The application of translation in EFL classes has been subject debate since the perspective second language learning (SLL) changed to a more communicative one thanks methodologies like Direct method or Communicative approach. Nonetheless, it is now living revival because increase use ICT. Some recent research concluded that L1 general may be beneficial for confidence students and accuracy. spec...

In this paper a sentence compression tool is described. We describe how an input sentence gets analysed by using a.o. a tagger, a shallow parser and a subordinate clause detector, and how, based on this analysis, several compressed versions of this sentence are generated, each with an associated estimated probability. These probabilities were estimated from a parallel transcript/subtitle corpus...