A study of the nature of hand and finger motions in typing process was made, based on the data on time intervals between key strokes. Many of the results obtained confirm those formerly obtained by Dvorak and other researchers. In addition, it was [bund that each key sequence is affected by its context, thus proving that the mental aspects of typing directly affects its productivity, and that t...

We present a gold standard annotation of syntactic dependencies in the English Web Treebank corpus using the Stanford Dependencies standard. This resource addresses the lack of a gold standard dependency treebank for English, as well as the limited availability of gold standard syntactic annotations for informal genres of English text. We also present experiments on the use of this resource, bo...

This study investigated whether Iranian EFL learners are aware of different varieties of English spoken throughout the world and whether they have tendency towards a particular variety of English. Likewise, it explored the attitudes of Iranian EFL learners towards the native and non-native varieties of English. Moreover, it made an attempt to investigate whether such attitudes are gender-orient...