Central auditory processing assessment has been used as a diagnostic tool for almost 50 years. The dichotic listening paradigm was introduced by Broadbent (1954) and, following Kimura’s first studies (1963), a large volume of research has been produced. Processing of auditory information during childhood may be altered if any predisposing factor is present during the course of development. Neur...

Automatically generating challenging distractors for multiple-choice gap-fill items is still an unsolved problem. We propose to employ context-sensitive lexical inference rules in order to generate distractors that are semantically similar to the gap target word in some sense, but not in the particular sense induced by the gap-fill context. We hypothesize that such distractors should be particu...

We evaluate the English—French word alignment data of the shared tasks from a phrase alignment perspective. We discuss peculiarities of the submitted data and the test data. We show that phrase-based evaluation is closely related to word-based evaluation. We show examples of phrases which are easy to align and also phrases which are difficult to align.

Background: Finding the right word is a necessity in communication, and its evaluation has always been a challenging clinical issue, suggesting the need for valid and reliable measurements. The Homophone Meaning Generation Test (HMGT) can measure the ability to switch between verbal concepts, which is required in word retrieval. The purpose of this study was to adapt and validate the Persian ve...

Supervised word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems are usually the best performing systems when evaluated on standard benchmarks. However, these systems need annotated training data to function properly. While there are some publicly available open source WSD systems, very few large annotated datasets are available to the research community. The two main goals of this paper are to extract and a...

conclusions the findings of this study indicate that older children are more proficient in comprehension of color words compared to younger children, and girls are more proficient than boys. the two easiest and two most difficult color words for children to comprehend within the 3 age groups were “black” and “red” and “phosphoric-green” and “turquoise-blue,” respectively. there was a positive r...

This paper is an overview of the SwatCS system submitted to SemEval-2013 Task 2A: Contextual Polarity Disambiguation. The sentiment of individual phrases within a tweet are labeled using a combination of classifiers trained on a range of lexical features. The classifiers are combined by estimating the accuracy of the classifiers on each tweet. Performance is measured when using only the provide...

Many studies have evaluated the utility of the Word Memory Test (WMT) as a symptom validity test. However, there is a lack of reference data for the WMT conventional memory subtests. The present study examined the demographic characteristics that influence performance on these subtests, in order to develop demographically corrected reference data. For this purpose, we administered the Dutch ver...

Participants studied lists of semantic associates that converged on a non-presented critical word (e.g., sleep; Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995) and took a two-alternative forced choice test. At test, each critical non-presented word was paired with a studied word from the same list. The test was administered either immediately or 7 days after the study phase. Accuracy in distinguishing...