The main role and responsibility of second language writing teachers is to help learners to write with minimal errors. To do so, teachers need to provide students with appropriate types of feedback. In this research, the researchers examined the effect of post-text written corrective feedback on written grammatical accuracy of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. In the first phase, Nelson Profic...

Abstract This study examined the effect of two types of feedback, post-text as a written feedback and recast as an oral one on written grammatical accuracy of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. To this end, 45 intermediate students who were studying at Ideal Language Institute in Sari were selected based on their performance on the Nelson proficiency test, and then divided into three groups (tw...

In this paper, we present an overall description of P. S. Post Scriptum. Within this research project, systematic research will be developed, along with the publishing and historical-linguistic study of private letters written in Portugal and Spain along the Modern Ages. The letters included in P. S. Post Scriptum are unpublished manuscripts, written by authors from different social backgrounds...

Abstract We construct a new numerical measure of earnings announcement surprises, standardized unexpected call text (SUE.txt), that does not explicitly incorporate the reported value. SUE.txt generates text-based post-earnings-announcement drift (PEAD.txt) larger than classic PEAD. The magnitude PEAD.txt is considerable even in recent years when PEAD close to 0. explore our empirical model show...

We describe our system for the translation task of WMT 2010. This system, developed for the English-French and FrenchEnglish directions, is based on Moses and was trained using only the resources supplied for the workshop. We report experiments to enhance it with out-of-domain parallel corpora sub-sampling, N-best list post-processing and a French grammatical checker.

The main role and responsibility of second language writing teachers is to help learners to write with minimal errors. To do so, teachers need to provide students with appropriate types of feedback. In this research, the researchers examined the effect of post-text written corrective feedback on written grammatical accuracy of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. In the first phase, Nelson Profic...

This paper describes the Chinese Word Segmenter for the fourth International Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff. Base on Conditional Random Field (CRF) model, a basic segmenter is designed as a problem of character-based tagging. To further improve the performance of our segmenter, we employ a word-based approach to increase the in-vocabulary (IV) word recall and a post-processing to increase ...

This paper proposes a lexicon-constrained character model that combines both word and character features to solve complicated issues in Chinese morphological analysis. A Chinese character-based model constrained by a lexicon is built to acquire word building rules. Each character in a Chinese sentence is assigned a tag by the proposed model. The word segmentation and partof-speech tagging resul...

It is often assumed that raw MT output requires post-editing if it is to be used for more than gisting purposes. However, we know little about how end users engage with raw machine translated text or postedited text, or how usable this text is, in particular if users have to follow instructions and act on them. The research project described here measures the usability of raw machine translated...