We present a method for lexical simplification. Simplification rules are learned from a comparable corpus, and the rules are applied in a context-aware fashion to input sentences. Our method is unsupervised. Furthermore, it does not require any alignment or correspondence among the complex and simple corpora. We evaluate the simplification according to three criteria: preservation of grammatica...

second language  learners often develop grammatical competence in the absence of concomitant pragmatic competence (kasper & roever, 2005) and the exact nature of the relationship between the two competences is still indistinct and in need of inquiries ( bardovi-harlig, 1999; khatib & ahmadisafa, 2011). this study is a partial attempt to address the lacuna and aims to see if any relation...

Causal relations of various kinds are a pervasive feature of human language and theorising about the world. Despite this, the specification of a satisfactory general analysis of causal relations has long proved difficult. This paper provides a syntactic and semantic classification of cause-effect lexico-syntactic patterns for automatic detection and extraction of causation relationships in Engl...

Integrating concept and citation networks on a specific research subject can help researchers focus their own work or use methods described in prior works. In this paper, we propose a method to extract semantic relations from concepts and citation in the descriptions of related work. Specifically, we examined (i) topic-paper relations between research topics and reference papers and (ii) method...

The aim of this work is to nd sub-typed Geographic Named Entities from the analysis of relations between Place Names surrounded nominal group within a speci c phrasal context in a set of textual documents. The paper presents a method involving natural language processing and heterogeneous resources like gazetteers, thesauri or ontologies. The work and the results focus a French language corpus....

Amid the proliferation of online news portals, there is a felt need for reinvestigation millennial students’ metalinguistic knowledge (MK) on technicality headlines. Couched within Relevance Theory, including interlarding theories Communicative Competence and Monitor Hypothesis, this study investigated 80 technical selected 35 headlines vis-à-vis academic disciplines exposure to headlines/news ...

In dialog, most words fit nicely with their prosodic context. This enables the prediction of which words are likely to come next, given the recent prosodic context, an ability which is of practical utility. However anomalies exist, cases where the word that comes next seems to be a mismatch for its prosodic context. Examination of 60 such lexico-prosodic anomalies in the Switchboard telephone d...

Automated methods for identifying whether sentences are grammatical have various potential applications (e.g., machine translation, automated essay scoring, computer-assisted language learning). In this work, we construct a statistical model of grammaticality using various linguistic features (e.g., misspelling counts, parser outputs, n-gram language model scores). We also present a new publicl...