scholarly journals The diversity of lexical functions in Bulgarian and Russian: an approach to compatible digital comparative lexicography

2015 ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Svetlana Timoshenko ◽  
Olga Shemanaeva
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Word Sense Disambiguation ◽  
Important Application ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Computer Assisted Language Learning ◽  
Word Sense ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
Transmission Problems ◽  
Sense Disambiguation ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The diversity of lexical functions in Bulgarian and Russian: an approach to compatible digital comparative lexicographyThis paper presents an approach to the creation of Russian-Bulgarian digital dictionary of collocations using the apparatus of lexical functions. The project is aimed not only at the high-quality translation and word sense disambiguation but also at the cross-linguistic analysis and at comparing the semantics and compatibility of the words in Slavic languages (here: Russian and Bulgarian) by means of digital lexicographical data. Another important application is computer-assisted language learning: Bulgarian data can be incorporated in the educational project being developed for Russian and English at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Resolving Malay Word Sense Disambiguation Utilizing Cross-Language Learning Sources Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 11320-11324
Author(s):  
Fuad Yahaya ◽  
Nurazzah Abd Rahman ◽  
Zainab Abu Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Word Sense Disambiguation ◽  
Word Sense ◽  
Sense Disambiguation ◽  
Cross Language

scholarly journals Cognitive Metaphor and Discourse: Research Methods and Paradigms

2022 ◽  
pp. 108-121
Author(s):  
Oleg Kalinin
Keyword(s):  
Word Sense Disambiguation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Word Sense ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Cognitive Metaphor ◽  
Sense Disambiguation ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Basic Approaches ◽  
The One

The article dwells on a modern cognitive and discourse study of metaphors. Taking the advantage of the analysis and fusion of information in foreign and domestic papers, the researcher delves into their classification from the ontological, axiological and epistemological points of view. The ontological level breaks down into two basic approaches, namely metaphorical nature of discourse and discursive nature of metaphors. The former analyses metaphors to fathom characteristics of discourse, while the other provides for the study of metaphorical features in the context of discursive communication. The axiological aspect covers critical and descriptive studies and the epistemological angle comprises quantitive and qualitative methods in metaphorical studies. Other issues covered in the paper incorporate a thorough review of methods for identification of metaphors to include computer-assisted solutions (Word Sense Disambiguation, Categorisation, Metaphor Clusters) and numerical analysis of the metaphorical nature of discourse – descriptor analysis, metaphor power index, cluster analysis, and complex metaphor power analysis. On the one hand, the conceptualization of research papers boils down to major features of the discursive approach to metaphors and on the other, multiple studies of metaphors in the context of discourse pave the way for a discursive trend in cognitive metaphorology.

Using Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) materials in English as Second Language (ESL) classrooms: perspectives of teachers and students in United Arab Emirates

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramia DIRAR SHEHADEH MUSMAR
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Student Diversity ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Computer Assisted Language Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching

Integrating scaffolding-learning technologies has been recognized for its potential to create intellectual and engaging classroom interactions. In the United Arab Emirates, having language teachers employ computers as a medium of new pedagogical instrument for teaching second languages generated the idea of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) as a medium of an innovative pedagogical instrument for facilitating and scaffolding language learning, with an aspiration that it will lead to improved English language attainment and better assessment results. This study aims at investigating the perspectives of students and teachers on the advantageous and disadvantageous impacts of CALL on learning and teaching English as a second language in one public school in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. The results show that CALL has a facilitating role in L2 classroom and that using CALL activities is advantageous in reducing English learning tension, boosting motivation, catering for student diversity, promoting self-directed language learning and scaffolding while learning English. The results additionally report that numerous aspects like time constraints, teachers’ unsatisfactory computer skills, insufficient computer facilities, and inflexible school courses undesirably affect the implementation of CALL in English classrooms. It is recommended that further studies should be undertaken to investigate the actual effect of CALL on students’ language proficiency. 

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