this study is a typological description of written formative feedback in an efl context in iran. twenty m.a. students of tefl participated in the study. they were required to summarize a scholarly article in each session on which the instructor would provide written corrective feedback (cf). written formative comments were extracted, coded, and categorized into various types, such as asking for...

Abstract This article deals with four unpublished Judeo-Spanish proverb collections from post-Holocaust Bosnia that were gathered there by different members of the Sephardic community: three men (Binjo Samokovlija, David Baruh, and Jakov Konforti) one woman (Flora Eškenazi). I specifically examine two working techniques these authors/collectors applied in order to safeguard disseminate this imp...

This paper seeks to make a pragmatic contribution to computer-assisted discourse analysis by showing how a syntactical description could be used to gain a deeper understanding of the texts. During the '80s, a large corpus (5,000 pages) of varied political discourses covering twenty five years (1934-1960) was collected and a double description of it was carried out. On the one hand, to deal with...

We present a principled approach to the problem of connecting a controlled document authoring system with a knowledge base. We start by describing closed-world authoring situations, in which the knowledge base is used for constraining the possible documents and orienting the user’s selections. Then we move to open-world authoring situations in which, additionally, choices made during authoring ...

The increasing demand for information classification based on content in the age of social media and e-commerce has led to need automated product using their descriptions. This study aims evaluate various techniques this task, with a focus descriptions written Portuguese. A pipeline is implemented preprocess data, including lowercasing, accent removal, unigram tokenization. bag words method the...

We present the results of an agreement task carried out in the framework of the KNOW Project and consisting in manually annotating an agreement sample totaling 50 sentences extracted from the SenSem corpus. Diambiguation was carried out for all nouns, proper nouns and adjectives in the sample, all of which were assigned EuroWordNet (EWN) synsets. As a result of the task, Spanish WN has been sho...