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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Language Content"”.
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Searching for commonsense
… this knowledge may be acquired by mining natural language content on the Web. Specifically, this thesis emphasizes the representation of knowledge in the form of binary semantic relationships, such as cause, effect, intent, and time, among natural language phrases. The central hypothesis is that …
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Multimedia for language learning
Students studying foreign languages often wish to enjoy authentic foreign-language content - for example, foreign-language videos and comics. Existing means of presenting this content, however, are suboptimal from the perspective of language learning. We have developed a pair of tools that aim to …
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Formality Style Transfer Within and Across Languages with Limited Supervision
While much natural language processing work focuses on analyzing language content, language style also conveys important information about the situational context and purpose of communication. When editing an article, professional editors take into account the target audience to select appropriate …
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Perceptions of Faculty and Instructional Designers on Multicultural Learners’ Needs in Massive Open Online Courses
… instruction delivered to learners of different language, cultural and educational backgrounds around the world. These multicultural learners have diverse communication styles, learning behaviors and needs that are manifested and demonstrated differently in such a large scale online learning …
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Iran in U.S. Corporate and Regional Media: A Content Analysis of The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rooz Online, Al Jazeera and Iran Review
… need to systematically assess the available news content about this conflict. Using content analysis of two legacy U.S. news outlets, and three outlets more focused on Iran including: one regional corporate news service, one European citizens’ media outlet, and one lobby group for the Islamic …
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English medium instruction policies as a form of symbolic control: Making visible the changing faces of language and content in higher education
… social concerns of equality and access. As the language of instruction plays an important role in shaping what is re-contextualized and reproduced, there is an urgent need to examine the changing processes of organizing, transmitting, and acquiring knowledge in EMI contexts. In other words, this …
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Aspects of cohesion in web site translation: a translator's perspective
… most challenging aspects of translation as each language has its own unique manner in which it employs cohesive devices in the creation of a cohesive text. A web site can be described as a multi-modal and multi-linear instrument of communication where language, image and audio content combine to …
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Changes in the Content and Prosody of Mothers' Speech to Infants Across the First Postnatal Year
… was to examine the linguistic and prosodic content of infant-directed speech to infants, and to explore the relationship that exists between the prosodic features and the content of this speech, and how this relationship changes over the first eight months after birth. Analyses were …
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Origins of postmodern impegno: ethical and political commitment in the works of Gianni Celati
… This study analyses Celati’s choices in terms of language, content and style to see in what way his idea of literature engages with society and proposes Celati’s ethical and political commitment as a determining aspect to be considered when studying his oeuvre. In addition, it investigates what …
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Keep an eye on stereotypes – the impact of gender stereotypes (toward humans and robots) on language processing
… for sexist responses, and social desirability on language processing were explored. Fourth, investigations were extended to the field of social robotics (Experiment 3 and Experiment 4). The adverbs’ and the main verbs’ gender-stereotypicality and the speaker voice did not guide participants’ …
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Indigenous language usage in a digital library: He hautoa kia ora tonu ai
… described in this thesis examines indigenous language usage in a digital library environment that has been accessed via the Internet. By examining discretionary use of the Māori Niupepa and Hawaiian Nūpepa digital libraries this research investigates how indigenous languages were used in these …
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Weakly Supervised Machine Learning for Cyberbullying Detection
… identifies bullying incidents by examining the language content in the message; another learner considers the social structure to discover bullying. Each learner is using different body of information, and the individual learner co-train one another to come to an agreement about the bullying …
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Deep generative models for speech editing
… can be roughly decomposed into four components: language content, timbre, pitch, and rhythm. Obtaining disentangled representations of these components is useful in many speech analysis and generation applications. Recently, state-of-the-art voice conversion systems have led to speech …
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A Quasi-Experimental Study on the Impact of Explicit Instruction of Science Text Structures on Eighth-Grade English Learners' and Non-English Learners' Content Learning and Reading Comprehension in Three Inclusive Science Classrooms
… structures plus micro text structures on the content learning, sentence comprehension, and reading comprehension of eighth-grade English Learners (ELs) and non-English Learners (non-ELs) in three inclusive science classrooms. Although the results of this study did not show significant …
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Academic language development through technology: English learners in a fifth grade science class
… In particular, this study explores how ELs use language to socialize and how they are socialized to use language during technology-assisted tasks in a science classroom within a given participant structure. Findings show that five different participant structures were used during …