In this paper we describe the SemKer system participating to the fifth Recognizing of Textual Entailment (RTE5) challenge. The major novelty with respect to the systems with which we participated to the previous challenges is the use of semantic knowledge based on Wikipedia. More specifically, we used it to enrich the similarity measure between pairs of text and hypothesis (i.e. the tree kernel...

The present study attempted the relative effect of explicit teaching of textual metadiscourse markers on ESAP reading comprehension performance of Iranian university students through an awareness raising experiment. A sixty-item multiple choice ESAP reading comprehension test of accounting was developed and validated to act as the pre-test and post-test. The test included items for assessing sp...

The present corpus-driven study addresses the current situation of translation criticisms published in print or online in the Iranian media. A sample of 17 criticisms (roughly 68,000 words altogether) from a variety of valid media outlets was compiled. Having been categorized into those with, and those without an ex- plicit theoretical framework, the criticisms were examined on two levels...