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Investigating Thematic Roles through Implicit Learning: Evidence from Light Verb Constructions

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
The syntactic structure of a sentence is usually a strong predictor of its meaning: Each argument noun phrase (i.e., Subject and Object) should map onto exactly one thematic role (i.e., Agent and Patient, respectively).
Eva Wittenberg   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

NewsQA: A Machine Comprehension Dataset [PDF]

open access: yesRep4NLP@ACL, 2016
We present NewsQA, a challenging machine comprehension dataset of over 100,000 human-generated question-answer pairs. Crowdworkers supply questions and answers based on a set of over 10,000 news articles from CNN, with answers consisting of spans of text
Adam Trischler   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Synthesis of PEG-PLA Block Copolymer Nanospheres Containing Mixed Recombinant Proteins of Protective Antigen and Lethal Factor of Bacillus anthracis

open access: yesMajallah-i Dānishgāh-i ’Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Īlām, 2021
Introduction: Anthrax is a zoonotic disease and vaccine production is one way to protect people against this bacterium. This study investigates the application of copolymer nanocapsule (PEG-PLA) systems with controlled release specificity for a ...
Hossein Honari   +3 more
doaj  

Investigating Strategies for Mitigating and Avoiding Expert Blind Spot Development in Teaching English Attributive Adjectives

open access: yesLET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal, 2023
Teaching is a prominent paraphernalia that brings numerous insights for developing learners’ competence in educational concerns. However, teaching English to non-native learners poses challenges as innovative strategies are scant.
Farisani Thomas Nephawe
doaj   +1 more source

Improving reading fluency and comprehension in adult ESL learners using bottom-up and top-down vocabulary training

open access: yesStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
The current research examines the effect of two methods of vocabulary training on reading fluency and comprehension of adult English as second language (ESL) tertiary-bound students.
Rhonda Oliver, Shahreen Young
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic worldview virtualization exеmplified by K.S. Aksakov’s story «Cloud» [PDF]

open access: yesАктуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2018
"The article approves the idea that the categories of space and time being basic categories of existence and cognition of the world; they form the structure of the worldview and sociocultural human experience and they are expressed in the linguistic ...
Kalashnikova Larisa V.
doaj   +1 more source

Jokes in Italian as a foreign language: comprehension, funniness, and sharing

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2023
This paper analyses whether the comprehension of a joke in Italian as a foreign language is influenced by personal or task elements, whether comprehension influences the perception of funniness, and whether perceived funniness affects intention to share
Alejandra Platas-García   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cosmos QA: Machine Reading Comprehension with Contextual Commonsense Reasoning [PDF]

open access: yesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2019
Understanding narratives requires reading between the lines, which in turn, requires interpreting the likely causes and effects of events, even when they are not mentioned explicitly. In this paper, we introduce Cosmos QA, a large-scale dataset of 35,600
Lifu Huang   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Patients’ Comprehension of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in an Outpatient Clinic for Resistant Depression: A Cross-Sectional Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
The current study investigated the comprehension of mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy (MBCT) by patients with resistant depression at the Psychiatry Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Michele F. Rodrigues   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The NarrativeQA Reading Comprehension Challenge [PDF]

open access: yesTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017
Reading comprehension (RC)—in contrast to information retrieval—requires integrating information and reasoning about events, entities, and their relations across a full document.
Tomás Kociský   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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