In this paper we consider a new approach for domain-specific opinion word extraction in Russian. We suppose that some domains have similar sentiment lexicons and utilize this fact to build an opinion word vocabulary for a group of domains. We train our model in movie domain and then utilize it to book and game domains. Obtained word list quality is comparable with quality of initial domain list.

The word identification span refers to the area of the visual field in which words can be identified during a single fixation. The purpose of the study was to estimate the vertical word identification span in a visual word search task, in which words were arranged in a vertical list. In addition, we studied the effect of list layout (orientation, length, and line spacing) on the speed of search...

We propose a language-independent word normalization method exemplified on modernizing historical Slovene words. Our method relies on character-based statistical machine translation and uses only shallow knowledge. We present the relevant lexicons and two experiments. In one, we use a lexicon of historical word– contemporary word pairs and a list of contemporary words; in the other, we only use...

The objectives of this study were to investigate Engineering students’ attitudes and problems in academic reading comprehension and to determine the contribution of academic reading attitude, breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge to academic reading comprehension. The participants were 122 undergraduate students of Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology. The Vocabulary Lev...

We investigate how to construct an eecient method for spelling error detection and correction under the prerequisite of using a word list that is encoded and not possible to decode. Our method is probabilistic and the word list is stored as a Bloom lter. In particular we study how to handle compound words and innections in Swedish.

I propose a model for determining the hearer's attentional state which depends solely on a list of salient discourse entities (S-list). The ordering among the elements of the S-list covers also the function of the backward-looking center in the centering model. The ranking criteria for the S-list are based on the distinction between hearer-old and hearer-new discourse entities and incorporate p...