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Jianing Zhou; Ziheng Zeng; Hongyu Gong; Suma Bhat – Grantee Submission, 2022
Idiomatic expressions (IEs) play an essential role in natural language. In this paper, we study the task of idiomatic sentence paraphrasing (ISP), which aims to paraphrase a sentence with an IE by replacing the IE with its literal paraphrase. The lack of large scale corpora with idiomatic-literal parallel sentences is a primary challenge for this…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Language Processing, Phrase Structure
Jurgens, Sister Jeanne Marie; Griffin, William J. – 1970
Seven objective measures of language production--number of words, T-units, subordinate clauses, clauses of all types, words per clause, words per T-unit, and clauses per T-unit--were applied to 269 compositions written by seventh, ninth, and 11th graders to test assumptions about the relationships between quality of writing and students' age and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Language Patterns