Computing semantic relatedness of natural language texts is a key component of tasks such as information retrieval and summarization, and often depends on knowledge from a broad range of real-world concepts and relationships. We address this knowledge integration issue with a method of computing semantic relatedness using personalized PageRank (random walks) on a graph derived from Wikipedia. T...

Information security is an important aspect that should be considered during system development. Analyzing the specification of a system enables detecting flaws at early stage of a system development. An agent knowledge of the exchanged information and its nature is essential for analyzing systems. An agent can enrich its knowledge by receiving information as messages and producing new informat...

The current study is an attempt to investigate the impact of explicit instruction of metadiscourse markers on advanced, intermediate, and elementary EFL learners’ writing performance. The participants of the study were 94 undergraduate students majoring in English Literature at the University of Isfahan. To elicit the relevant data, participants were given a pretest of writing ability to check ...

With the development of internationalization and globalization, Chinese-foreign cooperative universities are established to attract more international scholars students, provide chances for Chinese students experience English Medium Instruction (EMI) courses. From universities’ official website pages, propaganda immersion education. In that case, learning academic content knowledge requires stu...