LEXICAL SIMILARITY LEVEL BETWEEN ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE

Factored Translation between Brazilian Portuguese and English

Factored translation is an extension of the state-of-theart phrase-based statistical machine translation (PB-SMT). The main difference in factored translation approach is that a word is not only a token (its surface form) but a vector composed of different information such as lemma, part-of-speech or morphologic/syntactic tags. In this paper we present some experiments carried out to train and ...

Applying a Lexical Similarity Measure to Compare Portuguese Term Collections

The number of ontologies publicly available and accessible through the web has increased in the last years, so that the task of finding similar terms among these structures becomes mandatory. We depict the application and the evaluation of a new similarity measure for comparing Portuguese Ontological Structures (OSs) called Lexical Similarity (LS). This paper describes contributions to the stud...

the relationship between topic familiarity and guessing lexical meaning and retention among iranian efl learners

the skill of reading in english as a foreign language is an important and challenging one which is affected both by linguistic and extra linguistic factors. since vocabularies are part and parcel of every reading comprehension text, knowing enough vocabulary always facilitates this process. however, guessing strategy as one of the most important strategies has consistently ignored by language l...

Lexical Cohesion in English and Persian Abstracts

This study compares and contrasts lexical cohesion in English and Persian abstracts of Iranian medical students’ theses to appreciate textualization processes in the two languages. For this purpose, one hundred English and Persian abstracts were selected randomly and analyzed based on Seddigh and Yarmohamadi’s (1996) lexical cohesion framework, a version of Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) and Halli...

Sense - related items and lexical patterning in English and Portuguese scientific abstracts