To investigate the effects of different glossing conventions on vocabulary recognition and recall, 158 participants were given a pre-test to make sure that they did not have any prior knowledge of the target words. Reading passages with four different glossing conventions (interlinear, marginal, pre-text, and post-text) were given to eight groups. Four groups received interlingual glosses and f...

This study was a qualitative exploration of the effect of multiple-choice glosses and periodic second language (L2) text reconstruction on lexical acquisition. L2 readers of German engaged in a think-aloud procedure while reading a short text and retelling its content in German after each of four short sections. In each section, four unfamiliar target words (TWs) were embedded. Half of the part...

This paper presents a suite of methods and results for the semantic disambiguation of WordNet glosses. WordNet is a resource widely used in natural language processing and artificial intelligence. Intended and designed as a lexical database, WordNet exhibits some deficiencies when used as a knowledge base. By semantically disambiguating the words in the glosses, we add pointers from each word t...

<p>The present study deals with two types of L2 glosses, namely dynamic and traditional text-based glosses. The former were presented to students as a set prompts designed help learners identify the correct keyword, whereas latter introduced annotations containing L1 equivalents. A third control group was included in study. Particularly, focus is compare effects these glosses Primary Educ...

this study compared the effects of two annotation modalities on the reading comprehension of iranian intermediate level efl learners. the two experimental groups under study received treatment on 10 academic l2 reading passages under one of two conditions: one group received treatment on key words in the reading passages through a multimedia environment providing textual annotations. the second...

The SENSEVAL-3 task to perform word-sense disambiguation of WordNet glosses was designed to encourage development of technology to make use of standard lexical resources. The task was based on the availability of sensedisambiguated hand-tagged glosses created in the eXtended WordNet project. The hand-tagged glosses provided a “gold standard” for judging the performance of automated disambiguati...