the growing attention to formulaic sequences during the last decade indicates that the functional features of such sequences play a crucial role in writing. formulaic sequences are prefabricated linguistic components which are stored and retrieved as a whole. the present study aims to examine the functional features of such sequences in persian writings. to do so, 10 writing samples of persian ...

This study investigates the Voice Onset Time (VOT) of stop consonant production in six bilingual English-Arabic children in order to examine whether bilingual children possess one unitary or two separate linguistic systems. A total of six English-Arabic bilingual children participated ages 5 to 10. English and Arabic stop consonants followed by a vowel /a/ made by bilingual children were measur...

In this study we elaborate a road map for the conversion of a traditional lexical syntactico-semantic resource for French into a linguistic linked open data (LLOD) model. Our approach uses current best-practices and the analyses of earlier similar undertakings (lemonUBY and PDEV-lemon) to tease out the most appropriate representation for our resource.

This paper investigates the potential use of dialog-based ALICEbots in disseminating terrorism information to the general public. In particular, we study the acceptance and response satisfaction of ALICEbot responses in both the general conversation and terrorism domains. From our analysis of three different knowledge sets: general conversation, terrorism, and combined, we found that users were...

This paper describes a process of building a bilingual syntactically annotated corpus, the PCEDT (Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank). The corpus is being created at Charles University, Prague, and the release of this corpus as Linguistic Data Consortium data collection is scheduled for the spring of 2004. The paper discusses important decisions made prior to the start of the project and ...

To relax the Term Independence Assumption, Term Dependency is introduced and it has improved retrieval precision dramatically. There are two kinds of term dependencies, one is defined by term proximity, and the other is defined by linguistic dependencies. In this paper, we take a comparative study to re-examine these two kinds of term dependencies in dependence language model framework. Syntact...

We explore a hybrid approach for Chinese definitional question answering by combining deep linguistic analysis with surface pattern learning. We answer four questions in this study: 1) How helpful are linguistic analysis and pattern learning? 2) What kind of questions can be answered by pattern matching? 3) How much annotation is required for a pattern-based system to achieve good performance? ...

The subject of this research is linguistic (or: language) audit. The term is new and not being widely used so far. Linguistic audit, in particular, is offered as a service of linguistic-consulting agencies’ activities. Modern linguistic consulting, according to the author, is a form of stimulating theoretical and practical development of linguistic ecology, a new branch of applied linguistics, ...

Pattern analysj s using syntacti c methods is discussed briefly to introduce the ideas of the linguistic nature of the attributes and of possi-bl e invariance properties versus usual geometrica] t ran sformations. A linguistic operator invariant for projec-ti ons from plane to plane is proposed and appli ed to the analysis of point patterns X. From knowled ge of the operator "result" or "attrib...