This paper proposes a graph-based readability assessment method using word coupling. Compared to the state-of-theart methods such as the readability formulae, the word-based and feature-based methods, our method develops a coupled bag-of-words model which combines the merits of word frequencies and text features. Unlike the general bag-of-words model which assumes words are independent, our mod...

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Content Analysis of the High School Textbooks in Iran from Information Literacy Perspective E. Ebraahimi Dorcheh M. Cheshmeh Sohraabi, Ph.D. M. R. Neyestaani, Ph.D. To determine the extent to which information literacy is utilized within the 10th grade textbooks across different disciplines, a sample of 19 textbooks from among 96 high school textbooks was selected. The instr...

Whether closed-class words use the same lexical access route(s) as open-class words has been intensely debated recently. Differences in frequency sensitivity have been suggested as one manifestation of separable access routes. However, all the lexical decision studies have been limited by floor effects at the higher frequency ranges which could mask theoretically important differences in the be...

We present and discuss experiments in statistical parsing of French, where terminal forms used during training and parsing are replaced by more general symbols, particularly clusters of words obtained through unsupervised linear clustering. We build on the work of Candito and Crabbé (2009) who proposed to use clusters built over slightly coarsened French inflected forms. We investigate the alte...

Four experiments were designed to investigate whether the frequency of words used to create pseudowords plays an important role in lexical decision. Computational models of the lexical decision task (e.g., the dual route cascaded model and the multiple read-out model) predict that latencies to low-frequency pseudowords should be faster than latencies to high-frequency pseudowords. Consistent wi...

General academic words are those which typically learned through exposure to school texts and occur across disciplines. We examined vocabulary assessment data from a group of English-speaking middle students (N = 1,747). tested how word frequency, complexity, proximity, polysemy, diversity related students’ knowledge target ability levels. Our results affirm the strong relation between reading ...

Iliria International Review – 2013/1 © Felix–Verlag, Holzkirchen, Germany and Iliria College, Pristina, Kosovo Abstract Recently several studies have shown that word frequency estimation based on subtitle files explains better the variance in word recognition performance than traditional words frequency estimates did. The present study aims to show this frequency estimate in Albanian from more ...

Previous research has identified robust effects on segmental production of lexical factors like word frequency, predictability or neighborhood density. One question that remains unanswered is whether such lexical effects hold also at the suprasegmental level. This study investigates whether lexical factors such as usage frequency affect tone production in Cantonese. We recorded Cantonese monosy...

We present a randomized algorithm for estimating the pth moment Fp of the frequency vector of a data stream in the general update (turnstile) model to within a multiplicative factor of 1±ǫ, for p > 2, with high constant confidence. For 0 < ǫ ≤ 1, the algorithm uses space O(nǫ+ nǫ log(n)) words. This improves over the current bound of O(nǫ log(n)) words by Andoni et. al. in [2]. Our space upper ...