English is one of the most prevalent languages worldwide, third only to Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. With millions of people learning English as a second language, it is a worthwhile endeavor to improve their experience by creating learning tools customized to them. For our project, we created a classifier that can take raw English text and identify the writer as either an English-native speak...

Teaching English to Engineers is part of English for Specific Purposes, a domain which is under the attention of English students especially under the current conditions of finding jobs and establishing partnerships outside Romania. The paper will analyse the existing textbooks together with the teaching strategies they adopt. Teaching English to Engineering students can intersect with domains ...

Sublanguages are specialized genres of language associated with specific domains and document types. When sublanguages can be recognized and adequately characterized, they are useful for a variety of types of natural language processing applications. Although there are sublanguage studies related to languages other than English, all previous work on sublanguage recognition has focused on sublan...

The appropriate use of hedging in scientific discourse is a vital skill for writers presenting their knowledge in an academic discourse community and much work has therefore been done on this relevant feature, especially on its use in the rhetoric of specialized texts in English. Some authors believe that there are considerable differences in styles of writing in particular cultures (e.g., see ...

The development of an online corporate training program is a challenge from many standpoints. When the training program involves specialized content and the need for the trainees to meet an international professional standard, the challenges multiply. This case study discusses the development of an online program for international aviation personnel who must meet a newly mandated English langua...

This paper intends to contribute research on the simplification hypothesis by incorporating a multi-discourse analysis. The study compares non-specialized and academic specialized discourse with aim of describing their similarities difference in terms syntactic stylistic simplification. Considering two variables (non-specialized/specialized original/translated texts) allows for examination whic...