processing skills and children's idiom comprehension 2 Abstract Two experiments compared 7-to 8-and 9-to 10-year-olds' ability to use semantic analysis and inference from context to understand idioms. We used a multiple-choice task and manipulated whether the idioms were transparent or opaque, familiar or novel, and presented with or without a supportive story context. Performance was compared ...

Collocations whose semantic content is not or only partially composed from the semantic content of their parts are often viewed as problematic for generation. In this paper a tactical generator combining FUF as the generation engine and HPSG as the grammar framework is presented. It is shown, that the lexicon driven approach to syntactic and semantic processing is well-suited for the generation...

The article deals with exploring the potential of IT in process English as a language speciality (English for special purposes, ESP) teaching. authors presented results pedagogical research carried out at National Aviation University, Ukraine. To increase efficiency teaching English, new approach was applied, which based on students’ ability to be engaged online activities and use digital tools...

studies in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance of metaphors for language teaching. metaphoric competence, as an important aspect of intelligence, can contribute to the learning of languages. most textbooks in esl/efl avoid the issue of figurative language and concentrate only on the denotative aspects of language. this article reports a study conducted at the islamic azad univ...

Distributional Semantic Models (DSM) that represent words as vectors of weights over a high dimensional feature space have proved very effective in representing semantic or syntactic word similarity. For certain tasks however it is important to represent contrasting aspects such as polarity, different senses or idiomatic use of words. We present two methods for creating embeddings that take int...

Optimally, a translated text should preserve information while maintaining the writing style of the original. When this is not possible, as is often the case with figurative speech, a common practice is to simplify and make explicit the implications. However, in our investigations of translations from English to another language, English-to-Chinese texts were often found to include idiomatic ex...

Natural languages are full of idiomatic uses, which while translating through present NLP system do not extract variations of idioms and proverbs. To overcome this problem, a new method to extract idioms / proverbs is proposed in this paper. The proposed methodology uses statistical method to automatically extract idioms and proverbs from the text along with their variations. The system is upda...

Objective To describe the translation into Portuguese and cultural adaptation of a Questionnaire addressing High-Alert Medications to the Brazilian context. Methods Methodological study comprising the translation from Chinese to Brazilian Portuguese, synthesis of translations, back translation, panel of experts, and pretest to obtain the final version of the questionnaire. Results <inor lex...

This paper analyses inherent clitics of idiomatic constructions as verbal arguments (Jelinek 1984, Baker 1996, Hale 2003) that are translated as free variables (Delfitto 2002): they are anaphoric to a (hidden) non-referential discourse topic or (right) dislocated constituent. Furthermore, since they denote abstract semantic objects (Asher 1993), they are assumed to be semantically incorporated ...

It is obliged to provide an effective reading support system for CSL (Chinese as Second Language) learners, for recognition and comprehension of CIE (Chinese Idiomatic Expression) in Chinese text are very difficult for them. Though most current research are focusing on Chinese reading support, there is still no perfect system that can provide a convenient support aiming at CIE. In this paper, w...