The Apartment

Lenn never considered herself one of the foreigners in Bangkok. She believed that she was different from her privileged peers at international schools, the posse of multinational corporation workers and the unwitting tourists with a colonial mindset. But when she meets Jon Hayes Wichasak, a wandering luk khrueng, her conviction starts to crumble. She begins to question her motives behind returning to Bangkok and her desire for intimacy. Set on the road that stretches from the Thai-Cambodian border to the Chao Praya River, the novella explores expatriation in the twenty-first century

Multi-cultural, multi-course collaborative project: Learning outcomes and project impact

A multi-course collaborative project is an effective way to enhance student learning because it not only facilitates the development of social skills, but also provides students an opportunity to understand the importance of collaboration with people in diverse areas in the industry (Kim, LaFleur, & Schaeffer, 2008). A collaborative project in a multi-cultural setting enhances student learning by exposing students to other cultures and broadening their scope of knowledge and applications (Chen, Hsu, & Caropreso, 2006)

Persistent Direction-Fixed Nystagmus Following Canalith Repositioning Maneuver for Horizontal Canal BPPV: A Case of Canalith Jam

The authors report a 64-year-old man who developed persistent direction fixed nystagmus after a canalith repositioning maneuver for horizontal canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (HC-BPPV). The patient was initially diagnosed with right HC-BPPV given that the Dix-Hallpike test showed geotropic horizontal nystagmus that was more pronounced on the right side, although the roll test did not show any positional nystagmus. The patient was treated with a canalith repositioning maneuver (Lempert maneuver). The next day, the patient experienced a different character of dizziness, and left-beating spontaneous nystagmus regardless of head position was observed. After a forced prolonged left decubitus and frequent head shaking, his symptoms and nystagmus resolved. This condition, referred to as canalith jam, can be a complication after the repositioning maneuver in patients with BPPV. Atypical positional tests suggest that abnormal canal anatomy could be the underlying cause of canalith jam

The Clinical Usefulness of 18F-FDG PET/CT for the Evaluation of Lymph Node Metastasis in Periorbital Malignancies

PURPOSE: Surgical treatment of malignancies in the oral cavity and subsequent radiotherapy often result in an oral condition unfavorable for prosthodontic rehabilitation. This study assessed the quality of life related to oral function in edentulous head and neck cancer patients following oncology treatment of malignancies in the lower region of the oral cavity. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients treated between 1990 and 2000 with surgery and radiotherapy for a squamous cell carcinoma in the oral cavity who were edentulous in the mandible and had been treated with a conventional, non-implant-retained denture received an invitation for a clinical check-up (clinical assessment, questionnaires regarding oral function and quality of life). RESULTS: Sixty-seven of the 84 patients who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were willing to participate in the study. The mean irradiation dosage that these patients had received in the oral region was 61.8 +/- 5.4 Gy. Half of the patients (n=33) were not very satisfied with their prostheses; they wore their mandibular prostheses at most a few hours per day. It was concluded from the clinical assessment that two thirds of the patients (n 4) could benefit from an implant-retained mandibular denture. Analyses of the questionnaires revealed no significant associations between functional assessments, quality of life, and parameters such as size of the primary tumor, location of the primary tumor, and different treatment regimes. Despite cancer treatment, the patients reported a rather good general quality of life. CONCLUSIONS: Sequelae resulting from radiotherapy probably dominate oral function and quality of life after oncology treatment. In two thirds of the patients, improvement of oral function and related quality of life would be expected with the use of an implant-retained mandibular denture

Multi-cultural, multi-course collaborative project: Learning outcomes and project impact

A multi-course collaborative project is an effective way to enhance student learning because it not only facilitates the development of social skills, but also provides students an opportunity to understand the importance of collaboration with people in diverse areas in the industry (Kim, LaFleur, & Schaeffer, 2008). A collaborative project in a multi-cultural setting enhances student learning by exposing students to other cultures and broadening their scope of knowledge and applications (Chen, Hsu, & Caropreso, 2006).</p

DECO-MWE: Building a Linguistic Resource of Korean Multiword Expressions for Feature-Based Sentiment Analysis

