This paper provides a description of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) System that participated in the task #5 of SemEval-2, i.e., the Automatic Keyphrase Extraction from Scientific Articles task. We followed a novel framework to develop our keyphrase extraction system, motivated by differentiating the roles of the words in a keyphrase. We first identified the core words which are de...

Since written assignments often constitute the main form of assessment in tertiary education, academic writing skills are paramount importance to university students. The role turn emphasises two aspects vital for successful production at universities: genre awareness as students assessed on relevant genres and use vocabulary regarded a key element style. This study employs corpus-based approac...

the relationship between types of thinking styles and academic adjustment among nursing students     zarei ha [1] *, mierhashme m [2]     received: 18 feb, 2012 accepted: 30 may, 2012     abstract:   background & aims : adjustment and its different aspects is considered as a basic and extensive discussions in psychology, therefore identifying of related factors –apart from increasing domains of...

A considerable body of research has demonstrated that loanwords often pattern differently than native vocabulary with respect to markedness restrictions. Most commonly, clearly “foreign” words observe a subset of the markedness restrictions obeyed by more nativized words (Saciuk 1969, Holden 1976, Paradis & Lebel 1994, Itô & Mester 1995, 1999, 2008, Paradis & LaCharité 1997, Davidson & Noyer 19...

Metacognitive Orientation of the Class and the Students' Metacognitive Awareness and Academic Achievement R. Chaalmeh M. Foolaadchang, Ph.D. Given that the metacognitive orientation of a group of students depends on their metacognitive awareness, to assess the strength of this relation and its role in academic achievement, a cluster sample of 213 high school students with the ...