Abstract Academic lectures are potential sources of vocabulary learning for second language learners studying at universities where English is the medium instruction, as well those in Purposes (EAP) programs. Topic-related likely to occur frequently academic texts, and speech consists a reasonable proportion occurring sequences words. Yet no intervention studies have explored single words collo...

Finding the semantic similarity between biological texts, specially short texts, such as article abstracts and experiment descriptions of microarrays, may throw important information for experts in that field. To date, these methods have not been widely explored. In this paper, a comparison of different measures to calculate the semantic similarity of pairs of short biological texts is presente...

Exploring expository texts presents an interesting and important challenge. They are read routinely and extensively in the form of online newspapers, web-based articles, reports, technical and academic papers. We present a system, called Texplore, which assists readers in exploring the content of expository texts. The system provides two mechanisms for text exploration, an expandable outline th...

The ever-growing number of published scientific papers prompts the need for automatic knowledge extraction to help scientists keep up with the state-of-the-art in their respective fields. To construct a good knowledge extraction system, annotated corpora in the scientific domain are required to train machine learning models. As described in this paper, we have constructed an annotated corpus fo...

Domjan and Purdy' s (July 1995) article made explicit three facts that teachers of psychology may not know but have long suspected: (a) Authors of general psychology textbooks cite animal experiments without mentioning that animal subjects were used; (b) authors discuss important concepts (e.g., motivation research) without mentioning that the work was based on animal experiments; and (c) autho...

Reading is recognized as being the most important skill needed by ESP learners in their field of study, and vocabulary knowledge is the most widely discussed component of effective ESP reading per se. However, research on how much the different types of words exert substantial influences over ESP reading comprehension remains scanty. To address this lacuna, the present study aimed to examine th...