the importance of vocabulary learning has been underlined in the field of english for academic purposes (eap) because non-english majors who require reading english texts in their fields of study have to expand their english vocabulary knowledge much more efficiently than ordinary esl/efl learners. since academic vocabulary instruction in iranian universities is realized through the use of gene...

Information extraction systems need a previous processing step in order to recognize coreferential elements, such as personal name variants. This paper has two aims: the first is to describe the main types of personal name coreference found in encyclopedic and journalistic texts in Spanish. Furthermore, we introduce an algorithm that solves most coreferential links between personal name variant...

This thesis builds upon our current understanding of text reuse by proposing a hypothetical framework of text reuse and applying this abstract definition to a specific domain, that of journalistic reuse. The framework aims to explore a suitable measure of reuse and determine suitable discriminators for document derivation. Although text can be reused verbatim (word-for-word), in most cases, tex...

Informative aspects represent the basic units of information in texts. For example, in news texts they could represent the following information: what happened, when it happened and where it happened. With the identification of these aspects, it is possible to automate some NLP tasks such as Summarization, Question Answering and Information Extraction. Microaspects --a type of informative aspec...

We sought to understand  whether,  how, and  why the translated journalistic texts  related  to  the  Iranian  nuclear  negotiations  were manipulated. To this end,  we  monitored  a news agency’s Webpage in a time span of 46 days that began 3 days before Almaty I nuclear talks and ended  3  days  after  Almaty  II  talks.  Monitoring  resulted  in  a  corpus  made  up  of  36  target  texts  p...

The different writing systems of English and Persian makes translation of acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations challenging. This study aimed at finding which strategies were applied most frequently in translating acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations from English to Persian especially in journalistic texts. The study was done based n Descriptive Translation Study of Toury and strategies pr...

Despite the abundance of research investigating general and academic vocabularies and developing dozens of word lists, few studies have compared academic vocabulary with general service word lists such as conversation vocabulary. Many EAP researchers assume that university students need to know all the words in West’s (1953) General Service List (GSL) as a prerequisite to academic words (e.g., ...