the present study investigated comparatively the impact of two types of input enhancement (i.e. textual vs. compound enhancement) on developing grammar ability in iranian efl setting. sixty-five female secondary high school students were selected as a homogenous sample out of about a 100-member population based on nelson language proficiency test. then, their grammar ability was measured based ...

In this paper, we describe a method for extracting biological relations (in the first place, relations used in the KEGG ontology of biological pathways) from scientific texts. The main assumption is that correct syntactic analysis combined with domain-specific heuristics provides a good basis for relation extraction. We propose an algorithm that searches through the syntactic trees produced by ...

As indicated by many researchers (Lecomte, 1998; Cornell, 1997) the minimalist framework as worked out in the Minimalist Program (Chomsky, 1995) and the resource conscious logics such as Multimodal Categorial Grammar (Moortgat, 1996) show many similarities. The two theories are the product of distinct scientific traditions, but they aim to give a similar explanation for grammatical knowledge an...

This review article discusses some problems and needs for clarification that are connected with the use of the concepts culture, language, tool, and communication in Daniel Everett’s recently published book, Language: The Cultural Tool. It also discusses whether the idea of biological readiness and preparedness for language (rather than grammar) can really be disposed of as a result of Everett’...

The term contrastive grammar is still ambiguous. In this paper we trace the unjustified synonymy of terms (confrontative grammar, comparative grammar) which lead to controversy among linguists and attempt introduce appropriate clarifications explain phenomenon. We can state that linguistic direction quite new, its metalanguage in process development formation. When studying modern scientific fu...

-A top-down approach to the determination of grammar engineering methods for the construction of Natural Language Grammars for Question Answering Systems based on Intelligent Text Mining for Biomedical applications is presented in the present paper. Our proposal is to start with the formulation of the ultimate task goal such as specialized question answering and derive from it the specification...

La versión en inglés de este ensayo, “Learning the Grammar of Animacy”, fue publicada originalmente el libro Braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and teachings plants, publicado por Milkweed Editions, 2013. Una previa se publicó The Leopold Outlook, 2012.

The present study investigated comparatively the impact of two types of input enhancement (i.e. textual vs. compound enhancement) on developing grammar ability in Iranian EFL setting. Sixty-five female secondary high school students were selected as a homogenous sample out of about a 100-member population based on Nelson language proficiency test. Then, their grammar ability was measured based ...