OBJECTIVES 1) Determine whether textual Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are interpreted accurately and unequivocally by targeted physicians. 2) Specify audience and perception of the CPGs. METHOD Comparative analysis of answers given by a panel of general practitioners to a series of questions and clinical case studies related to three textual CPGs produced and published by the French Nat...

A language-independent morphological component for the recognition and generation of word forms is presented. Based on a lexicon of morphs, the approach combines two-level morphology and a feature-based unification grammar describing word formation. To overcome the heavy use of diacritics, feature structures are associated with the two-level rules. These feature structures function as filters f...

since the verbs of and have similar use and play an important role in arabic grammar, it was useful to study both and discuss about their functions. following the discussion we found that there is five different functions for :first, it is an imperfect verb, (that give the noun an nominative case and the comment an objective case) arabic grammar experts disagree if it has a verb function or a n...

This study aimed at investigating the effect of using an instructional software program of English language on the achievement of secondary students in Jordan. The sample of the study consisted of (212) students distributed randomly on four experimental groups and four control groups. The instruments of the study were an instructional software program for teaching the passive voice and an achie...

The Editors of The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics wholeheartedly join the co-workers, former students and broader linguistic community to celebrate this year’s life anniversary of its founding Editor-in-Chief Professor PhDr. Petr Sgall, DrSc. Dr.h.c mult. (born May 27th, 1926). Petr Sgall is an outstanding member of the Czech linguistic community highly appreciated at home and abro...

2. Background Since the beginning of the Chomskyan tradition, grammar writers and implementors have taken up the challenge to produce as accurate and covering monolingual grammars as possible. Often, this has taken place within certain theoretical and practical frameworks, more or less relating to existing linguistic theories, sometimes even contributing to language theory. For computational ap...

At an observational level t it is a commonplace that languages differ from each other in terms of the freedom with which constituents may berearranged within phrases. This has formed the basis of a traditional typological distinction between IIfree-word-order languages such as Sanskrit or Latin and IIfixed-word-order ll languages such as English. The theory of grammar should account for this va...