Students' writing can provide better insight into their thinking than can multiple-choice questions. However, resource constraints often prevent faculty from using writing assessments in large undergraduate science courses. We investigated the use of computer software to analyze student writing and to uncover student ideas about chemistry in an introductory biology course. Students were asked t...

Two classes of models have been proposed to account for eye movement control during reading. Proponents of the 1st class of model claim that the decision of when to move the eyes (reflected in fixation duration) is primarily influenced by the status of on-line language processing such as lexical access. Supporters of the 2nd class of model, however, maintain that (a) lower level oculomotor fact...

  This paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. The aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in English and published in England and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in Persian from Iranian publications. For this purpose, the frequency...

The article presents the experiments carried out as part of the participation in Recognizing Inference in TExt (RITE-2) @NTCIR10 for Japanese. RITE-2 has four subtasks Binary-class (BC) subtask for Japanese and Chinese, Multi-class (MC) subtask for Japanese and Chinese, Entrance Exam for Japanese and RITE4QA for Chinese. We have submitted three runs in BC subtask for Japanese (JA) (one run), Ch...

Schema matching is the problem of finding relationships among concepts across data sources that are heterogeneous in format and in structure. Starting from the ‘‘hidden meaning’’ associated with schema labels (i.e. class/attribute names), it is possible to discover lexical relationships among the elements of different schemata. In this work, we propose an automatic method aimed at discovering p...

This paper presents the Lexicon-Grammar classification of Italian idioms that has been constructed on formal principles and, as such, can be exploited in information extraction. Among MWEs, idioms are those fixed constructions which are hard to automatically detect, given their syntactic flexibility and lexical variation. The syntactic properties of idioms have been formally represented and cod...

Word frequency and lexical class distinction between function and content words have been shown to significantly influence word production. In this paper, we use real-time magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the effect of word frequency and lexical class on articulatory characteristics (the articulator speed) as well as acoustic characteristics (F0 and short-term energy) in word productio...

Spoken audio is an important source of information available to knowledge extraction and management systems. Organization of spoken messages by priority and content can facilitate knowledge capture and decision making based on profiles of recipients as these can be determined by physical and social conditions. This paper revisits the above task and addresses a related data sparseness problem. W...

Overview This paper proposes to compute the meanings associated to sentences with generic NPs corresponding to the most of generalized quantifier. We call these generics specimens and they resemble stereotypes or prototypes in lexical semantics. The meanings are viewed as logical formulae that can be thereafter interpreted in your favorite models. We rather depart from the dominant Fregean sing...