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...

This study purported to comparatively investigate the influence of collaborative writing on the quality of individual writing of four female Iranian and four female Malaysian students. The first semester students at a private university in Malaysia, who were comparable in terms of age, gender, study discipline, and language proficiency, were divided into two Iranian and two Malaysian dyads. The...

Text coherence evaluation becomes a vital and lovely task in Natural Language Processing subfields, such as text summarization, question answering, text generation and machine translation. Existing methods like entity-based and graph-based models are engaging with nouns and noun phrases change role in sequential sentences within short part of a text. They even have limitations in global coheren...

The semantic annotation of texts with senses from a computational lexicon is a complex and often subjective task. As a matter of fact, the fine granularity of the WordNet sense inventory [Fellbaum, Christiane (ed.). 1998. WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database MIT Press], a de facto standard within the research community, is one of the main causes of a low inter-tagger agreement ranging betwee...

The grammatical function subject can be identified reliably in Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), but the same is not true of other clause-level nominal constituents in the language. The tests proposed in previous studies for identifying an object grammatical function turn out to be unreliable and inconsistent when the full range of data is considered. This thesis attempts to clarify the problem by...

the most important and practical phase of analyzing the linguistic errors of second language learners is to find the solutions to decrease these errors. to that end, the present study examined translation strategy to decrease the number of grammatical and lexical errors of chinese language learners learning persian. twelve chinese language learners were asked to write a text in two stages. firs...

Many projects are conducted to develop multilingual lexical databases. Some of these projects use an interlingual approach (KBMT-89, EDR, ...), where others choose a bilingual approach (Multilex, ...). This paper presents an interlingual approach based on acceptions (word-senses) aiming at the development of a multilingual lexical database management system: NADIA. With this approach, the inter...

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the effects using inquiry-based writing instruction on students’ academic skills. A pretest-posttest two groups quasi-experimental design employed. Data were obtained through test, focus group discussion, and reflective journal from 62 first-year pharmacy students who selected comprehensive sampling. While experimental received instruction, cont...

Abstract Grammatical and lexical cohesion are necessary conditions to guarantee a text’s coherence (Halliday Hasan 1976). is classified into four types of relation: reference, conjunction, substitution, ellipsis. This study aims investigate the use cohesive device reference in written discourse produced by users/learners French as foreign language, explore kind references they prefer highlight ...

This paper describes some of the results of the project The Reusability of Grammatical Resources. The aim of the project is to extend current grammar formalisms with notational devices and constraint solvers in order to aid the development of reusable grammars. The project took the Advanced Linguistic Engineering Platform (ALEP) as its starting point. ALEP allows two levels of extension: additi...