background and purpose: this study intends to identify the numbers and some characteristics of the teachers of various english courses offered at medical universities affiliated to the ministry of health during the second semester of the academic year 2005-6. methods: the methods used in this research were “gathering existing data”, and “descriptive study”. the research was conducted by sending...

This paper reviews software design guidelines from the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and empirical results from the field of vocabulary acquisition. We categorize the empirical evidence in terms of three key aspects of instructional software for vocabulary teaching: task type, media and scheduling. We describe how design of an online adaptive vocabulary teaching system inc...

In this paper, we describe a word alignment algorithm for English-Hindi parallel data. The system was developed to participate in the shared task on word alignment for languages with scarce resources at the ACL 2005 workshop, on “Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond”. Our word alignment algorithm is based on a hybrid method which performs local word grou...

This data article presents a corpus (i.e. a selection of a big number of words in an electronic form) and a concordancer (i.e. a tool to show the word in its context of use) of academic journal articles. As the title suggests, the data were collected from research articles published in academic journals. The corpus contains 5,686,428 words selected from 895 journal articles published by Elsevie...

This article presents an unsupervised algorithm for word decomposition called UNGRADE (UNsupervised GRAph DEcomposition) to segment any word list of any language. UNGRADE assumes that each word follows the structure prefixes, a stem and suffixes without giving a limit on the number of prefixes and suffixes. The UNGRADE’s algorithm works in three steps and is language independent. Firstly, a pse...

We evaluated the readability of Internet-sourced patient education materials (PEMs) related to "labour analgesia." In addition to assessing the readability of websites, we aimed to compare commercial, personal, and academic websites.We used the most popular search engine (http://www.google.com) in our study. The first 100 websites in English that resulted from a search for the key words "labour...

In modern information retrieval systems, effective indexing can be achieved by removal of stop words. Till now many stop word lists have been developed for English language. However, no standard stop word list has been constructed for Chinese language yet. With the fast development of information retrieval in Chinese language, exploring the evaluation of Chinese stop word lists becomes critical...

Th geme Reso grate ment Dori anon versi Ad Rum P.O. r.rum tual and lexical information. In two experiments, we show that phonological information also contributes to short-term sentence recall. Modality of sentence presentation was varied, and a word list was presented before or after sentence presentation. It was assumed that phonological information contributes to the recall of auditorily pre...

Word list with short explaination in the areas of neuroinformatics and statistics.