This research explores children’s ability to integrate contextual and linguistic cues. Prior work has shown that children are not able to weigh contextual information in an adult-like way and that between the age of 4 and 6 they show difficulties in revising a hypothesis they have made based on earlyarriving linguistic information in sentence processing. Therefore we considered children’s abili...

This study expands upon an existing model of students’ reading comprehension ability within an intelligent tutoring system. The current system evaluates students’ natural language input using a local student model. We examine the potential to expand this model by assessing the linguistic features of self-explanations aggregated across entire passages. We assessed the relationship between 126 st...

Good command of idioms and collocations is an important ability of any natural language speaker. This ability needs to be developed not only in foreign language learners but also in people wishing to enhance their linguistic competence in the native language. Since systematic description of idiomaticity is still a very difficult issue and linguistic resources focused on idioms and collocations ...