this paper presents an attempt to analyze the verb phrase ellipsis in persian in terms of the questions of identity and licensing. assuming a minimalist framework for the analysis, it is argued that verb phrase ellipsis in persian is structurally licensed by a governing head which takes vp as its complement, through an algorithm of e(llipsis)-feature deletion at pf. it is also shown that struct...

This paper presents a technique to generate distractors for cloze questions in the context of a Computer-Assisted Language Learning tutoring system. The document will focus on an evaluation process used to measure the quality of the distractors that were automatically generated. The main goal of the present study is to be able to include this feature in the tutoring system.

OBJECTIVE To explore the way the doctor-patient communication process may be improved by adopting the patients' conversational style in the development of written materials for surgical patients. METHODS Written information prepared by doctors, specialists in abdominal surgery, was tested for comprehension on patients undergoing cholecystectomy, using the standard Cloze test procedure. At the...

*Correspondence: Fabrizio Consorti , Department of Surgical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, Rome 00161, Italy e-mail: [email protected] Distance learning is used in medical education, even if some recent meta-analyses indicated that it is no more effective than traditional methods. To exploit the technological capabilities, adaptive distance learning sy...

Commonsense question answering (CQA) aims to test if models can answer questions regarding commonsense knowledge that everyone knows. Prior works incorporate external bases have shown promising results, but are expensive construct and often limited a fixed set of relations. In this paper, we instead focus on better utilizing the implicit stored in pre-trained language models. While researchers ...