... University of Lancaster, England, to develop a suite of computer programs which provide a detailed grammatical analysis of the LOB corpus, a collection of about 1 million words of British English ... the light of the enormous variety and complexity of ordinary sentences in the corpus, and partly to create a databank of manually parsed samples of the LOB corpus, for the purposes of providing ... corpus weee printed in a single year (1961). The structure of the LOB corpus was designed to resemble that of the Brown corpus as closely as possible so that a systematic comparison of British...
... Oliv~ttL It is clear from examples such as these that the stressof Italian loans is not dependent upon the weight of the penultimate syllable, unlike the stressof native English words. Japanese ... determine the location of the primary stress. Shown below are some sample results of the program's ability to assign primary stress. * % Correct Number of Level 1 Primary Stress Words Tested ... using either the rules of the the language that it was borrowed from or the rules of the language that it was borrowed into. But neither the rules of Japanese nor the rules ofEnglish can account...
... LinguisticsLearning Semantic Links from a Corpus of Parallel Temporal and Causal RelationsSteven BethardInstitute for Cognitive ScienceDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of ColoradoBoulder, CO ... features derived from WordNet andthe Google N-gram corpus, and they out-performed a variety of baselines, achievingan F-measure of 49.0 for temporals and 52.4for causals. Analysis of these models ... Nkeyword(w) is the number of times the wordappeared in the keyword’s pattern, and N(w) is thenumber of times the word was in the corpus. Thefollowing features were derived from these scores:•...
... created a corpusof metalanguage from a subset of the British National Corpus, finding that approximately 11% of spoken utterances contained some form (whether explicit or implicit) of metalanguage. ... technologies, to the detriment of the performance of systems that could exploit it. This paper describes the creation of the first tagged and delineated corpus ofEnglish metalanguage, accompanied ... so will enable analysis of the syntax and semantics ofEnglish metalanguage. 3.1 Approach The article set ofEnglish Wikipedia2 was chosen as a source for text, from which instances were...
... a set of sentences from LSAT and GRE logic games, which again contain only two quantifiers from a limited list of quantifiers. Their corpus consists of 305 sentences. In around 70% of these ... the IAA of 52%. The current corpus contains 2500 sentences, out of which 500 sentences have already been an-notated. Our goal is to expand the corpus up to twice in size. 20% of the corpus ... 1. Corpus statistics (a) (b) Figure 4. DAG of scoping in (5) and its TC 144pairs and hence expand the corpus in a bootstrap-ping fashion. The data acquired from Mechanical Turk is of- ten...
... 1997:190). 27 The pattern ofstress in this sentence is stressed – unstressed – stressed – unstressed – stressed – unstressed, with equal number of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables. ... English learning time The table below indicates the time of learning Englishof all the third year English majors. As it can be seen from the table, of all the students, none of 18 Roloff ... stress can also help students to get more out of listening to spoken English. Sentence stress is not just a phonetic peculiarity of English. Sentence stress has a very important function of...
... point of view of theorists, it is the same effective equivalence between SL and TL. IV. English for Specific purposes in translation (ESP) IV.1. Definition of ESP From the early 1960's, English ... teaching ofEnglish for any purposes that could be specified. Others, however, were more precise, describing it as the teaching ofEnglish used in academic studies or the teaching ofEnglish ... professional purposes. To classify the meaning ofEnglish for specific purposes, Tony Dudley-Evans (1977), co-editor of the ESP Journal gives an extended definition of ESP in terminologies of...
... methodology and associated software system for the construction of a large lexicon from an existing machine-readable (published) dictionary. The lexicon serves as a component of an English mor- phological ... lexicographer. In the course of an interactive cycle of develop- ment, a number of entries are hypothesised and auto- matically generated from x single base form. The fam- ily of related surface forms ... analyser. We describe a software system with two integrated com- ponents. One of these is capable of extracting syn- tactically rich, theory-neutral lexical templates from a suitable machine-readabh...
... alignments of the motifs 1–5 of TOP6 subunit A (A) and motifs 1–4 of TOP6 subunitB (B) proteins of rice with other homologs from differ-ent organisms.Fig. S2. Schematic alignment of the position of ... intransgenic plantsThe induction of numerous stress- responsive genes is ahallmark ofstress adaptation in plants. To elucidate fur-ther the role of OsTOP6A3 and OsTOP6B in stress tolerance, we examined ... level of severalgenes under normal and stress conditions. This explan-ation is supported by the demonstration of the alteredexpression of a large number of genes by overexpres-sion of OsTOP6A3...
... of assessment of GCSE qualifications in English and/or English language for award of qualifications in 2014, 2015 and 2016, paragraphs 11 and 12 of the GCSE Subject Criteria for English ( English ... the Removal of Speaking and Listening Assessment from GCSE English and GCSE English Language Ofqual 2013 9 of students and we are particularly keen to hear views on this aspect of these proposals. ... state name of group, if you are responding from a representative group Consultation on the Removal of Speaking and Listening Assessment from GCSE English and GCSE English Language Ofqual...
... compilation of a sizeable and feasible corpus dedicated to capturing the use ofEnglish as an international language from a wide variety of first language backgrounds and a good range of settings ... compilation of this corpus is now in progress at the University of Vienna under the present author's direction: the Vienna-Oxford International CorpusofEnglish (VOICE) (cf. Seidlhofer 2001, ... for analysing these corpora (eg the Bank of English/ COBUILD, Longman-Lancaster Corpus, British National Corpus) . This has yielded a substantial crop of corpus- based teaching materials and reference...