This study was an attempt to explore the beliefs of Iranian EFL teachers about the role of grammar in English language teaching in both state schools and private language institutes. Data were collected through a questionnaire developed by Burgess and Etherington (2002), which consisted of 11 main subscales and was divided into two sections. The first section dealt with approaches to grammar te...

In this paper we introduce a novel framework to compute jointly syntactic parses and semantic representations of a written sentence. To achieve this goal, we couple a syntactico-semantic grammar and a knowledge base. The knowledge base is implemented in Description Logics, in a polynomial variant. The grammar is a Range Concatenation Grammar, which combines expressive power and polynomial parsi...

The paper presents a computationally tractable application of Bulgarian pronouns representation using Universal Networking Language (UNL) formalism. It analyses grammar features of pronouns and offers a model of their formal representation based on incorporation of grammar, semantic and lexical knowledge by using standard UNL knowledge representation mechanisms. The entire application presents ...

A production rule of a knowledge base ia called Ed sential if it is present in any prime knowledge ba8e which is logically equivalent to the given one. The identification of essential rules indicates the degree of fkeedom we have in constructing logically equivalent transfomaationa of the base, by specifying the set of rules which must remain in place, and implicitly showing which rulea could b...