NETSPEAK is a Web service which helps writers in finding alternative expressions for what they want to say.1 It provides a large index of writing samples in the form of ngrams, n ≤ 5, along with an efficient means to retrieve them by the use of wildcard queries. When in doubt about a phrasing, a user can get additional evidence by retrieving samples that match a given context. The figure below ...

This short paper relates the main features of LELIE, phase 1, which detects errors made by technical writers when producing procedures or requirements. This results from ergonomic observations of technical writers in various companies.

This study investigated metadiscourse and its subcategories in English research articles (RAs) written by nonnative (Iranian) and native English writers from the two disciplines of applied linguistics and civil engineering. The study aimed at seeing whether language and discipline influenced the frequency of occurrence of metadiscourse elements in research articles. To this end, a sample of 120...