While social media offers freedom of self-expression, abusive language carry significant negative impact. Driven by the importance issue, research in automated detection has witnessed growth and improvement. However, these models display a reliance on strongly indicative keywords, such as slurs profanity. This means that they can falsely (1a) miss abuse without keywords or (1b) flag non-abuse w...

This article presents the first participation of the CINDI group in the Multiple Language Question Answering Cross Language Evaluation Forum (QA@CLEF). We participated in a track using French as the source language and English as the target language. CINDI_QA first uses an online translation tool to convert the French input question into an English sentence. Second, a Natural Language Parser ex...

the concept of tense is an important issue in the morphological and syntactic analysis of words and sentences. the connection between this concept and other parts of the sentence, including the verb, and understanding its structural, semantic and conceptual differences has always been considered by russian and persian linguists. in this article, various types of direct and figurative applicatio...

once severely rejected, first language (l1) use is no more considered to be inherently detrimental in foreign language pedagogy. recent research within sociocultural framework has come up with numerous facilitative roles for l1 use (anton and dicamilla, 1999; swain and lapkin, 2000; storch and wigglesworth, 2003). also, studies from humanistic perspectives that deal with the teachers’ and learn...

Many tasks in speech processing involve classification of long term characteristics of a speech segment such as language, speaker, dialect, or topic. A natural technique for determining these characteristics is to first convert the input speech into a sequence of tokens such as words, phones, etc. From these tokens, we can then look for distinctive phrases, keywords, that characterize the speec...