationality 712. The prevalence of the person ofSpanish origin as the holder of rights ... emigrants of Spanish origin and those ofSpanish descent. These discriminations are howeverused by the maker of Act 36/2002 to create a different regulatory framework for thetransmission of Spanish...
... ofSpanish literacy on English literacy vary with respect to level ofSpanish literacy attained? (2) Does the effect ofSpanish literacy on English literacy vary with respect to the level of ... magnitude of the effect ofSpanish reading on English reading was different for students at the higher end of the distribution of English oral proficiency than for those at lower end of the distribution. ... effect ofSpanish literacy on English literacy varied with respect to level of oral English proficiency. To address this question, we evaluated whether the magnitude of the effect of Spanish...
... through the discourse of the narrative. This study will offer a novel examination of the redefinition of the concept of gender reflected and portrayed through the medium of film. Alredefinition ... Twenty-First Century Spanish Cinema: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar The death of General Francisco Franco on the 20th November 1975 and the abolition of censorship in Spanish Cinema shortly ... Smith. In Laws of Desire,15 Smith undertakes an incisive analysis of the portrayals of homosexuality in both Spanish writing and film. With a large part of this research canon...
... Hooper’s The New Spaniards, 443. SPANISHNESS IN THE SPANISH NOVEL AND CINEMA OF THE 20TH-21ST CENTURY . 3 individual who is a native speaker ofSpanish or is ofSpanish descent—including Hispanic-Americans. ... exploration of the general concept of “Spanishness” as all things related to Spain, specifically as the multiple meanings of “Spanishness” and the different ways of being Spanish are depicted in 20th-21st ... alignment of space and time is here dislodged, while the break of the traditional links of cause and affect leads to a new breed of signs wherein the “power of the false” and the principle of “indiscernibility”...
... ElThemercadomarketinternacionalinternationaldel of thecaf´e.coffee.‘The international coffee market.’Long-held claims that equate the definite arti-cle with a specific category of meaning cannot behold. The ... grammaticized defi-nite article accounts for the large number of definite NPs attested in Spanish (column 2 inTable 1): 46% of the total. In the light of Bybee and Hopper’s (2001) claim that lan-guage ... number of simpledefinite NPs with respect to the number of simple determined NPs. Secondly, we set athreshold of 0.7, considering as storage units8Only noun types occurring a minimum of ten...
... number of transactions and prices of cars of dierent age in the second—hand market. Also, considera-tion of the second—hand market would be desirable for evaluation of the consequences of making ... represents reported deregistration of cars aged L in year and S 31(L 1) denotes the stock of cars aged L 1 at the end of year 1. We compute the stock at the end of year starting froma ... morein both years–a total of 896,486 cars were actually deregistered alongthese two years–, giving a counterfactual simulation of the eect of Prever on car replacement of 92 ,517 cars for the...
... countenances, to the general effect of the picture. Then the proud display of all the panoplies of the court; the rich waving plumage of the crests; the lustre of the burnished shields andpolished ... asindicative of his feelings, or from the armorial bearings of his family. The colour of the spirited chargers of these challengers was snow white. Nothing could exceed the beauty of their proportions ... blue of night.The superstitious fears of Roque, as he saw the gloom increasing around, overcame his feelings of compassion, and he began to think of awakening Theodora, when the hollow sound of...
... of Section 3.Outline of the approachWe trained the SPE component using theMoses toolkit out of the box. With this setup, thefinal translation in French of a source sentence inItalian or Spanish ... the pres-tige of your position.The difference of impersonal pro-drop, on theother hand, is due to the Spanish use of an im-personal construction (2a.) with the “se” parti-cle. Spanish follows ... of a same syntactic feature inItalian and Spanish, ii) to evaluate the translation of null subjects into French, that is, a “non pro-drop” language; and, iii) to improve the transla-tion of...