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In this contribution we illustrate the methodology and the results of an experiment we conducted by applying Distributional Semantics Models to the analysis of the Holy Quran. Our aim was to gather information on the potential differences in meanings that the same words might take on when used in Modern Standard Arabic w.r.t. their usage in the Quran. To do so we used the Penn Arabic Treebank as a...
Learning English requires a large number of vocabulary memories and needs numerous practices of using grammatical structures. In order to improve the learning efficiency, we propose a mobile-based micro system to help quickly master vocabulary uses. The system is based the vocabulary classification with consideration of complexity. The system features lie in monitoring practical vocabulary usages...
Vocabulary learning is sometimes boring and tedious for students, which may impact their learning enthusiasm and thereby constitutes a major barrier to their study. This paper proposes a new approach to solve this problem. The method lies in an integration of etymology together with vocabulary teaching. The proposed teaching strategy can kindle an interest among students to some extent, and hence...
Base on the brain electrical technology, this article studies vocabulary cognitive mechanism of Mongolian trilingual people. It Finds that priming effect exists between English and Chinese, English and Mongolian, illustrates that it has common semantics and the different layers of concept. This conclusion shows that for Mongolian college students, reasonable use of the information of the mother tongue,...
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of using a smartphone application in a Communicative Language Teaching context. Specifically, a web-based application called Let's Talk was designed to facilitate an Information Gap activity in an English language class. Participants were assigned to an experiment group using Let's Talk or a control group using textbooks to practice English conversation...
Linguistic competences are of foremost importance to students in ESP (English for Specific Purposes) programs where they receive training in areas such as vocabulary, sentence structure and rhetoric norms common to science engineering fields in order to function professionally in English in an increasingly international environment. To achieve this goal, students have to be nurtured in field-specific...
Technical writers and translators struggle with language consistency in emerging technologies. Corpus linguistics can track language structures in such quickly developing environments. An ad-hoc corpus may be the tool needed for technical communicators. Key concepts: Mega-corpora versus ad-hoc corpora: The term “mega-corpora” typically covers the existing national corpora, whereas ad-hoc corpora can...
This paper examines the mechanics and the implications of remediated practices in the context of virtual cross-organizational collaboration. Our treatment of the issue is informed by a case study aiming to assess how imbrications of representations hosted by different social media enable or constrain peer co-engagement of members in a virtual partnership. To this effect, we draw upon theories of agency...
The paper studies the computational application of students' English vocabulary acquisition in multimedia environment. It involves the application of audio, vision, and video information input to learn English vocabulary, together with aid of computer. It gives a brief introduction of current situation of vocabulary learning and teaching in China and abroad, and then introduces vocabulary acquisition...
With the development of computer science, the emerging of corpus provides convenience for the English teaching, especially English vocabulary teaching. But the existing research of English vocabulary teaching has been focusing on how to memorize words theoretically from cognitive linguistics perspectives. This paper introduced the method of the data-driven form-focused vocabulary teaching by concordancing...
A major concern our research addresses is how to enhance the children's use of the Arabic dictionary to encourage them to independently learn more vocabulary. Even though the first Arabic dictionary was developed almost 1500 years ago, the state of the art in Arabic dictionaries has not made much progress and falls far behind dictionaries for other languages. We propose a framework for building dictionaries...
English proficiency has become a critical criteria in further education. Among the four skills in language learning, writing is usually considered to be the last acquired skill because it is the most difficult. Lexical errors in college students' writing can be found frequently. And the learners' collocational competences confine the development of the fluency and accuracy of the writing. The corpus-based...
In this paper we address the problem of segmenting (and summarizing) a text by Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) using Lexical Chains established for the text. The first proposed method relies on the Conceptual hierarchy (Concept lattice) derived for a formal context expressing the map of Lexical Chains to the text. The second one offers a conceptual view for a segmentation, using a conceptual clustering...
Ontology is playing an increasingly important role in knowledge management and the Semantic Web. The tourism information ontology is becoming a core research field in the realm of information retrieval. The objective of this study is to explore the potential role of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) in a web-based ontology construction support system in a tourism domain. An ontology construction method...
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