ESP students are usually suggested to master general and academic word lists such as Wests’ (1953) General Service List (GSL) and Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) to be able to read their academic texts. However, it seems that university students may not need to learn all the words in the two lists as some words in the lists are of less frequency in academic texts. Moreover, there are ...

This article cursorily discussed the views of Karl Barth and perichoresis doctrine on Holy Trinity. The aim was to discuss how both almost touch fact that God is one, although they do not admit it. They rather maintain classic conviction (‘default idea’) consists three hypostases (Persons) in one ousia (Being). Barth’s view has different Seinsweisen, indicating reveals himself humankind as Fath...

muslim scholars differ widely on the meaning of the pure word ‘lā illāha illa allāh’ (there is no god expect for god) and its indication to monotheism. a number of possibilities have been raised pertaining to this exalted verse and if some of them are accepted as true, the word tawhīd will not signify complete unity and monotheism. after thoroughly examining the meanings claimed for the words e...

Analysis of customer feedback helps improve customer service. Much online customer feedback takes the form of online reviews, but the tremendous volume of such data makes manual classification impractical, raising the need for automatic classification to allow analysis systems to identify meanings or intentions expressed by customers. The aim of shared Task 4 of IJCNLP 2017 is to classify custo...

There is a growing body of research showing the importance of durational information for the disambiguation of temporarily ambiguous speech due to lexical embedding (e.g., rye in rises) in laboratory settings. The current research investigates whether durational differences are present in nonlaboratory speech. We focus on two types of speech: read speech and speech taken from interviews. Durati...

Many syntactic approaches view word order as a derivative property of phrase-structure. An alternative is that word order is a learned property of constructions or even lexemes. What distributional patterns might provide evidence of lexeme-specific word order? A minimal grammatical pair is presented from Yurok, an Algic language of northwestern California. Words of the same general category and...

Interest in dependency parsing increased because of its efficiency to represent languages with flexible word order. Many research have applied dependency-based syntactic analysis to different languages and results vary depending on the nature of the language. Languages with more flexible word order structure tend to have lower performances compared to more fixed word order languages. This work ...