Individuals with dyslexia have deficiencies in lexical organization and processing that are behaviorally manifested as difficulties in learning grapheme-phoneme correspondences. The present study investigates the lexical representations of Chinese reading-impaired children using event-related potentials (ERP) and time-frequency analysis. Two Cantonese-speaking male children, one with reading im...

the present study aims at investigating the effect of different levels of lexical collocational density on efl learners’ reading comprehension. eighty sophomore students with different levels of proficiency studying at  zand institute of higher education in shiraz, iran were chosen from among eighty five learners based on their score distribution on a reduced toefl test constructed by education...

The last decade has witnessed significant work in personality mining from lexical cues in social media data. Not much work has yet been undertaken in extracting these lexical cues from biographical data populating social media. Most of this work involves a large crowd of researchers leveraging dictionary-based approaches such as LIWC (which primarily focus on function words). By means of this p...

• Lexical cohesion on YouTube is multimodal, cross-modal and intertextual. Cohesive ties exist between the video comments as well comments. A discussion may appear fragmented but still show dense cohesion. Qualitative corpus methods reveal how fragmentation a feature surface only. This paper investigates use functions of lexical within across modes levels interaction channel, arguing that contr...

This paper summarizes FBK-irst participation at the lexical substitution task of the SEMEVAL competition. We submitted two different systems, both exploiting synonym lists extracted from dictionaries. For each word to be substituted, the systems rank the associated synonym list according to a similarity metric based on Latent Semantic Analysis and to the occurrences in the Web 1T 5-gram corpus,...

Mediation of Cohesive Clues in Simultaneous Interpreting: A Perspective of Interactive Embodiment and Mental Coherence Gao Wei Heriot-Watt University Abstract Based on interactive embodiment and mental coherence of cognitive linguistics (CL) (Lakoff1987, 1999; Langacker 2000, Zwaan2000, Wang Yin 2006) and also Relevance Theory (RT) (Sperber and Wilson 1986, 1995), this paper aims to reveal how ...

Movement recognition constitutes a central task in homebased assisted living environments and in many application domains where activity recognition is crucial. Solutions in these application areas often rely on an heterogeneous collection of body-sensors whose diversity and lack of precision has to be compensated by advanced techniques for feature extraction and analysis. Although there are we...