ZeST: A Zero-Resourced Speech-to-Speech Translation Approach for Unknown, Unpaired, and Untranscribed Languages by Luan Thanh Nguyen, Sakriani Sakti

“…The experimental results highlight the potential of ZeST in contributing to the field of zero-resourced speech processing and improving communication in multilingual societies.…”
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A review on speech recognition approaches and challenges for Portuguese: exploring the feasibility of fine-tuning large-scale end-to-end models by Yan Li, Yapeng Wang, Lap Man Hoi, Dingcheng Yang, Sio-Kei Im

“…Whisper obtained a WER of 5.11% which indicates that multilingual joint training can enhance the generalization ability. …”
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Computational linguistics and natural language processing techniques for semantic field extraction in Arabic online news by Maulana Ihsan Ahmad, Moh. Kanif Anwari

“…The findings highlighted the potential of SVM for accurate news analysis and the need for further enhancement of NLP techniques to address multilingual and domain-specific challenges.…”
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The Linguistic Landscape of Urban Vellore: A Comprehensive Analysis of Language Distribution, Choice, and Implications in the Commercial Space Through Shop Signs by Mishra Sneha

“…The LL of Vellore’s shop signs is a reflection of the cultural, linguistic, and economic landscape of the city, and provides a window into the complexities of language use in multilingual urban environments.…”
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Storylines from Newcomers’ Perspectives: The Complexities of Learning Mathematics in a Norwegian Introductory Class by Shanthi Gretta Pasanha, Annica Andersson, Beth Herbel-Eisenmann, Anita Movik Simensen

“…We recommend listening to newcomers’ perspectives of their experiences and recognizing the strengths they bring to the classroom to understand how they navigate their situation while learning mathematics in multilingual mathematics learning settings.…”
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How can brand equity for tourism destinations be used to preview tourists’ destination choice? An overview from the top of Tower of Babel by Francisco Dias, Lucília Cardoso

“…This paper describes a new research programme – Favourite Destinations Worldwide – that includes three interrelated innovative tools: (1) the destination brand choice model that allows a better conceptualization of CBBE-TD in the context of destination choice; (2) the Tower of Babel platform, a multilingual online survey for data gathering, to assess CBBE-TD of all destinations competing in the world market; and (3) the Destination Brand Gnosis, a propriety software for qualitative data analysis, transforming the meta-data into a system for constantly evaluating brand attractiveness. …”
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Interaction of Linguistic and Literary Aspects in the Context of the Cultural Diversity of the Turkic Peoples of Central Asia by Omorov Aitmamat, Chokoeva Dilbar, Kalchakeyev Kubanychbek, Sheripbayev Amangeldi, Kochorova Gulumkan

“…The study analysed the linguistic features of the Turkic languages and their mutual influence through literary texts and oral traditions, with an emphasis on the processes of borrowing and adaptation of linguistic elements in a multilingual environment. The study examined scientific sources on linguistics and ethnolinguistics, and compared phonetic, morphological, and syntactic features of the Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, and Kyrgyz languages in a historical context. …”
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Memoryscapes of the Great War (1914-1918): A paradigm shift in tourism research on war heritage by Myriam Jansen-Verbeke, Wanda George

“…The added value of an international online survey completed by the World Heritage Tourism Research Network1 (WHTRN) in 2012 results from both the conceptual and interdisciplinary approach, questioning the interdependency of cultural, social, economic and political processes within the context of war memoryscapes, and the empirical data resulting from this multilingual survey.New tourism landscapes emerge in which the interests of national and regional governments, local and global stakeholders play an important role. …”
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Survey on Data Analysis in Social Media: A Practical Application Aspect by Qixuan Hou, Meng Han, Zhipeng Cai

“…Finally, we list existing challenges and suggest promising future research directions in terms of data privacy, 5G wireless network, and multilingual support.…”
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A cross‐project defect prediction method based on multi‐adaptation and nuclear norm by Qingan Huang, Le Ma, Siyu Jiang, Guobin Wu, Hengjie Song, Libiao Jiang, Chunyun Zheng

