Web pages provide not only plain text materials for training language models but also tag information for semantics annotation. The tags could be found either explicitly in the HTML documents or implicitly through the directory hierarchy of the documents, since the directory hierarchy can be regarded as a kind of classification tree for web documents, which assigns an implicit hidden tag to eac...

Translation can have long-term effects on all languages and cultures. It is not a mere linguistic act, but mostly a cultural act, since language is by nature one of the major carriers of cultural elements. Thus, the translator’s job is not just transferring the meaning of words and sentences from the source text to the target text. Culture-specific items often cause translation problems. Identi...

Translation can have long-term effects on all languages and cultures. It is not a mere linguistic act, but mostly a cultural act, since language is by nature one of the major carriers of cultural elements. Thus, the translator’s job is not just transferring the meaning of words and sentences from the source text to the target text. Culture-specific items often cause translation problems. Identi...

Removal of stop words is essential in Natural Language Processing and text-related analysis. Existing works on Malay are based standard Quranic/Arabic translations into Malay. Thus, there a lack domain-specific word list, making it discordant for processing parliamentary discourse. In this paper, we propose semantic approach towards identifying removing Malay, conventional spelling English func...

With the explosive growth of Internet, more and more domain-specific environments appear, such as forums, blogs, MOOCs and etc. Domain-specific words appear in these areas and always play a critical role in the domain-specific NLP tasks. This paper aims at extracting Chinese domain-specific new words automatically. The extraction of domain-specific new words has two parts including both new wor...

one of the basic questions in the domain of lexical access and the process of word recognition in mental lexicon is how the native speaker can access the meaning of new complex words in his/her language and what factors affect  its speed? the aim of this study was to investigate empirically effective factors on the speed of lexical access to the derived words in persian mental lexicon. if we kn...

background: in-service educational courses have made the organization employees more capable of solving problems, making decisions and analyzing the job. educational programs should be based on educational needs. so aim of present research was to determinate educational need assessments of employees affiliated to dezful university of medical sciences regarding in-service educational courses in ...

The present corpus-based lexical study reports the development of a Pharmacy Academic Word List (PAWL); a list of the most frequent words from a corpus of 3,458,445 tokens made up of 800 most recent pharmacy texts including research articles, review articles, and short communications in four sub-disciplines of pharmacy. WordSmith (Scott, 2017) and AntWordProfiler (Anthony, 2014) were used to sc...