Texts are routinely simplified to make them more comprehensible for second language learners. However, the effects of simplification upon the linguistic features of texts remain largely unexplored. Here we examine the effects of one type of text simplification: intuitive text simplification. We use the computational tool, Coh-Metrix, to examine linguistic differences between proficiency levels ...

Short texts usually encounter data sparsity and ambiguity problems in representations for their lack of context. In this paper, we propose a novel method to model short texts based on semantic clustering and convolutional neural network. Particularly, we first discover semantic cliques in embedding spaces by a fast clustering algorithm. Then, multi-scale semantic units are detected under the su...

Paraphrase Identification and Semantic Similarity are two different yet well related tasks in NLP. There are many studies on these two tasks extensively on structured texts in the past. However, with the strong rise of social media data, studying these tasks on unstructured texts, particularly, social texts in Twitter is very interesting as it could be more complicated problems to deal with. We...

     This study focuses on the effect of user-friendly, impersonal, and hybrid texts on the reading comprehension ability of Iranian foreign language learners. Forty-five students of AlzahraUniversity were selected on the basis of their performance in a recent TOEFL. They were given three different texts (each group of 15 students was given one type) describing the same area of English usage, w...

Medical discourse has recently attracted much scholarly attention. However, few studies have concentrated on both the overall rhetorical structure of the research article (RA) and the specific lexicogrammatical features of the texts, particularly English-Persian contrastive studies on medical RAs. Relying on Nwogu’s (1997) framework, the present study aimed at providing a macroanalysis of the I...

While constitutions regulate political authority within a state, there is much we do not know about the interaction between political conditions and constitutional texts. Much of the literature relies upon hand-coded databases of constitutional texts. However, this approach raises both methodological and theoretical concerns. Advances in natural language processing, particularly latent text ana...

Lexicographical and terminological work is increasingly dependent on the analysis of texts, particularly texts organised in a corpus and being made available through computer systems. We argue that the developments in corpus linguistics, artificial intelligence, connection sciences, and lexicography and terminology, can be conjoined together to analyse the various facets of a text. In particula...

SMK Islam Kunjang is one of vocational high schools in district. a relatively developing school any things; such as the system administration, relation, or teaching methodology technique, because it runs for about 14 years old. located suburbs. Absolutely, most students were less spirit to study more over English. The teacher has been trying determine technique especially writing. students’ wri...