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Showing 1 to 20 of 1126 for “"Multilingual"”.
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Unsupervised multilingual learning
… these traditional NLP tasks, we also present a multilingual model for lost language deciphersment. We test this model on the ancient Ugaritic language. Our results show that we can automatically uncover much of the historical relationship between Ugaritic and Biblical Hebrew, a known related …
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Teaching reading in multilingual classes
… investigated the teaching of reading in Grade 3 multilingual classes in one school in the Western Cape. It focused on the teaching strategies employed by teachers in teaching reading, the challenges teachers encountered in teaching reading to multilingual classrooms and the resources available to …
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Improving multilingual speech recognition systems
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Imagining multilingual spaces through scripted 'codeswitching' in multilingual performance: a case study of '7de Laan'
This thesis examines how multilingual spaces in South Africa are imagined and reconstructed through the use of scripted codeswitching in 7de Laan. It explores how the socio-political discourses and other ideologies from the broader South African context shape and influence the ways in which the …
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Generalised, multilingual, optical Braille recognition models
Optical Braille recognition (OBR) is the computer vision task of extracting and classifying character cells from a Braille document. This study investigates the impact of class imbalance and adverse data quality conditions on OBR performance, by training standard multiclass (well adopted …
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Increasing Student Achievement Among Multilingual Learners
… for increasing student achievement of multilingual learners (MLLs) in the Metro Heights School District were examined in this research. The research examined the district's current state ("As-Is") and created a vision for an equitable, inclusive future ("To-Be") using Patton's (2008) …
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Picture This: Black Girl Multilingual Magic
… methods to center the narratives of Black girl multilinguals in two-way dual language elementary programs with the instructional languages of Spanish and English in Southern California. Using Black girlhood (Brown, 2009) and sociocultural competence (Howard et al., 2017) as the theoretical …
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Multilingual multitask joint neural information extraction
… joint neural architecture, OneIE, that performs multilingual entity, relation, and event extraction simultaneously. In addition to multitask learning, we further incorporate global features to capture the cross-subtask and cross-instance interactions among knowledge elements. Finally, we propose …
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(Multilingual) Knowledge representation for epistemological access
In South Africa, the inability of many students to acquire knowledge and to successfully demonstrate acquired knowledge in assessments has, in part, been attributed to their low levels of proficiency in the language of learning and teaching (which is also the language of textbooks). This …
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Joint multilingual learning for coreference resolution
… system is one of the first attempts at joint multilingual modeling of named entity recognition and coreference resolution with limited linguistic resources. It performs second best on three out of four languages when compared to state-of-the-art systems built with rich linguistic resources. I …
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Exploratory relation extraction in large multilingual data
… information needs on the one hand and large multilingual datasets of unknown content on the other. Classical RE approaches are unable to handle such scenarios since they require a careful, upfront definition of extraction tasks before extractors can be created in an effort-intensive, …
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Language, Culture, and Learning: Supporting Multilingual Learners
… for understanding content-area instruction for multilingual learners (MLs). Central constructs such as scaffolding, language as a cultural tool, and social interaction within cultural contexts are explored to understand how they facilitate cognitive development, academic engagement, and …
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Resources for linguistically motivated Multilingual Anaphora Resolution
… language processing is the implementation of multilingual utilities for different tasks, like information retrival, summarization of documents in different languages or machine translation, tasks in which the resolution of anaphoric references plays a crucial role. This dissertation presents a …
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A collaborative Platform for multilingual Ontology Development
… language. This representation ensures a smooth multilingual enrichment process for linguistic resources and a robust construction of ontologies using language-independent concepts. The collaborative platform is designed following a workflow-based development methodology that models linguistic …
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Lexical access in bilingual and multilingual speakers
… war den lexikalischen Zugang bei bilingualen und multilingualen Personen zu untersuchen. Im Rahmen der Studie wurden die durchschnittlichen Antwortzeiten, Fehlerquoten sowie die Anzahl der „tip-of-the-tongue“-Zustände bei der Durchführung eines Bildbenennungsexperiments genauer untersucht. In …
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MULTILINGUAL TEXT READING IN NATURAL SCENE IMAGES
… character dataset, to advance the research in multilingual scene text recognition.
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Text Integration for the Multilingual Printed Page
… a broader understanding of the creation of a bi/multilingual ‘public informational’ document. Also, there was scrutiny of the underlying rationale(s) for the publication of such documents. The research then sought to develop criteria for the evaluation of bi/multilingual documents through …
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Second language learning from a multilingual perspective
… Dependencies (UD), a framework geared towards multilingual language analysis, and will support linguistic and computational research on learner language. Taken together, our results highlight the importance of multilingual approaches to the scientific study of second language acquisition, and …
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Multilingual Teachers and Teachers of Multilinguals: Investigating Pre-Service Teachers’ Multilingual-Identity and Belief Development during Teacher Education and Training
… them with the knowledge and awareness of multilingualism necessary to move away from a monolingual and assimilationist paradigm and create opportunities for all students to explore and develop their linguistic repertoire in the classroom. Although this objective has been supported by …
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