Writing thesis is a process of constant interaction between the student and academic advisor, but writing correctly is a complex task for students even if they have the support of a teacher. The elaboration of the thesis document requires the implementation of a methodology and procedures, which constitute the elements of the format and structure in the thesis. This work shows an intelligent tu...

Guiding students on writing is a hard and time consuming chore for advisors, since requires several iterations before achieving an acceptable level. Normally, when advising students close to graduation, most questions are about the structure of the thesis project. Issues such as the correct wording or abuse of certain terms within a title, problem statement, objectives and justification become ...

Numerous studies have been carried out to find the relation between neighborhood effect and retention of lexical items. This study was an attempt to find such a relationship among Iranian EFL learners. Participants, advanced second English learners, were chosen based on the Oxford Placement Test. Participants completed a lexical decision task that was designed and performed by a computer softwa...

Abstract Whether it is based on philological data or reconstruction, historical linguistics formulates etymological hypotheses that entail changes both in form and meaning. Semantic change can be understood as a “patterns of lexification”, i. e., correspondences between forms senses. Thus polysemous word, which once lexified senses s1–s2–s3, evolves so later encodes s2–s3–s4. Meanings used to c...

The term lexical approach was introduced in 1993 by Michael Lewis, who observed that "language consists of grammaticalized lexis, not lexicalised grammar" (The Lexical Approach, 1993).

Lexical Simplification is the task of replacing individual words of a text with words that are easier to understand, so that the text as a whole becomes easier to comprehend, e.g. by people with learning disabilities or by children who learn to read. Although this seems like a straightforward task, evaluating algorithms for this task is not so. The problem is how to build a dataset that provide...

The current paper is aimed at corpus-based differentiation of near-synonymous lexemes with the meaning ‘to destroy’. research implies a series consecutive steps: to discuss synonymy-related problems in modern linguistics; compile list destroy’ by means Corpus Contemporary American English (COCA); analyze and compare definitions chosen verbs Merriam-Webster Dictionary (MWD); generate lists right...

The past decade has seen significant advances in modeling gradient preferences of English speakers using grammars with probabilistic rules, constraint rankings, or weights inferred from the statistical properties of the lexicon (Coleman and Pierrehumbert 1997; Treiman, Kessler, Knewasser, Tincoff, and Bowman 2000; Frisch, Large, and Pisoni 2000; Bailey and Hahn 2001; Hammond 2004; Hayes and Wil...