One basic feature of the Arabic script is its semicursive style: some letters are connected to the next, but others are not, as in the Uyghur word [see text]/ya xʃi/ ("good"). None of the current orthographic coding schemes in models of visual-word recognition, which were created for the Roman script, assign a differential role to the coding of within letter "chunks" and between letter "chunks"...

Most of the traditional methods English text chunk recognition are solved by setting corresponding phrase identifier numbers and eventually transforming problem into a lexical annotation problem. In language recognition, MFCC features easily contaminated noise have weak immunity due to insufficient amount information on each frame signal. At same time, SDC feature extraction commonly used today...

6 Upon reflection, most people would agree that the words in a sen7 tence are not merely arranged like beads on a string. Rather, the 8 words group together to form coherent building blocks within a 9 sentence. Consider the sentence, The girl liked a boy. Intuitively, 10 the chunks the girl and liked a boy constitute the basic components 11 of this sentence (compared to a simple listing of the ...

This paper introduces a ruled-based method and software tool, called SemAligner, for aligning chunks across texts in a given pair of short English texts. The tool, based on the top performing method at the Interpretable Short Text Similarity shared task at SemEval 2015, where it was used with human annotated (gold) chunks, can now additionally process plain text-pairs using two powerful chunker...

the present study aims at investigating the effect of different levels of lexical collocational density on efl learners’ reading comprehension. eighty sophomore students with different levels of proficiency studying at  zand institute of higher education in shiraz, iran were chosen from among eighty five learners based on their score distribution on a reduced toefl test constructed by education...