tions that, up until that time, had only received an episodic focus. One drawback of the book is that the authors cover a wide gamut of topics. Consequently, disease-specifi c topics are presented without adequately providing the necessary background on the disease entity to the reader. Not all readers may fully understand the necessary disease-specifi c background that would make the discussio...

We are developing a CMS including document authoring feature based on wiki to publish structural mathematical documents on the Web. Using this system, users can write documents including mathematical expressions written in LATEX notation and explicitly stated characteristic structures of mathematical articles such as definitions, theorems, and proofs. Documents input to the system is published ...

XML information retrieval (XML-IR) systems utilize the logical structure of XML documents for retrieving relevant elements. From a practical point of view, displaying the search results of XML-IR systems is important to achieve. When we search XML documents that are constructed by marking up documents originally composed of pages, such as scholarly articles or books, we would like result elemen...

In this chapter, we present a complementary pair of experiments on the way users edit Wikipedia. First, we look at the macro scale, quantitatively categorising the types of edits users made. Then, we look at the micro scale, qualitatively studying the rationale and process of individual editors. These experiments form part of a broader project looking into the potentially beneficial relationshi...

Traditional phrase matching approaches, which can discover documents containing exactly the same phrases, fail to detect documents including phrases that are semantically relevant, but not exact matches. We propose a correlation-based phrase matching (CPM) model that can detect RSS news articles which contain not only phrases that are exactly the same but also semantically relevant, which dicta...

Background and Objective: The evaluation of the publishing trend of articles in various scientific fields provides an insight into the efforts of researchers in the field of knowledge. Accordingly, the present study has evaluated and analyzed the scientific publications on brucellosis conducted by Iranian researchers using scientometrics methods and analysis of social networks. Methods: The pr...

this study investigated the effects of two types of written feedback – direct corrective feedback (dcf) and metalinguistic explanation (me) - on iranian efl learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge of english definite and indefinite articles. assigned to three groups of dcf, me, and control groups, the participants took four tests in three testing phases: pretest, posttest, and delayed posttes...

the main purpose of this study was to examine the citation patterns of discussion sections employed by local and international article writers in esp and egp subdisciplines of applied linguistics. eighty article discussion sections were selected from well-established local and international journals in the field of applied linguistics, and they were sorted according to thompson and tribble’s (2...

Text retrieval systems store a great variety of documents, from abstracts, newspaper articles, and web pages to journal articles, books, court transcripts, and legislation. Collections of diverse types of documents expose shortcomings in current approaches to ranking. Use of short fragments of documents, called passages, instead of whole documents can overcome these shortcomings: passage rankin...