The technology is also being used to translate signs from Spanish into English, scan bar codes in stores and help solve Sudoku puzzles.
Twelve Chinese college students who were learning English were scanned when they performed language switching tasks (naming pictures in their first [L1, Chinese] and second [L2, English] languages according to response cues).
Building the knowledge base requires humans to teach computers key concepts from curated articles; with modest online training, anyone who reads English can scan research papers for key terms names of genes, proteins, diseases, and drugs—and use online marking tools to document relationships between them (for example, drug X treats disease Y).
Goggles can scan English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and, a recent addition, Russian text.
Joshua Steele's Prosodia Rationalis (1779) is an early attempt to scan English verse by means of musical notation.
Behind her tough language, I knew, was a desire that I should cultivate more practical aptitudes than the ability to scan English verse or explain the Romantic Fallacy.
A number of prosodists, taking their lead from the work of Joshua Steele and Sidney Lanier, attempted to use musical notation to scan English verse.
English participants were scanned at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, London, UK, with 40 axial slices, acquired with 3 × 3 × 3 mm voxels.
The databases MEDLINE, AIDSLINE and EMBASE were searched from 1996 onwards for relevant studies in English, and a scan of the WHO and UNAIDS Web sites was also done to obtain additional information on global HIV/AIDS cases and trends.
We further divided the Greek English bilinguals into those who were scanned in English only (n = 10) and those who were scanned in both English and Greek (n = 11).
