Semantic Orientation refers to the positive or negative attitude, standpoint or opinion on a certain person, object or affair. It is of degree diversity and combinability. Rule-based computation of SO for Chinese sentence, after pre-processing the input sentence in lexical and dependency syntax analysis, takes advantage of the syntax analysis results and combines the pre-compiled dictionary res...

We describe the design, development, and API for two discourse parsers for Rhetorical Structure Theory. The two parsers use the same underlying framework, but one uses features that rely on dependency syntax, produced by a fast shift-reduce parser, whereas the other uses a richer feature space, including both constituentand dependency-syntax and coreference information, produced by the Stanford...

In this paper, we deal with information retrieval approach based on language model paradigm, which has been intensively investigated in recent years. We propose, implement, and evaluate an enrichment of language model employing syntactic dependency information acquired automatically from both documents and queries. By testing our model on the Czech test collection from Cross Language Evaluation...

The paper casts a critical eye on those dependency grammars (DGs) that view linear order as derived from hierarchical order. It argues that MTT is such a DG insofar as language synthesis begins with a semantic representation, progresses through syntactic representations that lack linear order, and then proceeds to the morphological and phonological representations that include linear order. The...

This paper raises and discusses three questions about the structure of Meaning-Text Theory, based on consideration of the role that paradigmatic Lexical Functions play in its model of the lexicon: Is the paradigmatic-syntagmatic distinction meaningful? Do paradigmatic LFs represent redundant semantic information (and if so, is the redundancy justified)? And finally, might definitions of lexemes...

In this example, however, by the moment the word is has been read, the word p r o b l e m is already engaged in other strongly predicted constructions, namely the prepositional phrase of" this p r o b l e m and even the whole noun phrase the s o l u t i o n o f this p r o b l e m . A conflict arises, and plausibility of the new hypothesis becomes much lower. Such syntactic relations may concern...

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has recently been the focus of numerous studies in language education since it aims to overcome the pitfalls of form-focused and meaning-focused instruction by systematically integrating content and language. This meta-analysis aims to synthesize the findings of 22 primary studies that tested the effect of CLIL on language skills and components. G...

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Task-modality has been found to constrain the production of LREs in adults and children. However, there are no studies with young learners that have offered a comprehensive analysis LREs. To this end, paper will examine effect task-modality on features targeted them, as well their level engagement/elaboration during primary-school learners’ performance task containing both an oral written compo...

One of the Prose styles of the contemporary world is focused on the reflection of the outer world on the world of the story. This is widely used in the works of realist and naturalist Iranian writers. Sadegh Chubak, one of the prominent contemporary writers, has achieved a unique language by presenting the reality in his artistic prose. The aim of this research is to analyze the process of crea...