In the context of English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching, textbooks play crucial role in classroom primary source lexical input for learners. Thus, it is essential that can sufficiently facilitate learners their overall comprehension and vocabulary learning, especially with most frequent words English. The study examined load locally-published EFL textbook Vietnam high school students foc...

Word alignment in bilingual corpora has been an active research topic in the Machine Translation research groups. In this paper, we describe an alignment system that aligns English-Myanmar texts at word level in parallel sentences. Essential for building parallel corpora is the alignment of translated segments with source segments. Since word alignment research on Myanmar and English languages ...

We present a browser-based editor for simplifying English text. Given an input sentence, the editor performs both syntactic and lexical simplification. It splits a complex sentence into shorter ones, and suggests word substitutions in drop-down lists. The user can choose the best substitution from the list, undo any inappropriate splitting, and further edit the sentence as necessary. A signific...

Lexical bundles, as fixed-form recurrent word combinations of multiple words, constitute a significant portion academic writing and play pivotal role in producing fluent texts. Extant studies on lexical bundles have documented difficulties that second language learners, particularly writers experience these their writing. However, despite an extensive existing body research the use various fiel...

Thisstudy sought to evaluate the learners'''' achievements with the visual learning style when exposed to the sentence making and word list approaches. On that account, 45 basic level participants who studied at the Iran Language Institute (ILI), Bushehr, took part in this research study. At the outset, the learners were given Barsch learning style inventory (1991) to determine the learners''''...

Correlate tweets with weather at corresponding location Mathematica’s WeatherData package Uses National Weather Service data For each of the 20 metropolitan areas, every hour: Cloud cover, Humidity, Precipitation, Temperature ,Wind speed Data Most methods for sentiment analysis use scored word lists Affective Norms of English Words (ANEW) Wilson, Wiebe and Hoffmann (WWH) Hu and Liu (HL) Can we ...

This paper investigates a special type of recurrent expressions, lexical bundles, defined as a sequence of three or more words that co-occur frequently in a particular register (Biber et al., 1999). Considering the importance of this group of multi-word sequences in academic prose, this study explores the forms and syntactic structures of three- and four-word bundles in English abstracts writte...