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The aim of this paper is to propose a new approach for the automatic treatment of linguistic vagueness. Our motivation is the feeling that most existing approaches dealing with linguistic information are based on converting vague meaning into crisp meaning using some conversions to precise measurements. As a result, existing approaches are adequate and easy to implement, but do not closely model the human thought process. To help alleviate this deficiency, we propose the use of linguistic relations to provide a natural language interface to an end user. We show a possible linguistic Prolog model based on an extension of the syntactic unification algorithm using synonymy and antonymy, as well as the extension of the resolution principle. Our approach does not aim to provide a well-founded formal semantics for such a linguistic Prolog, but a simple model supported by two experiments focused on the use of vague language, both of them executed in Spanish (an analysis of the data of the first experiment it is also available in that language at [1]). Thus, the purpose of this paper is to contribute to the mechanization of approximate reasoning by being respectful of the semantics of the vague terms involved in it; i.e., by paying attention to how they are evaluated by linguistic users under experimentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The AAOS Annual Meeting in 2024 will be held in San Francisco from February 12 to 16. The meeting will offer a wide range of educational opportunities, including paper presentations, posters, symposia, panel sessions, expert sessions, debates, industry exhibits, and more. The meeting will also feature an emphasis on case-study presentations and will provide opportunities for attendees to earn CME hours and fulfill professional obligations. The meeting will include the OrthoDome experience, which offers immersive surgical videos, and will have a mobile app to help attendees navigate the event. The meeting will also include activities and events for orthopaedic surgery residents, Spanish-language programming, and will welcome Chile as the 2024 Guest Nation. [Extracted from the article]

The article comments on educational programs and activities designed to encourage second language acquisition and development in British secondary schools, particularly noting the use of paper plates in Spanish education and the development of the Routes into Languages East Language Leader Award.

The author relates the use of the concept behind visual humor on Tony de Carlo's Day of the Dead paintings in teaching eighth-grade students. Her students are studying Spanish as their foreign language elective and are familiar with the customs surrounding Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico. Oil pastels on either black of white paper were used by students for their own Day of the Dead works. Some of them depicted their own ancestors, pets and famous people.

Deals with the lawsuit filed by the Hispanic Newspaper Network, an organization of Hispanic newspapers, against several advertising agencies in the United States over placement of federally-sponsored advertisements in Spanish language media. Agencies named in the lawsuit; Amount received by the papers from agencies' spending on government advertisements in 1999.

Reports on the conflicts involving two universities in Spain over the use of language. Suspension of a lecturer at Rovira i Virgili University for handing out exam papers in Spanish instead of Catalan; Dispute of the University of Valencia with education authorities over the Valencian language.