Refining Outlining Skills: Part I: The Topic or Sentence Method

Refining the experimental analysis of academic skills deficits: Part I. An investigation of variables that affect generalized oral reading performance.

Experimental analyses for improving reading fluency deficits have rarely targeted generalized increases in academic responding. As a consequence, the variables that may help students to generalize newly learned forms of academic responding like reading are not well understood. Furthermore, experimental analyses of reading fluency interventions have not systematically examined difficulty level a...

Location Of The Topic Sentence, Level Of Language Proficiency, and Reading Comprehension

Sentence Clustering using PageRank Topic Model

The clusters of review sentences on the viewpoints from the products’ evaluation can be applied to various use. The topic models, for example Unigram Mixture (UM), can be used for this task. However, there are two problems. One problem is that topic models depend on the randomly-initialized parameters and computation results are not consistent. The other is that the number of topics has to be s...

Sentence Retrieval with LSI and Topic Identification

This paper presents two sentence retrieval methods. We adopt the task definition done in the TREC Novelty Track: sentence retrieval consists in the extraction of the relevant sentences for a query from a set of relevant documents for that query. We have compared the performance of the Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) retrieval model against the performance of a topic identification method, also b...

Rethinking the Languages for Specific Purposes Syllabus in the 21st Century: Topic-Centered or Skills-Centered

21st century has transformed the labor market landscape in a way of posing new and different demands on university graduates as well as university lecturers, which means that the knowledge and academic skills students acquire in the course of their studies should be applicable and transferable from the higher education context to their future professional careers. Given the context of the Langu...