Word Sense Disambiguation of Corpus of Historical Japanese Using Japanese BERT Trained with Contemporary Texts

Analysis of Well-being in Some Visayan Languages Randolph G. Catungal Lagro High School, Q.C. catungal_randolph@yahoo.com Abstract This study is unique because it focuses on language consultants’ perceptions of their life satisfaction. This paper looks into their well-being and how it reflects their culture. The questions addressed were, "Are you happy with your life right now?" and "How can you ensure yours and your children's well-being?" After the in-depth interview, three domains have been identified: livelihood, money, and wishes. They are satisfied if they are able to work for a living and mind if their family eats twice or thrice a day. They hope that whatever they failed to achieve in life would be carried on by their descendants. Reduplication, affixation, transfer emphasis, phoneme deletion, and borrowing are analyzed on how some terms related to well- being are being formed in Romblomanon, Waray-Leyte, and Visaya-Mindanao language consultants. 1 Introduction The experience of pleasant emotions such as happiness and contentment, as well as the de- velopment of one’s potential, gaining some control over one’s life, gaining a sense of pur- pose, and enjoying meaningful connection, was classified as well-being (Huppert, 2009). Ac- cording to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2001), well-being is a long-term state that allows a person or a group to grow and develop. It is associated with professional, personal, and interpersonal success, with well- organized peo- ple demonstrating higher work productivity, more effective learning, and enhanced creativ- ity. There are ethnolinguistic groups that have the same pronunciation, sound, and spelling but also have different lexicons (words) but with the same semantics (meanings). 2 Methodology their views of well-being on Romblomanon, Waray-Leyte, and Visaya-Mindanao. Life satisfaction as one of the measures of well-being is viewed as happiness. This is an initial study because the data collected is lim- ited. The consultants are twelve native speakers of Romblomanon, Waray-Leyte and Visaya- Mindanao aged 25-50. The data gathered were presented and analyzed through componential analysis. 3 Results and Discussions The terms ‘maginhawa’, ‘mas maginhawa’ and ‘pinakamaginhawa’ are expressed same in Romblomanon, Visaya-Mindanao, and Taga- log. In Romblomanon, well-being or being well is having an adequate occupation or farm, a happy family, and having a good connection to- wards various types of trade. The life of the Waray-Leyte people is comfortable without bad weather because they make a living from rice and copra. In Waray-Leyte, ‘maupay’ is the equivalent of the Tagalog words ‘ginhawa’ and ‘maginhawa’. Therefore, having a comfortable life for Waray-Leyte is having a luxurious life. ‘Ungod’ which is equivalent to ‘pinaka’ in Ta- galog can be associated with ‘ubod’ which means ‘sobra’ like ‘sobrang ginhawa’. In fact, the different language varieties of Visaya are influenced by different languages in the Philip- pines such as Tagalog and English. Being com- fortable in the life of the Visayan-Mindanao is having a more uplifting life for other people, more uplifting in life. In those days, the datu in Visaya-Mindanao were considered wealthy people in their area. Table 1 shows the different lexicons for …

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