Abstract: Over the last few decades, several aspects of pragmatic knowledge and its effects on teaching  and  learning  a  second  language  (L2)  have  been  explored  in  many  studies.  However, among  various  studies,  the  area  of  interlanguage  pragmatic  (ILP)  assessment  is  quite  novel issue and many features of it have remained unnoticed. As ILP assessment has received more atten...

few, if any, studies have investigated the effect of professional experience as a rater variable and type of assessment as a task variable on raters’ criteria in the assessment of speech acts. this study aimed to explore the impact of nonnative teachers’ professional experience on the use of criteria in monologic and dialogic assessment of 12 role-plays of 3 apology speech acts. to this end, 60...

nanoparticles classified in 4 overall groups containing: metallic nanoparticles, ceramic nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles and semiconductor nanoparticles. these nanoparticles are used in some biomedical applications such as carrying medicine and photographing agents. with attention to different criteria which are both qualitative and quantitative, selecting the most suitable nanoparticles...

Despite the importance of interlanguage pragmatic rating (ILP) in the second language teaching and learning context, scant attention has been devoted to it. This study aims to investigate native EFL teachers’ major criteria in assessing the speech act of complaint produced by Iranian EFL learners. To fulfill this end, two groups of experienced native raters, including American (n=47) and Britis...

One of the most widespread multi-criteria decision-making methods is Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP successfully combines pairwise comparisons method and hierarchical approach. It allows decision-maker to set priorities for all ranked alternatives. But what if, some them, their ranking value known (e.g., it can be determined differently)? The Heuristic Rating Estimation (HRE) proposed in...

We present a framework for the Induction of Functional Logic Programs (IFLP) from facts. This can be seen as an extension to the now consolidated field of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP). Inspired in the inverse resolution operator of ILP, we study the reversal of narrowing, the more usual operational mechanism for Functional Logic Programming. We also generalize the selection criteria for gu...

Graded classification occurs in many areas of IT, e.g. user preference, relevance, rating, investment, business competitiveness but also in IR, semantic web, multimedia databases. In this paper we define the graded classification ILP task. Namely having a classified learning data, we want to learn the classification function depending on other attributes. We introduce a procedure based on multi...