Compared with the traditional method of adding sentences to get summary in multi-document summarization,a two-stage sentence selection approach based on deleting sentences in acandidate sentence set to generate summar...Compared with the traditional method of adding sentences to get summary in multi-document summarization,a two-stage sentence selection approach based on deleting sentences in acandidate sentence set to generate summary is proposed,which has two stages,the acquisition of acandidate sentence set and the optimum selection of sentence.At the first stage,the candidate sentenceset is obtained by redundancy-based sentence selection approach.At the second stage,optimum se-lection of sentences is proposed to delete sentences in the candidate sentence set according to itscontribution to the whole set until getting the appointed summary length.With a test corpus,theROUGE value of summaries gotten by the proposed approach proves its validity,compared with thetraditional method of sentence selection.The influence of the token chosen in the two-stage sentenceselection approach on the quality of the generated summaries is analyzed.展开更多
This research,grounded in the theory of discourse intonation,investigates Chinese EFL learners' intonation features in interactive context.Its research findings reveal that Chinese EFL learners differ from British...This research,grounded in the theory of discourse intonation,investigates Chinese EFL learners' intonation features in interactive context.Its research findings reveal that Chinese EFL learners differ from British native speakers in their application of tone units,prominence selection and tone choice.It further points out that these intonation features are caused on the one hand by Chinese EFL learners' relatively low English proficiency level and on the other hand by their lack of awareness of the communicative and discourse function of intonation.Based on these findings,this research proposes that a discourse-based awareness-raising approach to intonation teaching in the input-poor Chinese EFL context might be of pedagogical necessity and effectiveness.展开更多
This study draws on usage-based approach to language learning and investigates the role of syntactical indeterminacy and token frequency in constructional acquisition, for which reflexive verb constructions were selec...This study draws on usage-based approach to language learning and investigates the role of syntactical indeterminacy and token frequency in constructional acquisition, for which reflexive verb constructions were selected as the testing field. Syntactic structures of reflexive verbs are either by reflexive constructions or adjectival passive, which have a polysemous interrelationship within the verb. To examine whether syntactic indeterminacy and token frequency play a role in the acquisition of reflexive verb constructions, a test of reflexive verb constructions and a baseline test formed with transitive verbs were developed and administered to L2 learners of an intermediate proficiency level. The findings show： （1） L2 reflexive verb constructions were less acquired than transitive constructions, suggesting that syntactic indeterminacy had an impact upon sentence production; （2） no significant difference was found between the productions of reflexive constructions and adjectival passives, but descriptive statistics showed that learners were attracted to the adjectival passive for production; （3） production of both syntactic structures reflected token frequency trend from COCA, indicating the important role of frequency in complex constructional acquisition.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60575041)the High Technology Researchand Development Program of China(No.2006AA01Z150).
文摘Compared with the traditional method of adding sentences to get summary in multi-document summarization,a two-stage sentence selection approach based on deleting sentences in acandidate sentence set to generate summary is proposed,which has two stages,the acquisition of acandidate sentence set and the optimum selection of sentence.At the first stage,the candidate sentenceset is obtained by redundancy-based sentence selection approach.At the second stage,optimum se-lection of sentences is proposed to delete sentences in the candidate sentence set according to itscontribution to the whole set until getting the appointed summary length.With a test corpus,theROUGE value of summaries gotten by the proposed approach proves its validity,compared with thetraditional method of sentence selection.The influence of the token chosen in the two-stage sentenceselection approach on the quality of the generated summaries is analyzed.
文摘This research,grounded in the theory of discourse intonation,investigates Chinese EFL learners' intonation features in interactive context.Its research findings reveal that Chinese EFL learners differ from British native speakers in their application of tone units,prominence selection and tone choice.It further points out that these intonation features are caused on the one hand by Chinese EFL learners' relatively low English proficiency level and on the other hand by their lack of awareness of the communicative and discourse function of intonation.Based on these findings,this research proposes that a discourse-based awareness-raising approach to intonation teaching in the input-poor Chinese EFL context might be of pedagogical necessity and effectiveness.
文摘This study draws on usage-based approach to language learning and investigates the role of syntactical indeterminacy and token frequency in constructional acquisition, for which reflexive verb constructions were selected as the testing field. Syntactic structures of reflexive verbs are either by reflexive constructions or adjectival passive, which have a polysemous interrelationship within the verb. To examine whether syntactic indeterminacy and token frequency play a role in the acquisition of reflexive verb constructions, a test of reflexive verb constructions and a baseline test formed with transitive verbs were developed and administered to L2 learners of an intermediate proficiency level. The findings show： （1） L2 reflexive verb constructions were less acquired than transitive constructions, suggesting that syntactic indeterminacy had an impact upon sentence production; （2） no significant difference was found between the productions of reflexive constructions and adjectival passives, but descriptive statistics showed that learners were attracted to the adjectival passive for production; （3） production of both syntactic structures reflected token frequency trend from COCA, indicating the important role of frequency in complex constructional acquisition.
