A new method for the white blood cell （WBC） detection is presented based on the relevance vector machine （RVM）. Firstly,the sparse relevance vectors （RVs） are obtained while fitting the 1-D histogram by RVM. The...A new method for the white blood cell （WBC） detection is presented based on the relevance vector machine （RVM）. Firstly,the sparse relevance vectors （RVs） are obtained while fitting the 1-D histogram by RVM. Then,the needed threshold value is directly selected from these limited RVs. Finally,the entire connective WBC regions are segmented from the original image. The method is used for the WBC detection. It reduces the interference induced by the illumination and the staining. It has advantages of the high computation efficiency and the no extra parameter setting. Experimental results demonstrate good performances of the method.展开更多
Functional equivalence,a focus in the translation studies,has been bombarded with numerous criticisms.Meanwhile,relevance translation theory,proposed by Ernst-August Gutt,offers a united theoretical framework for tran...Functional equivalence,a focus in the translation studies,has been bombarded with numerous criticisms.Meanwhile,relevance translation theory,proposed by Ernst-August Gutt,offers a united theoretical framework for translation studies.The development of the translation theories does not rely on the appearance of a brand-new theory,but on the successful connection among various theories.To split or to unify,it is a question and it will direct the further development of translation studies.Analyzing the similarities and differences between these two theories,the author are striving for a unity of them and striking a better way to approach translation studies.展开更多
Relevance Theory holds that the language communication of human beings is an ostensive-inferential process of searching for relevance.Translation as a communication across language and culture,involves a dual process ...Relevance Theory holds that the language communication of human beings is an ostensive-inferential process of searching for relevance.Translation as a communication across language and culture,involves a dual process of communication among the source language author,the translator and the target language readers,during which the translator infers the communicative intention of the source language author,then by assessing the cognitive environments of the target language readers,makes the optimally relevant translation so that the translation can be equivalent in relevant aspects.展开更多
The main errors in translating Chinese advertisements into English are pragmatic failures in which target-language readers fail to find the optimal relevance between the target text and source text.The translation str...The main errors in translating Chinese advertisements into English are pragmatic failures in which target-language readers fail to find the optimal relevance between the target text and source text.The translation strategies proposed under the guidance of Relevance Theory can effectively help translators find out optimal relevance in the process of translating Chinese advertisements into English to avoid pragmatic failures.展开更多
Relevance theory, an inferential approach to pragmatics, claims that the hearer is expected to pick out the input of optimal relevance from a mass of alternative inputs produced by the speaker in order to interpret th...Relevance theory, an inferential approach to pragmatics, claims that the hearer is expected to pick out the input of optimal relevance from a mass of alternative inputs produced by the speaker in order to interpret the speaker's intentions. The degree of the relevance of an input can be assessed in terms of cognitive effects and the processing effort. The input of optimal relevance is the one yielding the greatest positive cognitive effect and requiring the least processing effort. This paper attempts to assess the degrees of the relevance of a mass of alternative inputs produced by an imaginary speaker from the perspective of her corresponding hearer in terms of cognitive effects and the processing effort with a view to justifying the feasibility of the principle of relevance in pragmatic inferences.展开更多
This thesis draws on Sperber and Wilson’s principle of relevance to expound listening comprehension is an ostensiveinferential process based on the cognitive context in searching for optimal relevance,thus to explore...This thesis draws on Sperber and Wilson’s principle of relevance to expound listening comprehension is an ostensiveinferential process based on the cognitive context in searching for optimal relevance,thus to explore a range of effective suggestions and new thoughts.展开更多
This paper focuses on the notion of relevance in translation,aiming to clarify the cognitive motivation of translation,which can serve as an account of relevance in translation.
