The current research was an effort to study the interaction of gender with text enhancement and meta-cognitive grammar instruction on learning and recall of English grammar. To this end, two groups of students consisting of 51 learners from both genders were formed. The participants were 51 male and 51 female learners. The 51 participants of each gender were further divided into two groups. The...

The current research was an effort to study the interaction of gender with text enhancement and meta-cognitive grammar instruction on learning and recall of English grammar. To this end, two groups of students consisting of 51 learners from both genders were formed. The participants were 51 male and 51 female learners. The 51 participants of each gender were further divided into two groups. The...

the present study investigated comparatively the impact of two types of input enhancement (i.e. textual vs. compound enhancement) on developing grammar ability in iranian efl setting. sixty-five female secondary high school students were selected as a homogenous sample out of about a 100-member population based on nelson language proficiency test. then, their grammar ability was measured based ...

In this paper we address the problem of text extraction, enhancement and recognition in digital video. Compared with optical character recognition (OCR) from document images, text extraction and recognition in digital video presents several new challenges. First, the text in video is often embedded in complex backgrounds, making text extraction and separation diicult. Second, image data contain...

This paper describes ongoing research into the application of pattern recognition to incised documents, for which grooves and other structural surface markings are signi2cant, rather than surface coloration. We deduce incised stroke information by imaging the document under a carefully selected set of lighting conditions that cause shadows to be cast, and observing the position and motion of sh...

The vast majority of copied documents generally consist of text, and the copy quality mostly depends on the text’s reproduction quality. A new technique to enhance dark text on light background of scanned mixed mode documents (containing text, graphics and photo) is presented to improve copy quality. This technique incorporates various image processing filters that enhance dark text without dis...

There are many situations where non-real-time speech enhancement is required. For such applications, employing any available a priori knowledge can lead to more eeective enhancement solutions. In this study, a novel text-directed speech enhancement algorithm is developed for usage in non-real-time applications. In our approach, the text of the intended dialogue is used to partition noisy speech...

We present sentence enhancement as a novel technique for text-to-text generation in abstractive summarization. Compared to extraction or previous approaches to sentence fusion, sentence enhancement increases the range of possible summary sentences by allowing the combination of dependency subtrees from any sentence from the source text. Our experiments indicate that our approach yields summary ...