The paper reports the on-going research for applying psycholinguistic resources to building and extending semantic networks. We survey different kinds of information that can be extracted from a Word Association Thesaurus (WAT), a resource representing the results of a large-scaled free association test. In addition, we give a comparison of WAT and other language resources (e.g. text corpora, e...

Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH) and Technique Feature Analysis (TFA) are two frameworks which operationalize depth of processing of a vocabulary learning task. However, there is dearth of research comparing the predictive power of the ILH and the TFA across second language (L2) vocabulary learning tasks. The present study, therefore, aimed to examine this issue across four vocabulary learning...

Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH) and Technique Feature Analysis (TFA) are two frameworks which operationalize depth of processing of a vocabulary learning task. However, there is dearth of research comparing the predictive power of the ILH and the TFA across second language (L2) vocabulary learning tasks. The present study, therefore, aimed to examine this issue across four vocabulary learning...

We present a novel probabilistic multiple cause model for binary observations. In contrast to other approaches, the model is linear and it infers reasons behind both observed and unobserved attributes with the aid of an explanatory variable. We exploit this distinctive feature of the method to automatically distinguish between attributes that are ‘off’ by content and those that are missing. Res...

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This paper reports results obtained in benchmark tests conducted within the ARPA Spoken Language program in November and December of 1993. In addition to ARPA contractors, participants included a number of %olunteers", including foreign participants from Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The body of the paper is limited to an outline of the structure of the tests and presents hig...

We present a project concerning phonetics teaching and learning. The user will have at his/her disposal a computerized text book with hypertext links with a speech data base, whose samples are directly accessible by a speech signal editor, Snorri. The link between the explanatory text book, the data base and Snorri allows the teacher to illustrate each statement of the course. Among the main fu...

Despite the general acceptance that the success of machine learning algorithms generally depends on data representation, most NLP and text mining systems and techniques still treat words as indices in a vocabulary, devoid of meaning. We believe that discarding semantic and syntactical similarity between words results in the loss of explanatory factors that would contribute to the success of the...

The need for non-standard text categorisation, i.e. based on some subtle criterion other than topics, may arise in various circumstances. In this study, we consider written responses to a standardised psychometric test for determining the personality trait of human subjects. A number of state-of-the-art text classifiers that having been very successful in standard topic-based classification pro...

Recent research on interfaces driven by line-markings indicates that there are many potential benefits and applications of such interfaces. Benefits include the exploitation of users' handwriting skills and their skills in understanding handwritten marks. There are systems that have exploited one or the other of these benefits but not both. One application which would take advantage of both of ...