Iconicity as one of the very important research items of cognitive linguistics refers to the natural, non-arbitrary rela?tionship between form and meaning. The study of iconicity has great significance of revealing th...Iconicity as one of the very important research items of cognitive linguistics refers to the natural, non-arbitrary rela?tionship between form and meaning. The study of iconicity has great significance of revealing the relationship between concept and cognition and can help people better understand the essence of language. This paper presents an analysis of the three iconicity principles- distance iconicity,quantity iconicity and sequencing iconicity-base on the relevance theory. The purpose of this pa?per is to offer a new dimension to iconicity analysis and finding more connections between the form of language and real mean?ing.展开更多
The essay tends to analyze the translation of Chinese Culture-loaded words from the perspective of Relevance Theory.The theory gains its prominence by studying the translation process and transcending the conflicts be...The essay tends to analyze the translation of Chinese Culture-loaded words from the perspective of Relevance Theory.The theory gains its prominence by studying the translation process and transcending the conflicts between literal and free translation. It incorporates recent work in cognitive linguistics, with ostensive-inference as its key model. Under the influence of Relevance theory, the translation of culture-loaded words is reader-oriented. Translators are obliged to help target readers to establish new assumptions to achieve equivalent response.展开更多
A novel method based on the relevance vector machine（RVM） for the inverse scattering problem is presented in this paper.The nonlinearity and the ill-posedness inherent in this problem are simultaneously considered.T...A novel method based on the relevance vector machine（RVM） for the inverse scattering problem is presented in this paper.The nonlinearity and the ill-posedness inherent in this problem are simultaneously considered.The nonlinearity is embodied in the relation between the scattered field and the target property,which can be obtained through the RVM training process.Besides,rather than utilizing regularization,the ill-posed nature of the inversion is naturally accounted for because the RVM can produce a probabilistic output.Simulation results reveal that the proposed RVM-based approach can provide comparative performances in terms of accuracy,convergence,robustness,generalization,and improved performance in terms of sparse property in comparison with the support vector machine（SVM） based approach.展开更多
SUMMARY Intracranial calcification may result from disturbances in calcium metabolism. It often remains asymptomatic, but may present with symptoms like seizure and neurological deficits. Correction of the underlying ...SUMMARY Intracranial calcification may result from disturbances in calcium metabolism. It often remains asymptomatic, but may present with symptoms like seizure and neurological deficits. Correction of the underlying metabolic disturbance before damage of neuronal tissues due to intracranial calcification may be useful in preventing irreversible neurological deficits. This window period may be the crucial period that needs a thorough clinical evaluation and urgent intervention. We highlight the case of an adult woman with Fahr's disease presented with generalised tonic-clonic seizure. The management priorities were also discussed along with review of literature.展开更多
Feature selection is an important problem in pattern classification systems. High dimension fisher criterion（HDF） is a good indicator of class separability. However, calculating the high dimension fisher ratio is di...Feature selection is an important problem in pattern classification systems. High dimension fisher criterion（HDF） is a good indicator of class separability. However, calculating the high dimension fisher ratio is difficult. A new feature selection method, called fisher-and-correlation （FC）, is proposed. The proposed method is combining fisher criterion and correlation criterion based on the analysis of feature relevance and redundancy. The proposed methodology is tested in five different classification applications. The presented resuits confirm that FC performs as well as HDF does at much lower computational complexity.展开更多
A new method to evaluate fuzzily user＇s relevance on the basis of cloud models has been proposed. All factors of personalized information retrieval system are taken into account in this method. So using this method f...A new method to evaluate fuzzily user＇s relevance on the basis of cloud models has been proposed. All factors of personalized information retrieval system are taken into account in this method. So using this method for personalized information retrieval （PIR） system can efficiently judge multi-value relevance, such as quite relevant, comparatively relevant, commonly relevant, basically relevant and completely non-relevant, and realize a kind of transform of qualitative concepts and quantity and improve accuracy of relevance judgements in PIR system. Experimental data showed that the method is practical and valid. Evaluation results are more accurate and approach to the fact better.展开更多
Based on the Relevance Theory established by Sperber & Wilson, this paper sets out to look into the persuasive power in a chosen advertisement and at the same time tries to render plausible explanations of the con...Based on the Relevance Theory established by Sperber & Wilson, this paper sets out to look into the persuasive power in a chosen advertisement and at the same time tries to render plausible explanations of the contextual effects that are inferred by the audience in the communicative process.展开更多
