different studies in writing skill of second language learners show that they are weak in this skill. they know some vocabularies and grammatical rules but are unable to write a different kinds of texts. the study of contrastive rhetorics can help learners and teachers in this area. moreover, discourse markers that indicate rhetoric styles and principles have an important role in writing skill....

Morphological processes in a language can be effectively used to enrich individual wordnets with semantic relations. More importantly, morphological processes in a language can be used to discover less explicit semantic relations in other languages. This will both improve the internal connectivity of individual wordnets and also the overlap across different wordnets. Using morphology to improve...

We present a new minimally-supervised framework for performing domain-driven Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). Glossaries for several domains are iteratively acquired from the Web by means of a bootstrapping technique. The acquired glosses are then used as the sense inventory for fullyunsupervised domain WSD. Our experiments, on new and gold-standard datasets, show that our wide-coverage framewo...

This paper describes the system MC-WSD presented for the English Lexical Sample task. The system is based on a multicomponent architecture. It consists of one classifier with two components. One is trained on the data provided for the task. The second is trained on this data and, additionally, on an external training set extracted from the Wordnet glosses. The goal of the additional component i...

eValency Lexicon of Czech Verbs (VALLEX 2.0) is a collection of linguistically annotated data and documentation. It provides information on the valency structure of verbs in their particular meanings / senses, possible morphological forms of their complementations and additional syntactic information, accompanied with glosses and examples. e primary goal of the following text is to briefly de...

Background: Patients undergoing radiotherapy require training through educational media due to the specific nature of this therapeutic modality. Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the efficiency of multimedia and print educational tools in anxiety and self-care behaviors among patients undergoing radiotherapy. Method: This randomized clinical trial was conducted on 60 patients referring ...

This critical literature review provides study details for 36 studies examining the effect of glossing language acquisition among English learners (ELLs). Useful tables include specificity participants, gloss types, target vocabulary items and text information about all studies. An analysis these reveals that is an effective means to enhance reading comprehension ELLs. However, language—whether...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the comparative effect of using electronic short story books and traditional printed texts on efl learners’ reading comprehension. for that purpose, ninety female learners ranging in age between fifteen and thirty five sat for the language proficiency test (pet, 2009) as the test of homogeneity and consequently sixty students were selected based on t...