This paper discusses two problems central to the interpretation of utterances: determining the relationship between actions described in an utterance and events in the world, and inferring the "state of the world" from utterances. Knowledge of the language, knowledge about the general subject being discussed, and knowledge about the current situation are all necessary for this. The problem of d...

This study attempted to investigate writing problems and the relationship between expert-assessment and self-assessment of writing problems. Participants were thirty four non-English faculty members of Tehran and Guilan universities. The instruments were writing an essay on the topic "What teaching strategies do you use in your classes?" in twenty five lines and filling the questionnaire of wri...

Abstract This paper examines the use of prayers that are denoted by verb euchomai , and their function as a means affecting cognitive/emotional disposition people in forensic, symbouleutic epideictic orations. It is argued (references to) may be explicit or implicit character, they serve variety purposes: to secure goodwill audience for speaker; present his character civic/political qualities p...

This paper describes the techniques used for our system participating in the Document Understanding Conference 2006. We describe a new system, built from scratch, that focuses primarily on collecting models of possible answers for each question from the Internet, and applying those models to select the answer sentences from the documents in the collection. The system performed averagely in the ...