The paper discusses the challenges of faceted vocabulary organization in universal classifications which treat the universe of knowledge as a coherent whole and in which the concepts and subjects in different disciplines are shared, related and combined. The authors illustrate the challenges of the facet analytical approach using, as an example, the revision of class 72 in UDC. The paper report...

This research stems from the problem of difficulty mastering language skills for foreign-speaking Arabic learners. study aims to answer two questions: How is application short speech program Ar-Raya University students in Sukabumi, Indonesia? What program's impact on development their skills? uses descriptive methods. Qualitative data were collected through interviews and observations. The resu...

objectives: one of the factors predicting language impairments is an early limited lexicon in children. an early limited lexicon can also lead to limited performances in other language areas. this study was aimed to examine receptive and expressive vocabulary in 8-16 month-old children with cleft lip and palate as a predictor of development in other language areas. materials: the macarthur-bate...

Many textbooks include semantically related words and sometimes teachers add synonyms, antonyms, etc. to the words in order to present new vocabulary items without questioning the possible effects. This study sought to investigate the effect of teaching vocabulary through synonym, semantically unrelated, and hyponym sets based on Higa’s (1963) proposed continuum. A total of 120 Iranian intermed...

Literature is replete with the studies focusing on the role of vocabulary knowledge in second language receptive skills. However, the relationship between the aspects of vocabulary knowledge and productive skills in general, and the speaking performance in particular has remained scanty in the related literature. This paper examined the relationship between knowledge of L2 vocabulary size at di...

This paper describes the integration of morpho-syntactic information in phrase-based and syntax-based Machine Translation systems. We mainly focus on translating in the hard direction which is translating from morphologically poor to morphologically richer languages and also between language pairs that have significant word order differences. We intend to use hierarchical or surface syntactic m...

Semantic Indexing Task (SIN) Run No. Run ID Run Description infMAP (%) 1 F A IUPR-DFKI 1 Fisher Kernel + SVMs 2.86 2 F A IUPR-DFKI 2 Color Correlogram + SVMs 5.38 3 F A IUPR-DFKI 3 Fisher Kernel fused with Color Correlograms + SVMs 5.0 4 F A IUPR-DFKI 4 Fisher Kernel + kNN 0.71 Content-based Copy Detection (CCD) Run No. Run ID Run Description Opt.NDCR 1 *iupr-dfki.fsift F-SIFT+BoW+HE+EWGC 0.776...

Black middle school students in the United States continue to perform poorly on standardized reading achievement tests in comparison to other racial and ethnic groups. The purpose of this research study was to examine the effectiveness of a vocabulary-focused test preparation program for Black middle school students. The theoretical framework consisted of Thorndike’s concept of test-wiseness, a...

We propose a new educational framework for educational exploration based on conceptual networks generated and explored by students supplied with Wikipedia linkage. In the first experimental setup we had a group of students (n=103) to create high-frequency lists of words and links between words, and in the second experimental setup we had another group of students (n=49) to explore a subsection ...