... most of their schooling inEnglish or French, depending on thearea of the country in which they live. Because the major-ity of provinces in Canada offer educational instruction in English, many immigrant ... understanding of the reading process, including reading failure. Since the con-cept of learning disability was first outlined by Samuel Kirk(1963), investigators have concentrated on identifying thebasic ... notconsistent in their reporting of the level of proficiency in first language for ELLs. Thus, it is not known to what extentfirst language proficiency in ELLs in uenced the findings of studies we...
... present somepreliminary results of an investigation in course on the typology of the morphol-ogy of the native South American lan-guages from the point of view of the for-mal language theory. ... measure of their productivity(Heintz, 1991). Taking into account the productiv-ity of causative and reflexive verbal derivation wewill prefer a description in terms of a context-freelinear grammar ... LinguisticsThe useof formal language models in the typology of the morphology of Amerindian languagesAndr´es Osvaldo PortaUniversidad de Buenos Aireshugporta@yahoo.com.arAbstractThe aim of this...
... performance of our preprocessing in this case we 225 USEOF H~ru'RISTIC KN~L~EDGE IN CHINF SELANGUAGEANALYSIS Yiming Yang, Toyoaki Nishida and Shuji Doshita Department of Information ... ambiguity of syntactic category of words is a big problem in Chinese analysis. In another exa~ole, in English, "-ing" is used to indicate a participle, or "-ed" can be used ... "~,\~", (800 Mandarin Chinese Words), Bejing, (1980) 5. PREPROCESSING EFFICIENCY The preprocessing system for chinese language mentioned in the paper is in the course of development and...
... are going to use. The Practice ofEnglishLanguage Teaching deals specifically withthe teaching ofEnglish as a Foreign Language (EFL). It is not focusedespecially on English as a Second Language ... capable of both intentional and unintentional uses of language which are completely inappropriate.2.4.2StructuringdiscourseWe have described how competent language users need to know how to use the ... Handbooks for Language TeachersThe Practice ofEnglishLanguage Teaching New Edition - Jeremy HarmerAn Introduction to EnglishLanguage Teaching - John HaycraftTeaching Oral English New Edition...
... organizationallearning: Representing and maintaining knowledge in an experience base”, in Proc.Tenth Int. Conf. on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE’98,1998.44. T. Dingsøyr, “A ... management in software engineering projects”, in Proc.Int. Conf. on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE99, 1999,pp. 2027.65. P. Brăossler, Knowledge management at a software house: ... knowledgemanagement, and are eager to know how this is interpreted and used in softwareengineering, or for people in the software engineering field, who are interested in knowing more about what knowledge management...
... learning. Peer learning is becoming an increasingly important part of many courses, and it is being used in a variety of contexts and disciplines in many countries. The potential of peer learning ... way of moving beyond independent to interdependent learning. This idea of interdependence is important since the alternative is a more instrumental peer teaching approach which often involves ... depending on the type of peer teaching activity being undertaken. These include: levels of formality and informality, emphasis on individual or group learning, and learning goals of individuals...
... detection of English inclusions in mixed-lingual data with an applicationto parsing. Ph.D. thesis, Institute for Communicat-ing and Collaborative Systems, School of Informatics,University of Edinburgh.Eduardo ... frequency in Covoduring year t and frequency change in MZEE between tand year u = t + iInitial frequency and dissemination in MZEE In studying the fate of all words in two En-glish Usenet corpora, ... (anglicisms) are used in a German- language Internet hip hop forum, and whatfactors contribute to their uptake.1 IntroductionBecause English has established itself as something of a global lingua franca,...
... class of the majority of the items which reached it during training. The trees were grown using recursive partitioning; the splitting criterion was reduction in deviance. Using the Gini index ... function 145 Proceedings of EACL '99 Exploring the Useof Linguistic Features in Domain and Genre Classification Maria Wolters' and Mathias Kirsten 2 1Inst. f. Kommunikationsforschung ... stores all training set vectors in an instance base. New feature vectors are assigned the class of the most similar instancc. We use the Fuclidean distance metric for determining nearest ncighbours....
... terminal and terminal symbols of Gw. This trans- forms the question of determining whether a symbol is useful into a reachibility question on the graph of Ma In particular, for any string of ... ways of representing the parse forest one of which involves the useof linear indexed grammars and the other the useof context-free gram- mars. The work presented in this paper is intended ... corresponding nodes in/ 3. The remaining nodes in 7 ~ have the constraints of the corresponding nodes in 7. Given p E dom(7), by Ibl(7,p) we refer to the label of the node addressed # in 7. Similarly,...
... regarding useof lopinavir/ritonavir in neonates.oAddition of new pharmacokinetic data on nevirapine in preterm infants.ã Initial Postnatal Management of the HIV-Exposed Neonate:oBecause of ... elimination of perinatal transmission in the United States includethe continued increase in HIV infection in women of childbearing age;12absent or delayed prenatal care,particularly in women ... hematologic toxicity in infants receiving azidovudine/lamivudine-containing prophylaxis regimen, a recheck of hemoglobin and neutrophilcounts is recommended 4 weeks after initiation of prophylaxis...
... main computations of the Inside-Outside algorithm are indexed using the CKY procedure which is a bottom-up chart parsing algorithm. To summarize the main points 190 in our adaptation of ... wc call unconstrained training, of maximizing the likelihood of an unbrackctcd corpus. We will later describe the modifica- tions necessary to train with the constraint of a bracketed corpus. ... converge to a set of parameters which locally maximize the likelihood of generating the training corpus. We have found it use- ful to employ the trccbank to supervise the training of Recall (see...