... description in (45) cannot only serve for interpreting pronouns, but also for instantiating the contextually specified variable R for the interpretation of the noun ship in (46b) in the context of ... temporal interpretation. 6 Evaluating Time-dependent Predicates in Context Objects and certain of their properties can receive or maintain salience in a discourse in any number of ways. ... person asking (39b) is not interested in being informed about all ships that at some time in the fu- ture will go to Hawaii. Instead, the user is interested in a much more restricted set of ships...
... something.15. To be spinning your wheels. To be putting forth an effort that ishaving no useful effect.To be working in vain.16. To have a good mind to do something.To be inclined to dosomething. ... Up to something. Involved in some kind of mischief. Planningsomething.8. Something else. An expression meaning “somethingnoteworthy” or “something interesting or worth discussion.”9. To take ... Living Language, an imprint of Random House, Inc.Living Language is a member of the Random House Information GroupLiving Language and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.All...
... the teaching/ learning and translation ofidiomatic expressions containing the word „eye‟ in English. 3 3. Scope of the study ã In this study, idiomaticexpressions containing the word ... „eye‟ inEnglish 3.1.1 Expressing good points There are many idiomaticexpressions containing the word „eye‟ inEnglish expressing good points. 3.1.1.1 Positive looks - The English often ... THREE: IDIOMATICEXPRESSIONS CONTAINING THE WORD „EYE‟ INENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE ………………………………………………………… 3.1 Idiomaticexpressions containing the word „eye‟ inEnglish …………………… 3.1.1 Expressing...
... predicting listener backchannels. Au-tonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 20:70–84, Springer.Gabriel Murray and Steve Renals. 2008. DetectingAction Meetings in Meetings. In Proceedings of the ... promis-ing results in the automatic segmentation of dia-logue acts using the annotations in a large multi-modal corpus.Work has also been done on prosody and ges-tures in the specific domain of ... content is coded in terms of dialogue act, turnand agreement labels, and we provide inter-coderagreement measures. In Section 4 we account forthe annotation of head gestures, including inter-318...
... combined intoa single finite state machine (one for each concep-tual area). By examining the number of states andtransitions in the compiled finite state graphs, someindication of their relative ... high levels of accuracy in identifying theseconcepts in natural language text. The remainder of this paper describes our efforts in authoring andevaluating such a resource.3 Authoring recognition ... 6-11.Silberztein, M. (1999) Text Indexing with INTEX.Computers and the Humanities 33(3).Traum, D. (1993) Mental state in the TRAINS-92 dia-logue manager. In Working Notes of the AAAI SpringSymposium...
... pro-noun use in four European languages: Intralingualand interlingual dimensions. In Proceedings of theAnnual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society,Brisbane, Australia.Ralf Steinberger, ... alignmentsand often aligns single German to multiple English sentences.625 Helmut Schmid. 1994. Probabilistic Part -of- SpeechTagging Using Decision Trees. In Proceedings of theInternational ... for Computational LinguisticsTowards a model of formal and informal address in English Manaal FaruquiComputer Science and EngineeringIndian Institute of TechnologyKharagpur, Indiamanaalfar@gmail.comSebastian...
... 1998coffin hoist noun in electric line work, any type of chain hoist US,1980coffin lid noun a child. Rhyming slang for KID UK, 2000coffin nail noun a cigarette. From the link between smoking ... 1989cinch noun 1 a certainty US, 1890. 2 in horse racing, a horse that isvirtually certain to winUS, 1960cinchers noun brakes US, 1942Cincy; Cinci nickname Cincinatti, Ohio US, 1899cinder ... behind the nose of the plane US,1983. < keep your chin up to maintain your courage orfortitude; often said as an encouraging injunctionUK, 1938chin verb 1 to punch someone on the chin...
... may involve expressing ideas, wishes or opinions, negotiating or solving problems, or establishing or maintaining social relationships. Speaking is “the process of building and sharing meaning ... not like to speak Englishin class. 40% of the students answered that they had no interest in speaking English, 30% of the students had little interest in speaking English. In contrast, only ... skill. Surprisingly enough, 94% of the students and 100% of the teachers gave speaking skill much importance in learning English. 2.3.1.2. Students’ interest in speaking Englishin class Most...
... may involve expressing ideas, wishes or opinions, negotiating or solving problems, or establishing or maintaining social relationships. Speaking is “the process of building and sharing meaning ... particular role of speaking skill among the four language skills. 2.3.1.2. Students’ interest in speaking Englishin class Question: How do you feel interested in speaking Englishin class? ... use of verbal and non – verbal symbols, in a variety of contexts” (Chaney, 1998:13). Thus, speaking is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing and receiving,...
... Skills”. 1.2.2.2. Integration of skills The integration of skills is a combination of four language skills including Listening, Speaking, Writing and Reading is the most important task for ... main following contents: + Teachers’ perceptions of feasibility of Integration of skills to Reading at Maritime College; + Advantages of Integrated Approach; 7 + Disadvantages of Integrated ... 1.2.4. An integrated approach to teaching reading 1. When analyzed, there is a large overlap among the component skills of the four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. 2. In real-life...
... -reading, speaking, listening and writing- while teaching and practicing the language. In short, the integration of skills is a combination of four language skills including Listening, Speaking, ... reading Reading, in comparison with the other three skills, namely speaking, writing or listening, is not attractive. Learners are often not in the good mood for reading all of the time. King ... teaching renovation are given. 5. Significance of the study Being one of two colleges in Vietnam specializing in Maritime industry, MC has played a very important role in providing Maritime English...
... One of + plural noun19. all of us = almost us20. keep + V-ing = continue to inf21. used to + V inf (habit in the past)=> am/is/are +used to +V-ing (habit in the present)22. Make sb +to infShe ... STRUCTURES OF THE SENTENCES IN ENGLISH 1.Would you like + Vinf … ?2. Would you mind + V-ing….?Would you mind if + clause (not true)3. You had better + V- inf- would rather + Vinf ….(than)- ... delighted at/ be interested in/ take part in/ Take care of = look after be bored with/ be fed up with/ be tired of/ tell sb about st/get rid of/ give up/ depend on/ be different from/explain st to...