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Building a Discourse-Argument Hybrid System for Vietnamese Why-Question Answering. [PDF]
Recently, many deep learning models have archived high results in question answering task with overall F1 scores above 0.88 on SQuAD datasets. However, many of these models have quite low F1 scores on why‐questions. These F1 scores range from 0.57 to 0.7 on SQuAD v1.1 development set.
Nguyen CT, Nguyen DT.
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Does code-switching influence novel word learning? [PDF]
Spanish‐English bilingual children (MeanAge=5.05 years) were taught novel words in two conditions. In the English‐only condition, definitions for novel words were provided entirely in English. In the Code‐Switch condition, definitions for novel words were provided in English and Spanish, incorporating code‐switches.
Kaushanskaya M, Crespo K, Neveu A.
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The effect of gender agreement mismatches on intersentential anaphoric pronouns
This article focuses on the effect of gender agreement mismatches between personal pronouns and their antecedents across sentences. In two acceptability experiments, we test whether acceptability of gender agreement violations on animated nouns may be ...
Eduardo Correa Soares +1 more
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Learning in dos idiomas: The impact of codeswitching on children's noun and verb learning. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Codeswitching is a common feature of bilingual language practices, yet its impact on word learning is poorly understood. Critically, processing costs associated with codeswitching may extend to learning. Moreover, verbs tend to be more difficult to learn than nouns, and the challenges of learning verbs could compound with processing costs ...
Libersky E, Slawny C, Kaushanskaya M.
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INTERSENTENTIAL CODESWITCHING AMONG INDONESIAN-ENGLISH BILINGUALS
This study is aimed at investigating how the English-Indonesian bilingual speakers use language codes in their interaction through internet. The data for this study comprised a linguistic corpus made up from postings send to a newsgroup by its members ...
Hamzah Hamzah
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The extractive summarization approach involves selecting the source document’s salient sentences to build a summary. One of the most important aspects of extractive summarization is learning and modelling cross‐sentence associations. Inspired by the popularity of Transformer‐based Bidirectional Encoder Representations (BERT) pretrained linguistic model
Umair M +5 more
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A pragmatics-based approach to understanding intersentential ellipsis [PDF]
Intersentential elliptical utterances occur frequently in information-seeking dialogues. This paper presents a pragmatics-based framework for interpreting such utterances, including identification of the speaker's discourse goal in employing the fragment. We claim that the advantage of this approach is its reliance upon pragmatic information, including
Sandra Carberry
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This paper explores the role of intersentential connectives in complex narrative discourse so as to investigate the applicability of recent findings in the literature to more complex data than that usually found in theoretical studies of the phenomenon.
Pilar Alonso Rodríguez
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The role of reading fluency in children’s text comprehension [PDF]
Understanding a written text requires some higher cognitive abilities that not all children have. Some children have these abilities, since they understand oral texts; however they have difficulties with written texts, probably due to problems in reading
Marta eÁlvarez-Cañizo +2 more
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Intersentential Anaphoric Use of Personal Pronouns in English Discourse
The present article is concerned with the determination and descriptive analysis of the basic patterns of intersentential anaphoric use of personal pronouns in J. Galsworthy’s The Man of Property.
Darija Bartkutė
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