In the classroom interactive teaching activities, the problem posed by teachers is teacher′s utterance. Teacher talk is notonly a tool for teachers to implement teaching plans, but also determine the success or failu...In the classroom interactive teaching activities, the problem posed by teachers is teacher′s utterance. Teacher talk is notonly a tool for teachers to implement teaching plans, but also determine the success or failure of classroom teaching, so it has beenthe focus of language teaching research for many years. In the process of classroom communication, teachers′discourse cannot bewell understood, sometimes the questions raised can not induce students′timely, relevant and clear answers, leading to communica-tion failure. How to make teachers′discourse more understandable and how to successfully put forward the principles of explicit-ness, relevance and the acquisition of contextual effects of relevance theory has a good explanatory power for some phenomena ofclassroom communication in foreign language teaching. According to the basic idea of Relevance Theory, through the analysis ofteachers′discourse examples, we can find the theoretical basis for successful classroom questioning.展开更多
Advertising language is a special pattern of language, reflecting a nation's cultural background, lifestyle, and thinking pattern of people. Cultures in specific societies may also limit the advertising language.U...Advertising language is a special pattern of language, reflecting a nation's cultural background, lifestyle, and thinking pattern of people. Cultures in specific societies may also limit the advertising language.Under the framework of Sperber and Wil?son's"Relevance Theory", and with an aim of creating optimal relevance, this thesis analyzes advertising languages in China and America from the cultural perspective, comparing the distinctions from the dimensions of cultural psychologies and power dis?tance. It is hoped that in the creation and appreciation of advertisements in different languages, cultural factors can be taken into serious consideration.展开更多
Reading is a complex process of communication between writer and reader.Relevance theory proposes that communication is an ostensive-inferential process from the cognitive perspective.The thesis studies the English re...Reading is a complex process of communication between writer and reader.Relevance theory proposes that communication is an ostensive-inferential process from the cognitive perspective.The thesis studies the English reading teaching approach for higher vocational students and applies it to the question type of reading comprehension test in PRETCO-A.It proposes three research questions in view of actual condition of teaching English reading.By the questionnaires and tests,the relevant data are collected,analyzed and discussed.Three research results are proved to be effective in reading teaching.展开更多
Metaphor consists of two parts:the object and the image,how to reveal the maximum similarity between the two is of great importance when doing transaltion.In light of Relevance Theory which emphasizes the maximum rele...Metaphor consists of two parts:the object and the image,how to reveal the maximum similarity between the two is of great importance when doing transaltion.In light of Relevance Theory which emphasizes the maximum relevance out of the TT readers' minimum efforts to facilitate them with a better understanding.This paper will talk about three ways of translating metaphors in the view of Relevance Theory.展开更多
Reading is a style of communication between reader and writer while relevance theory is a new approach to communi cation.Based on relevance theory,we can paraphrase reading as followings:reading comprehension is a pro...Reading is a style of communication between reader and writer while relevance theory is a new approach to communi cation.Based on relevance theory,we can paraphrase reading as followings:reading comprehension is a process of communica tion between reader and writer;a process of making inference from the ostensive-inference communication;a process of seeking optimal relevance on the part of the reader.展开更多
As a special type of language transfer,subtitle serves as the bridge linking the original language and the target language for audience and supplies explicit and implicit information to the audience by audio and visua...As a special type of language transfer,subtitle serves as the bridge linking the original language and the target language for audience and supplies explicit and implicit information to the audience by audio and visual ways.By using Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory to support and analyze the film subtitles’translation,we can find that the subtitles should create optimal relevance in translations to guarantee target audience that they could not only acquire basic information,but also obtain contextual effects adequately.Therefore,by applying relevance theory,this paper discusses the pursuit of optimal relevance in subtitle translation.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30700183)the Doctoral Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (20070294001)+1 种基金the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University(NCET-10-0327)the Chinese Universities Scientific Foundation (2009B21014)~~
文摘A new method for the white blood cell （WBC） detection is presented based on the relevance vector machine （RVM）. Firstly,the sparse relevance vectors （RVs） are obtained while fitting the 1-D histogram by RVM. Then,the needed threshold value is directly selected from these limited RVs. Finally,the entire connective WBC regions are segmented from the original image. The method is used for the WBC detection. It reduces the interference induced by the illumination and the staining. It has advantages of the high computation efficiency and the no extra parameter setting. Experimental results demonstrate good performances of the method.
