Vocabulary is an essential part of every language not only foreign language. The way teachers teach new vocabulary is vocabulary presentation mode, which influence students’ vocabulary retention greatly. According to the cognitive psychology, the way to understand new information varies with the presentation modes of information, which means only with the appropriate presentation modes, the voc...

The present study examines the effects of 3 kinds of glosses—first-language (L1) Chinese glosses plus second-language (L2) English example sentences, L1 in-text glosses, and L1 marginal glosses—in comparison with a no-gloss condition in reading an English passage, to explore whether providing glosses can facilitate reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. A total of 135 undergraduate b...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of five entity extraction methods for the task of identifying entities from scientific publications, including two vocabulary-based methods (a keywordbased and a Wikipedia-based) and three model-based methods (conditional random fields (CRF), CRF with keyword-based dictionary, and CRF with Wikipedia-based dictionary). These methods are ...

One of the most prominent problems in computer processing of the Chinese language is identification of the words in a sentence. Since there are no blanks to mark word boundaries, identifying words is difficult because of segmentation ambiguities and occurrences of out-of-vocabulary words (i.e., unknown words). In this paper, a corpus-based learning method is proposed which derives sets of synta...

As tantalizing as the idea that background music beneficially affects foreign vocabulary learning may seem, there is-partly due to a lack of theory-driven research-no consistent evidence to support this notion. We investigated inter-individual differences in the effects of background music on foreign vocabulary learning. Based on Eysenck's theory of personality we predicted that individuals wit...

This paper describes the Chinese Word Segmenter for the fourth International Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff. Base on Conditional Random Field (CRF) model, a basic segmenter is designed as a problem of character-based tagging. To further improve the performance of our segmenter, we employ a word-based approach to increase the in-vocabulary (IV) word recall and a post-processing to increase ...