Successful uses of MTurk for producing linguistic resources or performing evaluations at a low cost have been reported in the natural language processing (NLP) domain.
Despite success, several technical limitations of MTurk (48) previously noted in producing linguistic resources or performing NLP evaluations are worth noticing.
Although most Zambians are of Bantu origin, the complex patterns of immigration have produced wide linguistic and cultural variety.
Results revealed that babble spoken in the known languages (French and Italian) produced both linguistic and acoustic interference and that babble spoken in the unknown language (Irish) produced acoustic interference only.
The burden of such a reply lies, however, in actually producing a linguistic theory that sustains a principled class of sentences that could be isolated in this way and that, per the suggestion of §4.3, might play the basic explanatory role of meaning.
Kātyāyana says: "While the relationship between words and meanings is established on the basis of the usage of specific words to denote specific meanings in the community of speakers, the science of grammar only makes a regulation concerning the religious merit produced by the linguistic usage, as is commonly done in worldly matters and in Vedic rituals" (first Vārttika on the Aṣṭādhyāyī).
Here Dr. Sager showed that for a set of discharge letters a recall of 92.5% and a precision of 98.6% could be achieved for a limited set of pre-selected data using the parser produced by the Linguistic String Project at New York University [ 1- 3].
Specifically, participants in Hong Kong produced greater cross-linguistic transfer between Chinese and English regarding phonological awareness and decoding skills compared to participants located in U.S. or Canada.
The analyses also produced interesting cross-linguistic differences between Polish and British English for each of the emotions tested.
This may be called the 'Tower of Babel bias' and, in at least one of 36 consecutive meta-analyses, the exclusion of papers for linguistic reasons produced different results from those which would have been obtained if this exclusion criterion had not been used (Gregoire et al, 1995).
