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This abstract discusses the differences between learning English as a foreign language (EFL) and learning English as a
second language (ESL). The EFL is when English is learned in a non-English speaking nation where it is not the
primary communication medium, often for academic or professional reasons. In contrast, ESL is when English is…[Read more]

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This article describes and analyzes the methods of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place, a digital humanities contribution to book history. Footprints collects and aggregates information about the movement of copies of Hebrew books and books of Judaica in other languages printed in the early modern period (roughly corresponding to the…[Read more]

While the discipline of computational linguistics mostly deals with the modeling and the investigation of individual languages (often “big” languages such as English, German, Arabic, or Chinese), Multilingual Computational Linguistics focuses on the comparison of languages, trying to develop new methods and techniques by which languages can be com…[Read more]