This paper presents a ranking-based approach used in a participating system for the TAC 2010 Information Extraction Task. We introduce a prioritization hierarchy consisting of four levels that are used to determine the most important sentences for extraction. The presence of named entities and the document date play major roles in our approach.

Nowadays, there has been an increasing interest in the integration of technology in pedagogical purposes. This study was an attempt to delve in to the impact of a mobile application (Cushy Grammar) on the learning of conditional sentences (type1, 2 and 3) among Iranian intermediate EFL learners in Rooyesh institute in Isfahan. To this end, a group of 75 intermediate EFL learners were non-random...

This investigation compares articulation rates in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish and investigates differences in degrees of syllable deletion (reduction) between these three languages. For the investigation two sets of data are used: one consisting of recorded speech from radio news and another consisting of read sentences. The results from the comparative investigation show that in both data se...

one of the most important reasons for the success of literary figure is his sufficient use of story elements such as characterization, plot, point of view, symbols. this study critically analyses the different literary elements in naguib mahfouz’s famous collection of short stories, “the infamous house” consisting of 18 stories.  at first, we offer a definition of the short story as a genre and...

Clemens Boucsein,* Martin Nawrot,* Stefan Rotter, Ad Aertsen, and Detlef Heck Neurobiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biology III and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg; Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany; and University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Department of Anatomy and Neurobio...

This paper describes the process of integrating into a rule-based parser a set of approximately 1,000 nominal predicates forming support verb constructions (SVC) with the verb dar ‘give’ in Brazilian Portuguese. The system was evaluated on a sample of 580 sentences containing verb-noun combinations candidates to SVC, manually and independently annotated. Best results yield 85% precision, 79% re...

As speech recognition moves toward more unconstrained domains such as conversational speech, we encounter a need to be able to segment (or resegment) waveforms and recognizer output into linguistically meaningful units, such a sentences. Toward this end, we present a simple automatic segmenter of transcripts based on N-gram language modeling. We also study the relevance of several word-level fe...