文摘Functional equivalence,a focus in the translation studies,has been bombarded with numerous criticisms.Meanwhile,relevance translation theory,proposed by Ernst-August Gutt,offers a united theoretical framework for translation studies.The development of the translation theories does not rely on the appearance of a brand-new theory,but on the successful connection among various theories.To split or to unify,it is a question and it will direct the further development of translation studies.Analyzing the similarities and differences between these two theories,the author are striving for a unity of them and striking a better way to approach translation studies.
文摘Relevance Theory holds that the language communication of human beings is an ostensive-inferential process of searching for relevance.Translation as a communication across language and culture,involves a dual process of communication among the source language author,the translator and the target language readers,during which the translator infers the communicative intention of the source language author,then by assessing the cognitive environments of the target language readers,makes the optimally relevant translation so that the translation can be equivalent in relevant aspects.
文摘The main errors in translating Chinese advertisements into English are pragmatic failures in which target-language readers fail to find the optimal relevance between the target text and source text.The translation strategies proposed under the guidance of Relevance Theory can effectively help translators find out optimal relevance in the process of translating Chinese advertisements into English to avoid pragmatic failures.
文摘Relevance theory, an inferential approach to pragmatics, claims that the hearer is expected to pick out the input of optimal relevance from a mass of alternative inputs produced by the speaker in order to interpret the speaker's intentions. The degree of the relevance of an input can be assessed in terms of cognitive effects and the processing effort. The input of optimal relevance is the one yielding the greatest positive cognitive effect and requiring the least processing effort. This paper attempts to assess the degrees of the relevance of a mass of alternative inputs produced by an imaginary speaker from the perspective of her corresponding hearer in terms of cognitive effects and the processing effort with a view to justifying the feasibility of the principle of relevance in pragmatic inferences.
文摘This thesis draws on Sperber and Wilson’s principle of relevance to expound listening comprehension is an ostensiveinferential process based on the cognitive context in searching for optimal relevance,thus to explore a range of effective suggestions and new thoughts.
文摘This paper focuses on the notion of relevance in translation,aiming to clarify the cognitive motivation of translation,which can serve as an account of relevance in translation.
文摘Iconicity as one of the very important research items of cognitive linguistics refers to the natural, non-arbitrary rela?tionship between form and meaning. The study of iconicity has great significance of revealing the relationship between concept and cognition and can help people better understand the essence of language. This paper presents an analysis of the three iconicity principles- distance iconicity,quantity iconicity and sequencing iconicity-base on the relevance theory. The purpose of this pa?per is to offer a new dimension to iconicity analysis and finding more connections between the form of language and real mean?ing.
文摘The essay tends to analyze the translation of Chinese Culture-loaded words from the perspective of Relevance Theory.The theory gains its prominence by studying the translation process and transcending the conflicts between literal and free translation. It incorporates recent work in cognitive linguistics, with ostensive-inference as its key model. Under the influence of Relevance theory, the translation of culture-loaded words is reader-oriented. Translators are obliged to help target readers to establish new assumptions to achieve equivalent response.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61071022)the Graduate Student Research and Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province,China (Grant No. CXZZ11-0381)
文摘A novel method based on the relevance vector machine（RVM） for the inverse scattering problem is presented in this paper.The nonlinearity and the ill-posedness inherent in this problem are simultaneously considered.The nonlinearity is embodied in the relation between the scattered field and the target property,which can be obtained through the RVM training process.Besides,rather than utilizing regularization,the ill-posed nature of the inversion is naturally accounted for because the RVM can produce a probabilistic output.Simulation results reveal that the proposed RVM-based approach can provide comparative performances in terms of accuracy,convergence,robustness,generalization,and improved performance in terms of sparse property in comparison with the support vector machine（SVM） based approach.
文摘SUMMARY Intracranial calcification may result from disturbances in calcium metabolism. It often remains asymptomatic, but may present with symptoms like seizure and neurological deficits. Correction of the underlying metabolic disturbance before damage of neuronal tissues due to intracranial calcification may be useful in preventing irreversible neurological deficits. This window period may be the crucial period that needs a thorough clinical evaluation and urgent intervention. We highlight the case of an adult woman with Fahr's disease presented with generalised tonic-clonic seizure. The management priorities were also discussed along with review of literature.
