The collocation of software development teams is common, especially in agile software development environments. However little is known about the impact of collocation on the team’s effectiveness. This paper explores the impact of collocating agile software development teams on a number of team effectiveness factors. The study focused on South African software development teams and gathered dat...

We present an experiment in extracting collocations from the FrameNet corpus, specifically, support verbs such as direct in Environmentalists directed strong criticism at world leaders. Support verbs do not contribute meaning of their own and the meaning of the construction is provided by the noun; the recognition of support verbs is thus useful in text understanding. Having access to a list of...

We study the numerical solutions to semi-infinite-domain two-point boundary value problems and initial value problems. A smooth, strictly monotonic transformation is used to map the semiinfinite domain x ∈ 0,∞ onto a half-open interval t ∈ −1, 1 . The resulting finite-domain twopoint boundary value problem is transcribed to a system of algebraic equations using ChebyshevGauss CG collocation, wh...

A readability measure that can reliably estimate the difficulty level of sample texts has great potential in ESL teaching. We argue for the inclusion of collocation frequency as a generic factor in estimates of ESL text readability, since the readability of any text will be affected adversely by the presence of collocations. Collocational word combinations are seldom amenable to comprehension s...

The computation schemes of spline-collocation methods for solving singular integral equations. A theoretical foundation of these two methods is obtained in space L2. In the present paper we give theoreticaly justification of the numerical schemes of spline-collocation method for solving the singular integral equations (SIE) of the following form

This paper describes a bootstrapping method for automatically tagging noun compounds with their corresponding semantic relations. Our work takes advantage of the collocation of senses of the noun compound constituents and also word similarity. We exploit this to generate a set of noun compounds from a set of previously tagged noun compounds by replacing one constituent of each noun compound wit...

In this work the collocation method based on quartic B-spline is developed and applied to two-point boundary value problem in ordinary differential equations. The error analysis and convergence of presented method is discussed. The method illustrated by two test examples which verify that the presented method is applicable and considerable accurate. Received: 2 February 2014, Revised: 4 May 201...

In this paper , we show t h a t Reileralion and Collocation re la t ions as in t roduced I)y I la l l iday and l lasan may func t ion as lexieally I)iased discourse s t ruc tu re re la t ions and t h a t these re la t ions are well represented by sequences of Mel '&flds Lexical Funclions (Ll,'s). We propose to use Lie sequences for tl,e final de te rminat ion and real izat ion of discourse o rg...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2009.02.026 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (W. Zh Yoshida), [email protected] (X. Tang). One of the deficiencies of mutual information is its poor capacity to measure association of words with unsymmetrical co-occurrence, which has large amounts for multi-word expression in texts. Moreover, thre...

In this paper, we apply the collocation methods to a class of Volterra integral functional equations with multiple proportional delays (VIFEMPDs). We shall present the existence, uniqueness and regularity properties of analytic solutions for this type of equations, and then analyze the convergence orders of the collocation solutions and give corresponding error estimates. The numerical results ...