the present study investigated comparatively the impact of two types of input enhancement (i.e. textual vs. compound enhancement) on developing grammar ability in iranian efl setting. sixty-five female secondary high school students were selected as a homogenous sample out of about a 100-member population based on nelson language proficiency test. then, their grammar ability was measured based ...

This paper presents the methodology and semantics of a general procedure for the joint analysis of textual data in terms of discourse structure and information structure, which makes use of Questions under Discussion (QUDs). We define a number of pragmatic principles that govern the reconstruction of implicit QUDs.

Modeling is an important part of the software development process because it allows for a better understanding of the domain as well as an understanding of the software structure and function. Among general-purpose modeling languages dominate the graphical ones such as UML; textual modeling languages are not as popular though they have a big potential. In this paper we define the important feat...

W e are exploring what it means to 'play' textual literature. We don't mean, by this, playing games that incorporate textual material within their structure but rather textual and literary structures for which play is a primary means of interaction. We are conducting our exploration both as creators and scholars of digital media. This paper discusses a number of related issues — including the n...

In today’s knowledge-intensive engineering environment, information management is an important and essential activity. However, existing researches of Engineering Information Management (EIM) mainly focused on numerical data such as computer models and process data. Textual data, especially the case of free texts, which constitute a significant part of engineering information, have been somewha...

A programming language which supports the adequate speciication of both { the parallel and sequential { aspects of a program establishes the optimal basis for a parallel programming methodology. Parallel languages which are entirely based on textual representations are not the best choice for describing parallelism. The main drawbacks stem from the fact that the sequential order of textual repr...

The present study examined the effect of multimedia glosses on foreign language listening comprehension. To this end, 94 male students studying at Rasa English Institute in Tehran were selected for the treatment. The participants consisted of three groups, and each group was randomly assigned to one of the following treatment conditions: textual, pictorial, and textual-pictorial glossing....

Data pre-processing is an important topic in Text Classification (TC). It aims to convert the original textual data in a data-mining-ready structure, where the most significant text-features that serve to differentiate between textcategories are identified. Broadly speaking, textual data pre-processing techniques can be divided into three groups: (i) linguistic, (ii) statistical, and (iii) hybr...

Business Process (BP) improvement and alike require accurate descriptions of the BPs. We suggest to describe BPs as use case specifications. A use case specification comprises a description of the context of the BP, the interactions between the agents involved in the BP, the interactions of these agents with an automated system supporting the BP and attached system internal requirements. Constr...

In this paper, we present a novel approach in automatic discourse segmentation without a full semantic understanding. In order to analyse the textual bonds and determine the degree of coherence that a discourse may exhibit, we first represent the tremendous diversity of textual relations into a discourse network. A set of mutual linguistic constraints that largely determines the similarity of m...