... collocational expression as “a syntactic andsemantic unit whose exact and unambiguous mean-ing or connotation cannot be derived directly fromthe meaning or connotation of its components”.The ... available with reasonablyhigh accuracy for many languages.3 Empirical evaluationEvaluation of collocation extraction methods is acomplicated task. On one hand, different applica-tions require different ... ex-pressions, and proper names. Collocations are ofhigh importance for many applications in the fieldof NLP. The most desirable ones are machine trans-lation, word sense disambiguation, language...
... Disambiguation: AnEmpiricalStudyon Japanese Web Search Query Makoto Imamura and Yasuhiro Takayama Information Technology R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation 5-1-1 Ofuna, Kamakura, Kanagawa, ... An EmpiricalStudy of the Behavior of Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation, Proc. of the main conference on Human Language Tech-nology Conference of the North American Chapter of ... Chan, Y. S. and Ng, H. T. 2007. Domain Adaptation with Active Learning for Word Sense Disambigua-tion. Proc. of ACL 2007, 49-56. Chen, J., Schein, A., Ungar, L., and Palmer, M. 2006. An Empirical...
... MULTIPLES AND ROE 17 TABLE 2: PERFORMANCE MEASURE AND WILCOXON RANK SUM TEST RESULT WHEN COMPARABLE FIRMS ARE BASED ON PLANTATION SECTOR 18 TABLE 3: PERFORMANCE MEASURE AND WILCOXON RANK SUM ... chosen plantation sector and dataset will be explained; and in the nextpart, it is devoted into empirical findings and discussion; at last, appropriate conclusions and future suggestions are ... denotes that "mean > median > mode" and "mean ≥ harmonic mean". In this scenario, median and harmonic mean is closer to each in right skewed distribution compared to left...
... 1999. Active learning for naturallanguage parsing and information extraction. In Pro-ceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, pages 406–414.Simon Tong and Daphne ... active learning with applications to text clas-sification. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Interna-tional Conference on Machine Learning. Antal van den Bosch, Walter Daelemans, and Ton Wei-jters. ... International Confer-ence on Machine Learning, pages 150–157.Susan Dumais, John Platt, David Heckerman, andMehran Sahami. 1998. Inductive learning algorithmsand representations for text categorization....
... for Tailored-Verbose condition. The Tailored-Concise condition was also significantly better than the No-Argument condition, but to a lesser extent. Logs of the interactions suggest that this ... Tailored-Concise condition to be more effective than arguments generated for the Tailored-Verbose condition. We also expect the Tailored-Concise condition to be somewhat better than the No-Argument ... conditions. With respect to the other measures of argument effectiveness mentioned in Section 3.1, we have not found any significant differences among the experimental conditions. 6 Conclusions...
... correlations in the convexity, and insignificant negative correlations in the change in slope for bonds with longer maturities, and insignificant positive correlations in the change in slope for bonds ... Moody’s and Lehman Brothers bond indices. Callable bonds show stronger negative correlations than non-callable bonds. Collin-Dufresne et al. (2001) study the determinants of the credit spread changes ... section describes the relationship between interest rates and aggregate default rates, including contemporaneous correlations, and correlations over time. 4.1 Contemporaneous Correlations Changes...
... and Yule’s (1983: 127), speaking skill consists of short, fragmentary utterance, in a range of pronunciation. There is often a great deal of repetition and overlap between one speaker and another ... research contains Limitation of the study, Recommendation for further study and Conclusion.2 -Teachers’ opinions of speaking activities and of students’ attitude to speaking lessons-Teachers’ ... students of Doluong1 Upper-Secondary School in Nghe An with regard to the teaching and learning of English speaking skills and some recommendations. The study only focuses on 26 of 43 classes,...
... of data collection and data analysis. IV. Data analysis and discussion This focuses on presenting, analyzing and discussing the results obtained from the study. V. ConclusionThis provides ... internationalization and globalization is developing very fast. So everyone needs to use a common language. So far, many people have learnt and used English as an international language.Vietnam ... establish and maintain interpersonal relations, and through this to exchange information ,ideas, attitudes, opinions, and feelings, and to get things done. Communicative activities can be classified...
... personality, learning strategies, teaching strategies, attitudes and motivation as well as environment and context of learning. 2.2. Definitions of language acquisition“Language acquisition ... description of aims and the participants of the study will be given. The second part is an analysis on the data from the survey questionnaire, class observation and the interview.3.2. Context ... (Data collection and analysis) consists of two parts. The first part focuses on the context of the study, in which the description of aims, the participants, and data collection of the study has...
... NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOIUNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIESDEPARTMENT OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES BÙI HẢI SƠNM.A. MINOR THESIS AN AMERICAN – VIETNAMESE CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY ... Hanoi, 2009 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOIUNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIESDEPARTMENT OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYỄN VĂN A M.A. MINOR THESISSYNTACTIC AND SEMANTICO ... 22 15 Cohort: MA 15Supervisor: Dr. Le Van An or Do The ky, MAHanoi, 2009 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOIUNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIESDEPARTMENT OF POST-GRADUATE...
... American and the Vietnamese.Part C: CONCLUSIONSummary of major findingsConclusion and Implications for cross-cultural communicationLimitations of the study and Suggestions for further study. 3 ... Body language, Pan Books London and Sydney, LondonJulius, F., (1991), Body language in the workplace, Penguin Books, New YorkKnapp M. L. and Hall J. A (2002), Nonverbal Communication in Human ... inflection and other sounds) and 55 percent nonverbal. (Pease, 1984:6)Importance of nonverbal communication - Mehrabian7%93%VerbalNonverbalChart 1: Importance of Nonverbal CommunicationIt...
... FINDINGS 312. CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION 313. LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY 32APPENDICES 33BIBLIOGRAPHY 34vii AN AMERICAN – VIETNAMESE ... CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY ON NONVERBAL EXPRESSIONS OF DISAPPOINTMENTABSTRACTThe purpose of this study was to investigate the most common nonverbal expressions of disappointment used by American and Vietnamese ... American informants’ observation. 30 questionnaires were sent out and 30 responses were received.One result of the study was that disappointment seemed to be a universal emotion of which American...