Reading academic and specialised texts in a foreign language is difficult process, support for making materials more linguistically accessible scarce. Approaches used English as Foreign Language (EFL) teaching could inform responses to this, EFL are routinely simplified make them comprehensible. However, there lack of research on the most method – intuitive text simplification. In this study, 2...

Research on the special relationship between the United States and Israel hasusually been focused on strategic aspects, whilst fewer scholars have focusedon non-material dimensions of the relationship. In addition, the existingresearch is mostly confined to the political and decision-making realms, withvery few excursions into the academic arena. The current article aims...

A postal survey of recently appointed consultant paediatricians was undertaken to determine whether they perceived their training had adequately equipped them for their current job. The response rate was 69% (207/299). After excluding replies from consultants trained outside the UK the analysis was carried out on 167 replies. Trainees held a mean 5.2 posts during general and higher professional...

This paper describes the development of a prototype document retrieval system based on frequency calculations and corpora comparison techniques. The prototype, WILDER, generated simple frequency information based on which calculations of document relevance could be made. The prototype was built to allow the University of Surrey to debut in the U.S. Text Retrieval Competition (TREC). User querie...