the present study attempts to investigate parsing preferences (early vs. late closure) of native and l2 learners of both english and persian when they read ambiguous relative clauses. the purpose is to find out if l2 learners process l2 linguistic input in the way monolingual speakers of that language do. the participants took tests including 10 test sentences plus 10 distractors, each followed...

We propose to organise a series of sharedtask NLG events, where participants are asked to build systems with similar input/output functionalities, and these systems are evaluated with a range of different evaluation techniques. The main purpose of these events is to allow us to compare different evaluation techniques, by correlating the results of different evaluations on the systems entered in...

The iotools package provides Input/Output (I/O) intensive data processing in R (R Core Team, 2014). Efficient parsing methods are included to minimize copying and avoid the use of intermediate strings. Methods support “chunk-wise” operations for computing on streaming input including arbitrarily large files. We present a set of examples for iotools, as well as benchmarks comparing similar funct...

CIRCSlM-Tutor version 2, a dialogne-based intelligent tutoring system (ITS), is nearly five years old. It conducts a conversation with a student to help the student learn to solve a class of problems in cardiovascular physiology dealing with the regulation of blood pressure. It uses natural language for both input and output, and can handle a variety of syntactic constructions and lexical items...