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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Language analysis"”.
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Natural language analysis via augmented transition networks (ATN)
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Transfer learning for low-resource natural language analysis
… transfer learning scenarios: (1) transfer across languages and (2) transfer across tasks or domains in the same language. In multilingual transfer, we tackle challenges from two perspectives. First, we show that linguistic prior knowledge can be utilized to guide syntactic parsing with little …
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Critical language analysis of Palestinian and Israeli online newspapers and news websites during the 2014 Gaza War
… top-down approaches with macro-level tools of analysis which lead to a dichotomous positive ‘Self’ and negative ‘Other’ representation. This study, in contrast, is a qualitative language-based analysis of three Israeli and three Palestinian online newspapers and news websites during the 2014 …
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Science as a Second Language: Analysis of Emergent Bilingual Performance and the Impact of English Language Proficiency and First Language Characteristics on the Colorado Measures of Academic Success for Science
… Core State Standards, the need for academic language is even more important than ever. The language of science has been compared to a second language in that it uses specific discourse patterns, semantic rules, and a very specific vocabulary. There is a need for educators to better understand …
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The Primary Language Classroom: Praxis and Perceptions of Metalinguistic Awareness
… teaching and learning in primary school Modern Languages, in this case French. The research took place in Scotland after the recent introduction of a Scottish Language Policy, “The 1+2 Language Approach”.<br/><br/>The study focused on insights into the following: <br/> •Manifestations or …
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Academic resilience: narratives of high-achieving Black female middle school adolescents
… identities were explored with word choice and language analysis. Habits and factors contributing to the participants' success revealed their beliefs about academic achievement. Through the use of narrative inquiry, data were collected from semi-structured in-depth individual interviews, …
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Accuracy of Automated Developmental Sentence Scoring Software
… DSS programs may increase efficiency of DSS analysis; however the program must be accurate in order to yield valid and reliable results. A recent study by Sagae, Lavie, and MacWhinney (2005) proposed a new method for analyzing the accuracy of automated language analysis programs. This method …
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VoxelPrompt: A Vision-Language Agent for Grounded Medical Image Analysis
We present VoxelPrompt, an agent-driven vision-language framework that tackles diverse radiological tasks through joint modeling of natural language, image volumes, and analytical metrics. VoxelPrompt is multi-modal and versatile, leveraging the flexibility of language interaction while providing …
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ENGLISH WORD-MAKING
… goals and to the enhancing of skills in language analysis, speaking, reading, vocabulary growth, grammar and usage study, spelling, composition, and literary interpretation.</p><p>The main body of the text consists of ten chapters, each exploring, diachronically and synchronically, a …
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Descriptive Phrases: Understanding Natural Language Metadata
… getting leverage over the data. Deeper levels of analysis include language analysis, starting from purely string-based (keyword) approaches, continuing with syntactic-based approaches and now semantics is about to be included in the processing loop. Metadata gives a leverage over the data. Often a …
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Grammatical analysis: its role in the reading of legal texts
… due attention is given to the elements in the language which are capable of encoding various functions and particular realizations of these functions determine the register of the text under consideration (cf. Bex, 1996:95). In our analysis of the statutes of the University of Zululand and the …
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Understanding Language Use Patterns of People with Chronic Pain: A Novel Assessment Approach
… chronic pain conditions by using natural language analysis to examine how differences in linguistic style reveal important information related to attentional focus, social connectedness, cognitive bias, and other clinical dimensions in a sample of data collected from a pilot study of …
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Learning Analytics for Academic Writing through Automatic Identification of Meta-discourse
… by meta-discourse. Today, there are some natural language processing systems which automatically detect authors’ rhetorical moves in scholarly texts. Hence, when assessing their students’ essays, educators could benefit from the available automated textual analysis which can detect meta-discourse. …
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The Effects of Language Variation and Age on Measures of Narrative Microstructure
… study was to explore the relationship between language variation, age and narrative microstructure in the spoken narratives of African American school-age children. While efforts to identify language-variety fair measures are underway (e.g., Mills et al., 2021; Mills et al., 2017; Mills & Fox, …
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Second language learning from a multilingual perspective
How do people learn a second language? In this thesis, we study this question through an examination of cross-linguistic transfer: the role of a speaker's native language in the acquisition, representation, usage and processing of a second language. We present a computational framework that enables …
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Using Authentic Materials to Develop Listening Comprehension in the English as a Second Language Classroom
Listening, the most frequently used form of language skill, plays a significant role in daily communication and educational process. In spite of its importance, listening ability development has received only slight emphasis in language instruction. Nevertheless, U.S. college classrooms, where …
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A Comparative Study of Yoga’s Most Foundational Scriptures and Relevant Biblical Passages
This dissertation is an analysis of yoga’s most foundational scriptures: the Patanjali Yoga Sūtras (PYS) and the Bhagavad Gītā (BG) in their original Sanskrit. My thesis is that these yogic scriptures contradict sound, biblical teaching. The significance of this thesis is that, insofar as a yoga …
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Variation in the educated spoken Arabic of Jordan with special reference to aspect in the verb phase
… where variation is accorded a central role in language analysis, the educated spoken Arabic of Jordan (ESAJ) is recognized as a viable variety in the Arabic continuum, intersecting with modern standard Arabic (MSA) and the colloquials. The recognition of ESAJ raises serious questions against …
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The multifaceted measurement of the individual through language
… quantified in high-dimensional space using language analysis techniques. This approach essentially constitutes the quantification of the individual as a cluster of traits/processes by means of psychological traces that are embedded in (and can be measured indirectly via) a person’s language. …
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The Experience of Attrition: A Phenomenological Study of Freshmen in Academic Good Standing at The University of Montana
… of the experience in the participants' natural language. Analysis revealed that participants felt excited and hopeful prior to matriculation and quickly became overwhelmed and confused early first semester. Mid-semester students' feelings of being unfocused surfaced, exhibited in isolation and …
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