This article deals with a forensic linguistics case study of the determination of the level of a B1 English multiple-choice test that was challenged in court by numerous candidates on the grounds that it was not of the ...

This paper presents a classifier of text readability based on information-theoretic features. The classifier was developed based on a linguistic approach to readability that explores lexical, syntactic and semantic ...

The automatic analysis of speech to detect affective states may improve the way users interact with electronic devices. However, the analysis only at the acoustic level could be not enough to determine the emotion of a ...

Abstract: This case study investigated the cross-linguistic ability to classify content words or nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs of undergraduates whose L1 is Spanish and are attending an A1 English course at ...

Commonly a distinction is made between "diachronic linguistics" and "historical linguistics", in which the former would only handle structural linguistic data and the latter would consider the social (actually historical) ...

The applications of Automatic Vowel Recognition (AVR), which is a sub-part of fundamental importance in most of the speech processing systems, vary from automatic interpretation of spoken language to biometrics. State-of-the-art ...

Background: Term extraction is highly relevant as it is the basis for several tasks, such as the building of dictionaries, taxonomies, and ontologies, as well as the translation and organization of text data. Methods and ...