How Can Texts in Classical Chinese Literature Help Create an Educational Space?

PCFG Parsing for Restricted Classical Chinese Texts

The Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar (PCFG) model is widely used for parsing natural languages, including Modern Chinese. But for Classical Chinese, the computer processing is just commencing. Our previous study on the part-of-speech (POS) tagging of Classical Chinese is a pioneering work in this area. Now in this paper, we move on to the PCFG parsing of Classical Chinese texts. We continue t...

How Food Industries Can Help in Preventing Childhood Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome?

How acupuncture can help

People with vertigo have the illusion that the environment is moving about them, or that they are moving with respect to the environment.(DTB 2009) The condition usually originates in the peripheral nervous system, for example, due to a disorder of the inner ear such as Ménière's disease, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), or labyrinthitis and vestibular neuritis. It can also be due t...

Space characters in Chinese semi-structured texts

Space characters can have an important role in disambiguating text. However, few, if any, Chinese information extraction systems make full use of space characters. However, it seems that treatment of space characters is necessary, especially in cases of extracting information from semi-structured documents. This investigation aims to address the importance of space characters in Chinese informa...

Towards an Inquiry-Based Language Learning: Can a Wiki Help?

Wiki use may help EFL instructors to create an effective learning environment for inquiry-based language teaching and learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of wikis on the EFL learners’ IBL process. Forty-nine EFL students participated in the study while they conducted research projects in English. The Non-wiki group (n = 25) received traditional inquiry instr...