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In this paper we investigate the task of text simplification for Brazilian Portuguese. Our purpose is three-fold: to introduce a simplification tool for such language and its underlying development methodology, to present an on-line authoring system of simplified text based on the previous tool, and finally to discuss the potentialities of such technology for education. The resources and tools ...

The programming is one of the most important factors in the education of computer literacy. However, in the initial learning of the programming, many students often have faced a simple problem, like syntax-error by careless or miss typing. Therefore, they feel that the programming is too hard. The most important problem is the student can't take advantage of the error messages with displayed fr...

Parse-tree paths are commonly used to incorporate information from syntactic parses into NLP systems. These systems typically treat the paths as atomic (or nearly atomic) features; these features are quite sparse due to the immense variety of syntactic expression. In this paper, we propose a general method for learning how to iteratively simplify a sentence, thus decomposing complicated syntax ...

One main complexity of the copula constructions concerns a mismatch between morphology and syntactic constituency: the copula seems to form a morphological unit with the immediately preceding element, whereas in terms of syntax the copula appears to take this as its syntactic complement. In capturing such mismatches, we show that the copula is treated as an independent verb at the level of tect...

BACKGROUND Chief Residents must lead, manage and mentor a diverse and often large group of residents, however there is a lack of formal leadership training throughout graduate medical education. OBJECTIVE Development of a 3-part Chief Resident (CR) Program focused on leading, managing and mentoring. DESIGN Each participant completes an Emotional Intelligence (EI) Inventory prior to the day-...