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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Plain English"”.
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Creating a Fog: Can Plain English Be Used to Mislead Investors?
<p>A recent growth in textual analysis research in the accounting and finance literature relies heavily on context to draw conclusions about the readability or sentiment of the text under study. Yet the complexity of the text used in the financial disclosure is also relevant in evaluating …
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Determinants and Consequences of Earnings Disclosure Readability
… whether changes in the regulatory environment (Plain English Guidelines, Reg. FD and SOX), management pessimism, and meeting/beating or missing analyst forecasts have had an impact on earnings disclosure readability over the 1997-2007 timeframe and whether firm managers are able to make negative …
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Parsing of Natural Language Requirements
… manual rework. The requirements were written in plain English with only loose stylistic constraints. While full automation proved infeasible, many significant advances were made towards solving the problem, including a framework for storing requirements, a program which translates most of the …
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EGGG : The extensible graphical game generator
… such a software system can be constructed. In plain English, the thesis is that games are really a lot more alike than most people imagine, and that these similarities can be used to create a generic game engine: you tell it the rules of your game, and the engine renders it into an actual …
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Paediatric caregivers: The characteristics of inpatient and discharge advice
… discharge letter for caregivers written in plain English.
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Lessons learnt developing and deploying grading mechanisms for EiPE code-reading questions in CS1 classes
… skill in the middle ground is by asking them Explain in Plain English (EiPE) questions, where they are asked to explain the purpose of a piece of code at a high level. Prior works involving EiPE questions have used scoring rubrics that do not adequately handle the three dimensions of answer …
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Strategies and exercises for assessing code writing and reading ability at scale
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms