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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Lexical features"”.
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Analyzing lexical features to predict Indian ITAs’ performance in a university oral English assessment
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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The influence of lexical features on human rater's judgement of essay performance on local English Placement Test
… explored to what extent the prompts may affect lexical features and whether lexical features could distinguish essays that were rated as different proficiency levels in the integrated reading-writing tasks. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 262 essays from the English Placement …
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An analysis of the syntactic and lexical features of an Indian English oral narrative: A Pear Story study.
… the distribution of nonstandard syntactic and lexical features in Indian English (IE) across a homogeneous group of highly educated IE speakers. It is found that nonstandard syntactic features of article use, number agreement and assignment of verb argument structure do not display uniform …
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An analytical study of word frequency for pedagogical purposes based on a corpus derived from the business news sections of locally published English language newspapers in Taiwan
… approaches with the aim of ascertaining the lexical features of business news so as to assist Taiwan’s university students in reading business news articles for better comprehension. For this study, a 1.23 million-word Taiwanese Business News Corpus (TBNC) was created by collecting business …
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Integrating source-language context into log-linear models of statistical machine translation
The translation features typically used in state-of-the-art statistical machine translation (SMT) model dependencies between the source and target phrases, but not among the phrases in the source language themselves. A swathe of research has demonstrated that integrating source context modelling …
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Few-shot text classification with distributional signatures
… applying this approach to text is challenging-lexical features highly informative for one task may be insignificant for another. Thus, rather than learning solely from words, our model also leverages their distributional signatures, which encode pertinent word occurrence patterns. Our model is …
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Opinion Topic, Holder and Polarity in texts: exploration and automatic identification from cross-lingual data
… was constructed from bilingual dictionaries. Lexical features crucial for identifying the polarity were learned automatically. In addition to the lexical features, syntactic, morphological and contextual features were used in the learning algorithm. The syntactic structure of the sentence as …
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A Lexical Approach for Classifying Malicious URLs
… URL classification using a combination of lexical features, network tra c, hosting information, and other strategies. These approaches require time-intensive lookups which introduce significant delay in real-time systems. This paper describes a lightweight approach for classifying malicious …
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Affective analysis of text in tweets
… emoticons and hashtags. I use traditional lexical features and word embeddings to extract semantic and lexical information from the input text. I develop models ranging from linear and tree-based models to deep neural networks to perform emotion detection on Tweets. I create an ensemble of …
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Exploring the Role of Vocabulary in EFL Learners’ Speaking Proficiency: A Mixed Methods Study
… the vocabulary–speaking link by exploring lexical features and characteristics in spoken discourses, investigating the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and oral proficiency, and inspecting the association between lexical richness and speaking. However, little attempt has been made …
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Dependency-based Semantic Analysis of Natural-language Text
… classification task, which relies strongly on lexical features, is shown to benefit from dependency representations. The systems presented in this work have been evaluated in two international open evaluations, in both of which they achieved the top result.
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Discovering and summarizing email conversations
… the ClueWordSummarizer by considering more lexical features. The experiments show that many of those improvements can significantly increase the accuracy especially the subjective words and phrases.
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Il linguaggio della memoria nel "Cinema di Stato" (2015-2017)
… and relates a combination of semantic and lexical features of dialogues about the past and flashback scenes. The generated data is also interpreted using a close reading of the text. The results obtained offer a picture of a society projected towards the new in terms of values, but anchored …
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Relationships between lexical proficiency and L2 oral proficiency
<p>Lexical proficiency is strongly correlated with L2 productive language ability (Crossley, Salsbury, & McNamara, 2011; Laufer & Nation, 1995). While many studies have investigated the relationship between lexical proficiency and L2 writing ability, not many studies have been conducted in terms of …
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THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK, AFFECT, AND ORAL ENGLISH IMPROVEMENT
… from pretest to posttest in phonological features, lexical features, grammatical features, and general oral English skills. The participants also benefited from bountiful classroom discussion: despite many years of learning English in their home countries, their oral communication skills …
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Quantifying syntactic priming in oral production : a corpus-based investigation into dyadic interaction of L1-L1 and L2-L2 speakers of English
… and prime-target pair intervening distance, lexical boost and speaker identity. The verb-particle construction results show no evidence for priming as an independent predictor of verb-particle variant reproduction in L1-L1 and L2-L2 conversations. In both language conditions, the reuse of …
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Afrikaans-English in the Western Cape : a descriptive socio-linguistic investigation
… morphology and lexis of Afrikaans-English. The features of this variety are compared to those of standard South African English. The presence or absence of features in the speech of the informants is discussed and indicated in the tables given; the core features, i.e. those that are found even …
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On the Development of Differential Object Marking in Romance
… saliency, referentiality, animacy), and lexical parameters. In chapter 1, I briefly summarise the state-of-the art of the literature regarding DOM in Romance and establish several paucities within said literature that form the basis of the research questions of the present dissertation. …