the necessity and importance of teaching pragmatics has come to light by many researchers (e.g. rose & kasper, 2001). due to the consensus over the need to teach pragmatic competence, the main issue now centers on the question of how we should teach this competence in the most effective way. consistent with this line of research, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of d...

We evaluate inductive logic programming (ILP) methods for predicting fault density in C++ classes. In this problem, each training example is a C++ class deenition, represented as a calling tree, and labeled as \pos-itive" ii faults (i.e., errors) were discovered in its implementation. We compare two ILP systems, FOIL and FLIPPER, and explore the reasons for their diiering performance, using bot...