Construction of 100 million words balanced corpus of contemporary written Japanese is underway at the National Institute for Japanese Language. The unique property of the corpus consists in that the majority of its sample texts are selected randomly from well-defined statistical populations covering wide range of written texts.

The Extent of Using the Basic Vocabulary in the First Grade Quran Textbook S. B. Alavi Moghaddam, Ph.D. Textbooks need to be written in such a way that their readers can understand the written texts. One way of ensuring this objective in first grade textbooks would be the use of basic vocabulary, as determined by Ne'matzadeh, et.al. (1384). Considering the importance of the Quran text...

We analyze the rank-frequency distributions of words in selected English and Polish texts. We compare scaling properties of these distributions in both languages. We also study a few small corpora of Polish literary texts and find that for a corpus consisting of texts written by different authors the basic scaling regime is broken more strongly than in the case of comparable corpus consisting o...

this study examined the effects of aural and written prompts under two planning conditions (i.e. pre-task planning and no planning) on complexity, accuracy, and fluency of test takers' writing production. forty learners in an english institute, who had already been classified as intermediate according to the oxford placement test, were assigned to two planning conditions (i.e. no planning and p...

We propose a new approach to improving named entity recognition (NER) in broadcast news speech data. The approach proceeds in two key steps: (1) we detect block alignments between highly similar blocks of the speech data and corresponding written news data that are easily obtainable from the Web, (2) we employ term expansion techniques commonly used in information retrieval to recover named ent...

This paper describes a proposal for Portuguese possessive pronominal anaphor (PPA) resolution, a problem little considered so far. Particularly, we address the problem of Portuguese 3rd person intrasentential PPAs seu/sua/seus/suas (his/her/their/its, for human and non-human subjects in English), which constitute 30% of pronominal occurrences in our corpus (Brazilian laws about environment prot...

?ima?ki is one of the important toponyms in old elamite period. until now, there has been no agreement among archaeologists on the location of this toponym. this article wants to show why the kerman province cannot be the good candidate for this toponym. for this purpose, the authors used the archaeological and written documents. an important integrative analysis of archaeological survey data w...

This paper shows a method of teaching written language to deaf people using sign language as the language of instruction. Written texts in the target language are combined with sign language videos which provide the users with various modes of translation (words/phrases/sentences). As examples, two EU projects for English for the Deaf are presented which feature English texts and translations i...

The vast amount of data and increase of computational capacity have allowed the analysis of texts from several perspectives, including the representation of texts as complex networks. Nodes of the network represent the words, and edges represent some relationship, usually word co-occurrence. Even though networked representations have been applied to study some tasks, such approaches are not usu...