The purpose of this article is to validate, through two empirical studies, a new method for automatic evaluation of written texts, called Inbuilt Rubric, based on the Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) technique, which constitutes an innovative and distinct turn with respect to LSA application so far. In the first empirical study, evidence of the validity of the method to identify and evaluate the ...

The Naproche project (Natural language Proof Checking) was initiated by Bernhard Schröder and Peter Koepke at the University of Bonn to focus on an interdisciplinary study of the semi-formal language of mathematics. A central goal of Naproche is to develop a controlled natural language (CNL) for mathematical texts and adapted proof checking software which checks texts written in the CNL for syn...

The growing use of information technologies such as mobile devices has had a major social and technological impact such as the growing use of Short Message Services (SMS), a communication system broadly used by cellular phone users. In 2011, it was estimated over 5.6 billion of mobile phones sending between 30 and 40 SMS at month. Hence the great importance of analyzing representation and norma...

Google Translate provides a multilingual machinetranslation service by automatically translating one written language to another. Google translate is allegedly limited in its accuracy in translation, however. This study investigated the accuracy of Google Chinese-to-English translation from the perspectives of formality and cohesion with two comparisons: Google translation with human expert tra...

The article is devoted to the problem of identification and systematization stylistic means journalistic film texts according their linguosemiotic status. With help a number general scientific (observation, comparison, generalization, quantitative calculations) special (descriptive, functional) methods, Ukrainian-language films A. Galimov, Romanidi, H. Kovalenko were investigated. author explai...

This article presents the results of a pilot study examining the use of first-person pronouns, certain adjectives and grading adverbs in a corpus of 51 French psychology student papers written in English as a second language. These results were compared to a corpus of published psychology articles and to a sub-corpus of psychology student texts from the British Academic Written English corpus (...

This paper investigates stylistic changes in a set of Portuguese historical texts ranging from the 17 to the early 20 century and presents a supervised method to classify them per century. Four stylistic features – average sentence length (ASL), average word length (AWL), lexical density (LD), and lexical richness (LR) – were automatically extracted for each sub-corpus. The initial analysis of ...