Note: This is a draft as of October 3, 2014 of a survey article now under review for the Companion to Semantics being prepared for Wiley by L. Matthewson, C. Meier, H. Rullmann, and E. Zimmermann. The intention is for the article to be engaging and accessible to students with 1 or 2 courses in formal semantics, so I’ve tried to keep it as non-technical and empiricallyoriented as possible. Sugge...

Academic writing ability is an important goal that learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL) try to attain. While ESL students’ academic writings have been widely explored, owing to few studies investigating appraisal resources in EFL students’ argumentative writing, the gap still exists about EFL students’ academic writing. This study aimed to see ho...

We present graded extension of the algorithm LinClosure. Graded LinClosure can be used to compute degrees of semantic entailment from sets of fuzzy attribute implications. It can also be used together with graded extension of Ganter’s NextClosure algorithm to compute non-redundant bases of data tables with fuzzy attributes. We present foundations, algorithm, preliminary analysis of its complexi...