We examined neural indices of pre-attentive phonological and attentional auditory discrimination in children with developmental language disorder (DLD, n = 23) and typically developing (n = 16) peers from a geographically isolated Russian-speaking population with an elevated prevalence of DLD. Pre-attentive phonological MMN components were robust and did not differ in two groups. Children with ...

Clinical audiologists were surveyed to determine the terms that their patients use to describe their reaction to hearing aid fitting problems. From this survey, a vocabulary of 40 frequently reported terms was developed. A second survey of hearing aid fitting experts was conducted to determine their methods of troubleshooting a hearing aid fitting when the patient reports one of the frequently ...

We describe the challenges presented by the assessment and presentation of knowledge components in the language learning domain, with particular attention to vocabulary acquisition. This paper first discusses the fact that the meaning of words is not as well formalized as many topics in better-defined domains such as mathematics. There follows a comparison of the number of knowledge components ...

The AVENTINUS project is supported by the EU Commission under the Telematics Program. Its aim is to provide software components and linguistic resources to drug enforcement authorities to improve multilingual communication and information processing. Components of the system are tools for translation such as machine translation, translation memory and terminology databases, information extracti...

This paper investigates the role of ontologies as a central part of an architecture to repurpose existing material from the web. A prototype system called ArtEquAKT is presented, which combines information extraction, knowledge management and consolidation techniques and adaptive document generation. All of these components are co-ordinated using one central ontology, providing a common vocabul...

The Ritel project aims at integrating spoken language dialog and open-domain information retrieval to allow a human to ask general questions (e.g. Who is currently presiding the French Senate?) and refine her search interactively. This project is at the junction of several distinct research communities, and has therefore several challenges to tackle: real-time streamed speech recognition with v...

raven progressive matrices (rpms) and wechsler intelligence scale for children (wsic-r) are two common general intelligence measuring scales used in iranian high schools. in this paper the relationships between g factor scales and students’ reading comprehension, grammar, and vocabulary was examined by correlation and regression analysis. standard tests of grammar and vocabulary and cambridge k...

this study was conducted to compare the impact of two vocabulary learning techniques, namely context learning and translation learning, on vocabulary recall of sixty pre-university iranian learners of english as a foreign language. they were divided into two groups of high and low proficient. in regard to two vocabulary learning conditions, each group was divided into two subgroups of fifteen. ...