Addressing differential item functioning (DIF) provides validity evidence to support the interpretation of test scores across groups. Conventional DIF methods flag DIF items statistically, but often fail to consolidate a substantive interpretation.
Zhi Li +2 more
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Linguistic features of an English-language Scientific Article on Economics [PDF]
The study aims at the analysis of the linguistic specifics in the English scientific Economics article. The author focuses on the functions of its structural features considered from the standpoint of the different language levels’ units pragmatic ...
Milostivaya Alexandra I. +1 more
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A Stylistic Approach to Thomas Campion’s There Is a Garden in Her Face / Thomas Campion’ın Yüzü Bir Gül Bahçesi’ne Biçembilimsel Bir Yaklaşım [PDF]
Literary works come into existence through authors’ use of language units in particular ways. Style is considered as the choice of linguistic characteristics from all the probabilities in language.
Halit Alkan
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Non-simplifying Graph Rewriting Termination [PDF]
So far, a very large amount of work in Natural Language Processing (NLP) rely on trees as the core mathematical structure to represent linguistic informations (e.g. in Chomsky's work).
Bonfante, Guillaume, Guillaume, Bruno
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Women’s Linguistic Features in Two Dramas
The present paper aims at describing linguistic features of two women who have two different characteristics—feminine and less feminine—as apparent in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and “The Lover” dramas. Using Robin Lakoff’s (1975) women’s linguistic
Aifi Umdatun Khoirot +2 more
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Lexical Sophistication in the Discussion Section of MA Theses Authored by Iranian EFL vs. English Students: A Coh-Metrix Report on Similarities and Differences [PDF]
This study compared the Discussion section of theses written by M.A. English L1 and L2 students regarding lexical sophistication. Certain linguistic features were applied to investigate whether texts written in English L2 had any similarities or ...
Masoud Azadnia
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Using Linguistic Features to Estimate Suicide Probability of Chinese Microblog Users
If people with high risk of suicide can be identified through social media like microblog, it is possible to implement an active intervention system to save their lives.
DM Blei +11 more
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Multimedia search without visual analysis: the value of linguistic and contextual information [PDF]
This paper addresses the focus of this special issue by analyzing the potential contribution of linguistic content and other non-image aspects to the processing of audiovisual data.
Jong, Franciska M.G. de +2 more
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Dilsel Çeşitliliğin Sınırları: Türkçenin Azrak Dil Özellikleri
The effort to understand the universal features of language often brings linguistic typology studies, which develop by identifying common structural features among languages, to the forefront.
Çağrı AKKUŞ, Özge CAN
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Gathering Statistics to Aspectually Classify Sentences with a Genetic Algorithm
This paper presents a method for large corpus analysis to semantically classify an entire clause. In particular, we use cooccurrence statistics among similar clauses to determine the aspectual class of an input clause.
McKeown, Kathleen R., Siegel, Eric V.
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