Learning is a level-progressing process. In any field of study, one must master basic concepts to understand more complex ones. Thus, it is important that during the learning process, that learners are presented and challenged with knowledge which they are able to comprehend (not a level below, not a level too high). In this work we focus on language learners. By gradually improving (complicati...

In this study we introduce AdjScales, a method for scaling similar adjectives by their strength. It combines existing Web-based computational linguistic techniques in order to automatically differentiate between similar adjectives that describe the same property by strength. Though this kind of information is rarely present in most of the lexical resources and dictionaries, it may be useful for...

Event-related Potentials (ERPs) were recorded to both tuditory and visual stimuli from the scalps of nine autistic males and4re normal, ) controls to examine the differences in information processing strategies. ( Subjects were tested on three different tasks (in the following order): 1) an auditory missing stimulus paradigm; 2) a visual color.dischriminition; 'and 3) an auditory tone discrimin...

considering teaching persian by safar moghaddam (2012), the present research aimed to design an intelligent tutoring system based on two natural language processing engines in order to teach persian to english speakers. the system basically works by comparing logical forms derived from both languages and reports anomalies in the system. to do so, 60 applicants were randomly selected through ped...