News tagged with language identification

Finding the seat of language? Researchers look into Broca's brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Harvard and University of California, San Diego, researchers report having pinpointed an area of the brain where three essential components of language -- word identification, grammar, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Dialect Detectives

(PhysOrg.com) -- Technology under development by Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo and his colleagues at Lincoln Laboratory may lead to a dialect identification system that compensates for a translator's inexperience ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1




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MBARI discovers new deep-sea hydrothermal vents using sonar-mapping robot

“As the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) descended into the blue depths above the Alarcón Rise, the control room was abuzz with anticipation," wrote MBARI geologist Julie Martin in her April 22nd cruise log. "Today we [are] planning to dive on one of the strangest envi ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Insects master abstract concepts

An insect's brain is capable of constructing and handling abstract concepts. It can even use two different concepts simultaneously in order to make a decision when faced with a new situation.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Hebrew inscription appears to confirm 'sign of Jonah' and Christian reference on ancient artifact

(Phys.org) -- Following the recent announcement of the discovery of the earliest known Christian imagery in the exploration of a sealed first century Jerusalem tomb, controversy predictably erupted, with numerous members ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (17) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

First fish app from the Smithsonian is free on iTunes

The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute has released the first completely portable bilingual species identification guide for the shore fishes of the tropical Eastern Pacific as a free iPhone application. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Kids show cultural gender bias

(PhysOrg.com) -- Talk about gender confusion! A recent study by University of Alberta researchers Elena Nicoladis and Cassandra Foursha-Stevenson in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology into whether speaki ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Racial identity is changing among Latinos

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published in Social Science Research, USC Dornsife’s Amon Emeka and Jody Agius Vallejo look at why many people with Latin American ancestry are not identifying themselves as His ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

New NIST biometric data standard adds DNA, footmarks and enhanced fingerprint descriptions

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a revised biometric standard in November, 2011, that vastly expands the type and amount of information that forensic scientists can share ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Humanities researchers and digital technologies: Building infrastructures for a new age

Europe's leading scientists have pledged to embrace and expand the role of technology in the Humanities. In a Science Policy Briefing released today by the European Science Foundation (ESF), they argue that without Research ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A lack of structure facilitates protein synthesis

Having an easily accessible starting point on messenger RNA increases protein formation, scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam have discovered.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Studies underestimate Mexican Americans' economic progress, new research shows

Descendents of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. may be making better socioeconomic progress than many studies indicate, according to research published in the April issue of The Journal of Labor Economics.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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