基金the Ministerial Level Advanced Research Foundation(66830202)
文摘Feature selection is an important problem in pattern classification systems. High dimension fisher criterion（HDF） is a good indicator of class separability. However, calculating the high dimension fisher ratio is difficult. A new feature selection method, called fisher-and-correlation （FC）, is proposed. The proposed method is combining fisher criterion and correlation criterion based on the analysis of feature relevance and redundancy. The proposed methodology is tested in five different classification applications. The presented resuits confirm that FC performs as well as HDF does at much lower computational complexity.
文摘A new method to evaluate fuzzily user＇s relevance on the basis of cloud models has been proposed. All factors of personalized information retrieval system are taken into account in this method. So using this method for personalized information retrieval （PIR） system can efficiently judge multi-value relevance, such as quite relevant, comparatively relevant, commonly relevant, basically relevant and completely non-relevant, and realize a kind of transform of qualitative concepts and quantity and improve accuracy of relevance judgements in PIR system. Experimental data showed that the method is practical and valid. Evaluation results are more accurate and approach to the fact better.
文摘Based on the Relevance Theory established by Sperber & Wilson, this paper sets out to look into the persuasive power in a chosen advertisement and at the same time tries to render plausible explanations of the contextual effects that are inferred by the audience in the communicative process.
文摘In the classroom interactive teaching activities, the problem posed by teachers is teacher′s utterance. Teacher talk is notonly a tool for teachers to implement teaching plans, but also determine the success or failure of classroom teaching, so it has beenthe focus of language teaching research for many years. In the process of classroom communication, teachers′discourse cannot bewell understood, sometimes the questions raised can not induce students′timely, relevant and clear answers, leading to communica-tion failure. How to make teachers′discourse more understandable and how to successfully put forward the principles of explicit-ness, relevance and the acquisition of contextual effects of relevance theory has a good explanatory power for some phenomena ofclassroom communication in foreign language teaching. According to the basic idea of Relevance Theory, through the analysis ofteachers′discourse examples, we can find the theoretical basis for successful classroom questioning.
文摘Advertising language is a special pattern of language, reflecting a nation's cultural background, lifestyle, and thinking pattern of people. Cultures in specific societies may also limit the advertising language.Under the framework of Sperber and Wil?son's"Relevance Theory", and with an aim of creating optimal relevance, this thesis analyzes advertising languages in China and America from the cultural perspective, comparing the distinctions from the dimensions of cultural psychologies and power dis?tance. It is hoped that in the creation and appreciation of advertisements in different languages, cultural factors can be taken into serious consideration.
文摘Reading is a complex process of communication between writer and reader.Relevance theory proposes that communication is an ostensive-inferential process from the cognitive perspective.The thesis studies the English reading teaching approach for higher vocational students and applies it to the question type of reading comprehension test in PRETCO-A.It proposes three research questions in view of actual condition of teaching English reading.By the questionnaires and tests,the relevant data are collected,analyzed and discussed.Three research results are proved to be effective in reading teaching.
文摘Metaphor consists of two parts:the object and the image,how to reveal the maximum similarity between the two is of great importance when doing transaltion.In light of Relevance Theory which emphasizes the maximum relevance out of the TT readers' minimum efforts to facilitate them with a better understanding.This paper will talk about three ways of translating metaphors in the view of Relevance Theory.
文摘Reading is a style of communication between reader and writer while relevance theory is a new approach to communi cation.Based on relevance theory,we can paraphrase reading as followings:reading comprehension is a process of communica tion between reader and writer;a process of making inference from the ostensive-inference communication;a process of seeking optimal relevance on the part of the reader.
文摘As a special type of language transfer,subtitle serves as the bridge linking the original language and the target language for audience and supplies explicit and implicit information to the audience by audio and visual ways.By using Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory to support and analyze the film subtitles’translation,we can find that the subtitles should create optimal relevance in translations to guarantee target audience that they could not only acquire basic information,but also obtain contextual effects adequately.Therefore,by applying relevance theory,this paper discusses the pursuit of optimal relevance in subtitle translation.
