Density, diameter distribution and height-diameter (H-D) pattern of a forest stand are of primary importance in deriving various stand characteristics, but measuring diameters and heights of a tree stock is rather time-consuming. That is why theoretical diameter distribution and H-D models are usually employed. We examine the prediction of them for Scots pine sample plots using information obta...

We describe the resourcing, development, use and evaluation of interactive multimedia courseware in language and linguistics teaching and learning at three institutions of higher education in Edinburgh who collaborated on thèClick and Listen' project. It also addresses several topics, arising from our experiences with`Click and Listen', some that are of relevence to CAL generally and others tha...

Texts are routinely simplified to make them more comprehensible for second language learners. However, the effects of simplification upon the linguistic features of texts remain largely unexplored. Here we examine the effects of one type of text simplification: intuitive text simplification. We use the computational tool, Coh-Metrix, to examine linguistic differences between proficiency levels ...

The present study has been designed to investigate the exclusive and inclusive uses of deixis ‘ma’ in artistic and scientific texts. It intends to indicate the communicative role of this pronoun, i.e., the way in which it is applied by authors to communicate with their readers. The analysis is based on qualitative and quantitative perspectives by using a Persian monolingual corpus. In the prese...

We propose a new similarity measure between texts which, contrary to the current state-of-the-art approaches, takes a global view of the texts to be compared. We have implemented a tool to compute our textual distance and conducted experiments on several corpuses of texts. The experiments show that our methods can reliably identify different global types of texts.

This paper describes BABYLON, a system that attempts to overcome the shortage of parallel texts in low-density languages by supplementing existing parallel texts with texts gathered automatically from the Web. In addition to the identification of entire Web pages, we also propose a new feature specifically designed to find parallel text chunks within a single document. Experiments carried out o...

According to current theories of reading, the reader's saccades are guided primarily by spaces between words, clearly the most prominent visual feature in most modern texts. This belief was investigated by recording eye movements with unprecedented accuracy and precision while subjects read spaced and unspaced passages both silently and aloud. Modest increases in fixation durations and decrease...