the aim of this study is to investigate iranian tefl graduates’ conception of measurement error in research. adopting a sequential explanatory multi-method strategy (borg, 2009), the researchers analyzed causal and temporal relations in the research narratives elicited from 30 tefl graduates. gee’s (1986) framework for identifying narrative discourse units (lines, stanzas, and episodes) was ado...

We propose a method of automatic identification of various error types in machine translation output. The approach is mostly based on monolingual word alignment of the hypothesis and the reference translation. In addition to common lexical errors misplaced words are also detected. A comparison to manually classified MT errors is presented. Our error classification is inspired by that of Vilar (...

We develop a model for predicting the probability of incorrect, random matches when using a geometric hashing based recognition scheme. To estimate the vote for random matches we approximate the voting function by a discrete function and use the binomial distribution. The resulting probability distribution of votes for random matches is compared with experiments that have a set of artificially ...