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Public health policies for children and youth with special health care needs in OECD member countries and Brazil: A scoping review protocol. by Ângela Cristina Rocha Gimenes, Elenir Rose Jardim Cury

“…<h4>Method</h4>A scoping review protocol was developed as per the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) manual and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses-Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) checklist, for application to the Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, PubMed, and Embase databases;to theLatin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS)multilingual thesaurus; and to gray literature.The review will map the principal documents (irrespective of time frame or language) addressing public health policies for CYSHCN up to 19 years old. …”
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Exploring primary care physicians’ role in travel medicine: a scoping review of knowledge, practices, and training by Ayman Al-Dahshan, Salma Ahmed, Anwar Joudeh, Vahe Kehyayan

“…The findings reveal a general deficiency in PCPs’ TM knowledge, with factors like prior TM experience, formal training, high traveler exposure, and multilingual abilities predicting higher knowledge scores. …”
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Logatome Discrimination in Cochlear Implant Users: Subjective Tests Compared to the Mismatch Negativity by Torsten Rahne, Michael Ziese, Dorothea Rostalski, Roland Mühler

“…This paper describes a logatome discrimination test for the assessment of speech perception in cochlear implant users (CI users), based on a multilingual speech database, the Oldenburg Logatome Corpus, which was originally recorded for the comparison of human and automated speech recognition. …”
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Audio-Language Datasets of Scenes and Events: A Survey by Gijs Wijngaard, Elia Formisano, Michele Esposito, Michel Dumontier

“…Finally, the survey identifies key challenges in developing large, diverse datasets to enhance ALM performance, including dataset overlap, biases, accessibility barriers, and the predominance of English-language content, while highlighting specific areas requiring attention: multilingual dataset development, specialized domain coverage and improved dataset accessibility.…”
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Overcoming Hesitancy and Barriers to Care with Integration of Telemedicine in a Free Student-run Health Clinic by Vikki A. Krysov, Michelle E. Balshin, Elijah N. Azar, Karina Cernioglo, David Perekopskiy, Altynay T. Nurpeissova, Lucy Zhonglu Shi

“…Methods: Successful implementation of telemedicine was dependent on building trust with the community, providing multilingual technological assistance, and offering personalized support. …”
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Professional Language Training of International Students in the Multicultural Environment of University for International Relations by T. Glebova

“…The author goes on to analyze the specifics of linguisticand socio-cultural environment in Russian universities and its impact on international students stressing the fact that the educational environment at MGIMO-University is multilingual and multicultural. That explains the relevance of studying the quality of professional language training of foreign students in the sphere of international relations. …”
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TurkMedNLI: a Turkish medical natural language inference dataset through large language model based translation by İskender Ülgen Oğul, Fatih Soygazi, Belgin Ergenç Bostanoğlu

“…This work demonstrates the effectiveness of large language models in adapting domain-specific datasets for low-resource languages, establishing a foundation for future research in multilingual biomedical NLP.…”
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The Turki-Language Diary of Insha Allah Khan Insha as a Literary Monument by Iskander R.Saitbattalov

“…Insha Allah Khan Insha was a key author of Urdu literature at the turn of the nineteenth centuries. His works were multilingual, and the languages he used comprised a local version of literary Turki. …”
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Linguistic Identity with Special Reference to Western Hindi Dialects by Pallav Vishnu

“…Therefore, the loss of one marker does not automatically entails the loss of cultural identity. Given the rich multilingual tradition of India where languages act as facilitators rather than as barriers in communication, one hopes that as linguistic identity. …”
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Applied Linguistics. Reflections on an evolving discipline with a focus on publications in the journal TEANGA, The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, from 20... by Jennifer Bruen

“…A number of other sub-disciplines are also quantitatively significant. These include multilingualism and plurilingualism, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, language policy and planning, and sociolinguistics. …”
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