This study explored the relationship between EFL learners’ vocabulary size, lexical coverage of the text and reading comprehension texts (narrative & argumentative genres). To this end, 120 male and female out of 180 students studying at Talesh Azad University were selected based on their performance on the Nelson Proficiency Test. A Nelson reading proficiency test was also administered in orde...

This paper presents a multi-dialect, multi-genre, human annotated corpus of dialectal Arabic with data obtained from both online newspaper commentary and Twitter. Most Arabic corpora are small and focus on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). There has been recent interest, however, in the construction of dialectal Arabic corpora (Zaidan and Callison-Burch, 2011a; Al-Sabbagh and Girju, 2012). This wor...

The approach which formulates the automatic text summarization as a maximum coverage problem with knapsack constraint over a set of textual units and a set of weighted conceptual units is promising. However, it is quite important and difficult to determine the appropriate granularity of conceptual units for this formulation. In order to resolve this problem, we are examining to use components o...

Selecting efficiently a minimum amount of text from a largescale text corpus to achieve a maximum coverage of certain units is an important problem in spoken language processing area. In this paper, the above text selection problem is first formulated as a maximum coverage problem with a Knapsack constraint (MCK). An efficient rank-predicted pseudo-greedy approach is then proposed to solve this...

In NTCIR-7 MOAT, we participated in four sub-tasks (opinion & holder detection, relevance judg-ment, and polarity classification) at two languagesides: Japanese and English. In this paper, we fo-cused on the feature selection and polarity classifi-cation methodology in both languages. To detectopinion and classify the polarity, the features wereselected based on a st...

Current phrase-based SMT systems perform poorly when using small training sets. This is a consequence of unreliable translation estimates and low coverage over source and target phrases. This paper presents a method which alleviates this problem by exploiting multiple translations of the same source phrase. Central to our approach is triangulation, the process of translating from a source to a ...

The Coverage of Social Skills in 6th Grade’s Social Studies Text M. Khaademi, Ph.D. M. Mohammadi, Ph.D. R. Naaseri Jahromi S. Mansoori Considering the general approach in the national curriculum emphasizing both nature and nurture, the 6th grade’s social studies curriculum aims at psycho-social development of both children and adolescents. To identify the freq...