Knowing the behavior of terms in written texts can help us tailor fit models, algorithms and resources to improve access to digital libraries and help us answer information needs in longer spanning archives. In this paper we investigate the behavior of English written text in blogs in comparison to traditional texts from the New York Times, The Times Archive, and the British National Corpus. We...

This study focuses on a central question: “What strategies do students’ use and what difficulties do they feel when organising, in note form, written argumentative texts?” while simultaneously exploring constructivism and on-line collaborative pair work (dyads). The objective is to observe the practices and difficulties felt by students at the University of Aveiro when working on written argume...

background: the comprehension processes are often inferred or explored indirectly through the assessment of the performance of the students on certain tasks. comprehension is typically measured by the techniques in which the test-taker reads a short text and then selects the correct answers in multiple choice questions, true/false and yes/no tasks or matching activities. purpose: a new approach...

This study analyzes lexical proficiency in oral and written texts produced by second language (L2) learners of English. The purpose of the study is to examine relationships between analytic scores of depth of lexical knowledge, breadth of lexical knowledge, and access to core lexical items and holistic scores of lexical proficiency. A corpus of 240 spoken texts and 240 written texts produced by...

the term “sānād” i-e (persian historical document) is an important key word in history. although there are many researches about purport, applicable field of “sanad” but historical linguistic of this term is little-known. in regard to that this word have not a long use by mean “written” and “document” in  iranian historical texts, therefore  mind question of this article is: when this term in r...

A Chinese handwritten text dataset, HIT-MW, is presented to facilitate the offline Chinese handwritten text recognition. Texts for handcopying are sampled from China Daily corpus with a stratified random manner. To collect naturally written handwriting, forms are distributed by postal mail or middleman instead of face to face. The current version of HIT-MW includes 853 forms and 186,444 charact...

authentic text is considered to be an important requirement of communicative approach and communicative foreign language teaching textbooks. the present research investigates the authenticity of three pfl textbook by answering the following question: “to what extent are the texts in pfl textbooks considered to be authentic?” accordingly the quantity and quality of cohesion discourse-marker dist...

This paper deals with the entity extraction task (named entity recognition) of a text mining process that aims at unveiling non-trivial semantic structures, such as relationships and interaction between entities or communities. In this paper we present a simple and efficient named entity extraction algorithm. The method, named PAMPO (PAttern Matching and POs tagging based algorithm for NER), re...

The paper discusses the practical applicability of a Code-Mixing Index as a measurement of the level of complexity and mixing in texts written in several different languages, and contrasts it to other ways of measuring the complexity of texts. In particular, we describe the application of the proposed Index to corpora of codemixed Indian social media texts and compare their complexity to social...