The use of L1 in language classroom has been traditionally repressed by applied linguists. However, in recent years, it is believed that switching to L1 can be considered a pedagogical instrument by teachers rather than a heterodox. Consequently, this two-phase study was an attempt to investigate the functions that are fulfilled by EFL teachers through their use of L1. In the first phase (i.e.,...

Recently, it has been shown that a number of hydroxypyridinones such as 1,2-dimethyl-3-hydroxypyridin-4-one (L1) are useful for the treatment of iron overload in place of desferrioxamine in thalassaemic patients. In this study, the intestinal absorption (I.A.) of L1 and one of its analogues namely 2-methy-3-hydroxypyridin-4-one (L2), which possesses a higher partition coefficient (Kpart) than L...

So far there is no unified treatment of interjections with respect to both their cognitive or emotional content and to their discourse functions. Furthermore, the various contributions interjections can make to automatic speech processing systems have not been exploited at all. An approach to the description of interjections on the basis of general constructions will be presented which accounts...

Reasoning about natural language most prominently requires combining semantically rich lexical resources with world knowledge, provided by ontologies. Therefore, we are building bindings from FrameNet – a lexical resource for English – to various ontologies depending on the application at hand. In this paper we show the first step toward such bindings: We translate FrameNet to the Web Ontology ...

The goal of this paper is to provide an annotation scheme for compounds based on generative lexicon theory (GL, Pustejovsky, 1995; Bassac and Bouillon, 2001). This scheme has been tested on a set of compounds automatically extracted from the Europarl corpus (Koehn, 2005) both in Italian and French. The motivation is twofold. On the one hand, it should help refine existing compound classificatio...

Recent work in end-to-end generation has reduced the need for knowledgeengineering, but is insufficiently sensitive to discourse structure. We present a method for inducing clause-combining rules for use in a traditional natural language generation architecture to address this gap. Our algorithm is able to learn all of the clause-combining rules present in the SPaRKy restaurant corpus from exem...

We present a concept-based approach to the problem of lexical selection which allows us to deal precisely with lexicalization gaps or mismatches in mapping from a source language into a target language. We adopt a linguistically motivated scheme that makes use of a decompositional representation which can be classified in terms of a KR ontology. A main contribution of our representation scheme ...

In this article, we give an overview of Natural Language Generation (nlg) from an applied system-building perspective. The article includes a discussion of when nlg techniques should be used; suggestions for carrying out requirements analyses; and a description of the basic nlg tasks of content determination, discourse planning, sentence aggregation, lexicalization, referring expression generat...