This paper discusses a computational approach to readability that is expected to lead eventually towards a new and configurable metric for text readability. Our research involves the elaboration, implementation and evaluation of an 8-part framework that requires consideration of both textual and cognitive factors such as language, vocabulary, background knowledge, motivation and cognitive load....

A Knowledge-Based Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation by distributional selection and semantic features. Word sense disambiguation improves many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Machine Translation, or Lexical Simplification. Roughly speaking, the aim is to choose for each word in a text its best sense. One of the most popul...

Economic issues related to the information processing techniques are very important. The development of such technologies is a major asset for developing countries like Cambodia and Laos, and emerging ones like Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand. The MotAMot project aims to computerize an under-resourced language: Khmer, spoken mainly in Cambodia. The main goal of the project is the development of ...

this article studies the generative grammar approach and some other theories driven from it to lexicon and lexical entries. generative grammar is known as a syntax-based theory, so some aspects of language which have been studied in this theory may have been ignored in other theories. this article shows that more attention has been given to lexicon and lexical entries since 50s. we may claim th...

Multi-word lexical units are a typical feature of specialized dictionaries, in particular monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. The paper studies the concept of the multi-word lexical unit and considers the similarities and differences of their selection and presentation in monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. The work analyses such issues as the classification of multi-w...

Automatic Text Complexity Evaluation (ATE) is a research field that aims at creating new methodologies to make autonomous the process of text complexity evaluation, study text-linguistic features (e.g., lexical, syntactical, morphological) measure grade comprehensibility text. ATE can affect positively several different contexts such as Finance, Health, and Education. Moreover, it support on Si...

This study compares lexical retrieval amongst monolinguals and intermediate bilinguals and advanced bilinguals. It also investigates the possible effects of their language learning strategies on their respective lexical retrieval advantage. The study used a mixed methods design and the groups consisted of 20 Persian near-monolinguals, 20 Persian-English intermediate level bilinguals, and 20 Per...