International audienceThis paper aims to construct a linguistic resource of Korean Multiword Expressions for Feature-Based Sentiment Analysis (FBSA): DECO-MWE. Dealing with multiword expressions (MWEs) has been a critical issue in FBSA since many constructs reveal lexical idiosyncrasy. To construct linguistic resources of sentiment MWEs efficiently, we utilize the Local Grammar Graph (LGG) methodology: DECO-MWE is formalized as a Finite-State Transducer that represents lexical-syntactic restrictions on MWEs. In this study, we built a corpus of cosmetics review texts, which show particularly frequent occurrences of MWEs. Based on an empirical examination of the corpus, four types of MWEs have been distinguished. The DECO-MWE thus covers the following four categories: Standard Polarity MWEs (SMWEs), Domain-Dependent Polarity MWEs (DMWEs), Compound Named Entity MWEs (EMWEs) and Compound Feature MWEs (FMWEs). The retrieval performance of the DECO-MWE shows 0.806 f-measure in the test corpus. This study brings a twofold outcome: first, a sizeable general-purpose polarity MWE lexicon, which may be broadly used in FBSA; second, a finite-state methodology adopted in this study to treat domain-dependent MWEs such as idiosyncratic polarity expressions, named entity expressions or feature expressions, and which may be reused in describing linguistic properties of other corpus domains

DECO-MWE: Building a Linguistic Resource of Korean Multiword Expressions for Feature-Based Sentiment Analysis

International audienceThis paper aims to construct a linguistic resource of Korean Multiword Expressions for Feature-Based Sentiment Analysis (FBSA): DECO-MWE. Dealing with multiword expressions (MWEs) has been a critical issue in FBSA since many constructs reveal lexical idiosyncrasy. To construct linguistic resources of sentiment MWEs efficiently, we utilize the Local Grammar Graph (LGG) methodology: DECO-MWE is formalized as a Finite-State Transducer that represents lexical-syntactic restrictions on MWEs. In this study, we built a corpus of cosmetics review texts, which show particularly frequent occurrences of MWEs. Based on an empirical examination of the corpus, four types of MWEs have been distinguished. The DECO-MWE thus covers the following four categories: Standard Polarity MWEs (SMWEs), Domain-Dependent Polarity MWEs (DMWEs), Compound Named Entity MWEs (EMWEs) and Compound Feature MWEs (FMWEs). The retrieval performance of the DECO-MWE shows 0.806 f-measure in the test corpus. This study brings a twofold outcome: first, a sizeable general-purpose polarity MWE lexicon, which may be broadly used in FBSA; second, a finite-state methodology adopted in this study to treat domain-dependent MWEs such as idiosyncratic polarity expressions, named entity expressions or feature expressions, and which may be reused in describing linguistic properties of other corpus domains

SSP-based construction of evaluation-annotated data for fine-grained aspect-based sentiment analysis

International audienceWe report the construction of a Korean evaluation-annotated corpus, hereafter called 'Evaluation Annotated Dataset (EVAD)', and its use in Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) extended in order to cover e-commerce reviews containing sentiment and non-sentiment linguistic patterns. The annotation process uses Semi-Automatic Symbolic Propagation (SSP). We built extensive linguistic resources formalized as a Finite-State Transducer (FST) to annotate corpora with detailed ABSA components in the fashion e-commerce domain. The ABSA approach is extended, in order to analyze user opinions more accurately and extract more detailed features of targets, by including aspect values in addition to topics and aspects, and by classifying aspectvalue pairs depending whether values are unary, binary, or multiple. For evaluation, the KoBERT and KcBERT models are trained on the annotated dataset, showing robust performances of F1 0.88 and F1 0.90, respectively, on recognition of aspect-value pairs

DECO-MWE: Building a Linguistic Resource of Korean Multiword Expressions for Feature-Based Sentiment Analysis

International audienceThis paper aims to construct a linguistic resource of Korean Multiword Expressions for Feature-Based Sentiment Analysis (FBSA): DECO-MWE. Dealing with multiword expressions (MWEs) has been a critical issue in FBSA since many constructs reveal lexical idiosyncrasy. To construct linguistic resources of sentiment MWEs efficiently, we utilize the Local Grammar Graph (LGG) methodology: DECO-MWE is formalized as a Finite-State Transducer that represents lexical-syntactic restrictions on MWEs. In this study, we built a corpus of cosmetics review texts, which show particularly frequent occurrences of MWEs. Based on an empirical examination of the corpus, four types of MWEs have been distinguished. The DECO-MWE thus covers the following four categories: Standard Polarity MWEs (SMWEs), Domain-Dependent Polarity MWEs (DMWEs), Compound Named Entity MWEs (EMWEs) and Compound Feature MWEs (FMWEs). The retrieval performance of the DECO-MWE shows 0.806 f-measure in the test corpus. This study brings a twofold outcome: first, a sizeable general-purpose polarity MWE lexicon, which may be broadly used in FBSA; second, a finite-state methodology adopted in this study to treat domain-dependent MWEs such as idiosyncratic polarity expressions, named entity expressions or feature expressions, and which may be reused in describing linguistic properties of other corpus domains