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Jianing Zhou; Ziheng Zeng; Hongyu Gong; Suma Bhat – Grantee Submission, 2022
Idiomatic expressions (IEs) play an essential role in natural language. In this paper, we study the task of idiomatic sentence paraphrasing (ISP), which aims to paraphrase a sentence with an IE by replacing the IE with its literal paraphrase. The lack of large scale corpora with idiomatic-literal parallel sentences is a primary challenge for this…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Language Processing, Phrase Structure
Nicula, Bogdan; Dascalu, Mihai; Newton, Natalie; Orcutt, Ellen; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
The ability to automatically assess the quality of paraphrases can be very useful for facilitating literacy skills and providing timely feedback to learners. Our aim is twofold: a) to automatically evaluate the quality of paraphrases across four dimensions: lexical similarity, syntactic similarity, semantic similarity and paraphrase quality, and…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Networks, Semantics, Feedback (Response)
Huang, Eddie; Valdiviejas, Hannah; Bosch, Nigel – Grantee Submission, 2019
Metacognition is a valuable tool for learning, since it is closely related to self-regulation and awareness of one's own affect. However, methods for automatically detecting and studying metacognition are scarce. Thus, in this paper we describe an algorithm for automatic detection of metacognitive language in writing. We analyzed text from the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mathematics, Language Usage, Writing (Composition)
Todirascu, Amalia; Cargill, Marion – Research-publishing.net, 2019
We present SimpleApprenant, a platform aiming to improve French L2 learners' knowledge of Multi Word Expressions (MWEs). SimpleApprenant integrates an MWE database annotated with the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR) level and several Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools: a spelling checker, a parser, and a set of…
Descriptors: French, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lai, Shu-Li – Research-publishing.net, 2015
A number of studies have suggested the potentials of corpus tools in vocabulary learning. However, there are still some concerns. Corpus tools might be too complicated to use; example sentences retrieved from corpus tools might be too difficult to understand; processing large number of sample sentences could be challenging and time-consuming;…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Pinkham, Jessie – 1986
The development of a new grammar of English for machine translation systems at Weidner Communications Corporation is described. Although the project began with the intention of simply modifying the grammar rules already in use in the translation system, the reorganization of the grammar was deemed necessary for providing a principled manner of…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Processing, Machine Translation
Crain, Stephen; Coker, Pamela L. – 1978
This research examines how semantic information influences syntactic parsing decisions during sentence processing. In the first experiment, subjects were presented lexical strings having syntactically identical surface structures but with two possible underlying structures: "The children taught by the Berlitz method," and "The…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Rondal, Jean A.; And Others – 1986
Two experiments examined the process of acquisition of sentence structure in the passive voice among young children. The subjects were several hundred monolingual French-speaking children aged 4-11 in schools in Liege, Belgium. The two experiments used different subject groups. In the first experiment, the children were required to interpret…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, French
Frazier, Lyn – 1977
The model of sentence perception proposed by Fodor, Bever and Garrett (1974) emphasizes the importance of grammatical cues signalling clause boundaries, and suggests that segmentation of a sentence into clauses precedes computation of the internal structure of those clauses. However, this model has nothing to say about the many sentences in which…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research
Szolovits, Peter; And Others – 1977
This is a description of the motivation and overall organization of the OWL language for knowledge representation. OWL consists of a linguistic memory system (LMS), a memory of concepts in terms of which all English phrases and all knowledge of an application domain are represented; a theory of English grammar which tells how to map English…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Computer Science
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2007
The author is presenting a program that she designed for teaching liaison interpreting to translation students in their fifth semester of the translation program at the College of Languages and Translation (COLT), who are starting their training in liaison interpreting. The students never had any interpreting or translation training before. The…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nattinger, James R. – 1985
The position this paper assumes views vocabulary not as single words but as phrases, sentences, and sometimes entire segments of discourse that act as single words. This view of vocabulary would be helpful in: (1) bringing the vocabulary aspect of instruction in English as a second language (ESL) closer to current research in language performance,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Language Patterns, Language Processing
Foorman, Barbara R.; And Others – 1980
One hundred and twenty kindergarten and second grade children from three different language environments were given a perceptual matching test and a verbal communication test to examine the relationship between language and cognitive performance. The object of the study was to focus on the cognitive processing demands imposed by the linguistic…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Children, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies
Sternglass, Marilyn S. – 1979
Combining concepts of cognitive theory with those of rhetoric and linguistics can help writing teachers understand the kinds of activities that will enable basic writers to produce syntactic constructions appropriate for the content they have generated. A review of research studies of sentence combining, syntactic constructions, grammatical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Kernel Sentences, Language Processing, Memory
Mazuka, Reiko; And Others – 1986
A cross-linguistic comparison of syntax acquisition patterns examined preferential subject omission in the naturally-occurring speech of three Japanese toddlers from the Tokyo area and compared the findings to data on English acquisition. Results indicate that acquisition patterns of Japanese do not mirror those of English with regard to this…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English