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of their schooling inEnglish or French, depending on the
area 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 the
basic ... not
consistent in their reporting of the level of proficiency in
first language for ELLs. Thus, it is not known to what extent
first language proficiency in ELLs in uenced the findings
of studies we...
... present some
preliminary 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. ... Linguistics
The useof formal language models in the typology of the morphology of
Amerindian languages
Andr
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Universidad de Buenos Aires
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Abstract
The aim of this ... morphology of one particular lan-
guage. On the other hand, the criteria of classi-
fication of Amerindian languages, do not involve
complexity criteria. In order to establish crite-
ria that take into...
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performance of our preprocessing in this case we
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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 ...
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Words), Bejing, (1980)
5. PREPROCESSING EFFICIENCY
The preprocessing system for chinese
language mentioned in the paper is in the course
of development and...
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the teaching ofEnglish as a Foreign Language (EFL). It is not focused
especially on English as a Second Language ... capable of both intentional and unintentional uses of
language which are completely inappropriate.
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the ... Handbooks for Language Teachers
The Practice ofEnglishLanguage Teaching New Edition - Jeremy Harmer
An Introduction to EnglishLanguage Teaching - John Haycraft
Teaching Oral English New Edition...
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learning: 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: ... knowledge
management, and are eager to know how this is interpreted and used in software
engineering, 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.
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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 application
to parsing. Ph.D. thesis, Institute for Communicat-
ing and Collaborative Systems, School of Informatics,
University of Edinburgh.
Eduardo ... frequency in Covo
during year t and frequency change in MZEE between t
and year u = t + i
Initial 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 what
factors contribute to their uptake.
1 Introduction
Because English has established itself as something
of a global lingua franca,...
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it during training. The trees were grown using
recursive partitioning; the splitting criterion was
reduction in deviance. Using the Gini index ... function
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Exploring the Useof Linguistic Features in Domain and Genre
Classification
Maria Wolters' and Mathias Kirsten 2
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instance base. New feature vectors are assigned
the class of the most similar instancc. We use the
Fuclidean distance metric for determining nearest
ncighbours....
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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.
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counts is recommended 4 weeks after initiation of prophylaxis...
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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
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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
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