This experimental study examined the effectiveness of using focused and unfocused tasks on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ performance in producing noun, adjective, and adverb clauses. In addition,the aim of this study was to explore the effects of form-focused instruction and the feedback students received from their teacher after doing focused grammar tasks. Data consisted of the scores of...

H. RAHAMI, A. KAVEH, M. ARDALAN ASL AND S.R. MIRGHADERI School of Engineering Science, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, I. R. of Iran Centre of Excellence for Fundamental Studies in Structural Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran, I. R. of Iran Email: [email protected] 3, School of Civil Engineering, College of Engin...

In this paper, we offer broad insight into the underperformance of Arabic constituency parsing by analyzing the interplay of linguistic phenomena, annotation choices, and model design. First, we identify sources of syntactic ambiguity understudied in the existing parsing literature. Second, we show that although the Penn Arabic Treebank is similar to other treebanks in gross statistical terms, ...

In this paper we describe a conversion of the Buckwalter Morphological Analyzer for Arabic, originally written as a Perl-script, into a pure finite-state morphological analyzer. Representing a morphological analyzer as a finite-state transducer (FST) confers many advantages over running a procedural affix-matching algorithm. Apart from application speed, an FST representation immediately offers...

This paper presents an English-Iraqi Arabic speech-to-speech statistical machine translation system using limited resources. In it, we explore the constraints involved, how we endeavored to mitigate such problems as a non-standard orthography and a highly inflected grammar, and discuss leveraging existing plentiful resources for Modern Standard Arabic to assist in this task. These combined tech...

on the basis of discourse grammar (dg), this study investigates the expression of  yæ'ni in persian. the term was originally borrowed from arabic and has undergone the process of grammaticalization. it exhibits different pragmatic functions to characterize changes involved in the evolution of this discourse marker. the study suggests that grammaticalization of yæ'ni should be analyzed...