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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"language input"”.
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Natural language input for a computer problem solving system
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, 1964
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Examining early word learning and language input through a longitudinal, experimental, and observational lens
… 2007). Some of the variability in children’s language skills can be attributed to differences in their language input (e.g., generally, children who hear more words say more words; Huttenlocher, et al., 1991; Huttenlocher, et al., 2010). However, there are many other factors at play that may …
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Early Vocabulary Acquisition by Down Syndrome Children: The Roles of Cognitive Development and Maternal Language Input
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role played by cognitive and social interactional factors in the early development of comprehension and production of object names by Down syndrome (DS) children.
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Recovering Ergativity in Heritage Samoan
The unique language profile of a heritage speaker offers an ideal opportunity to investigate the persistence of specific linguistic systems in the face of language shift (i.e. reduced input). Ergativity, the morphosyntactic system of alignment that sets A (the subject of a transitive verb) apart …
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Applied Literature: Expanding Cultural Understanding For Language Learners
… research on the use of literary texts in language learning. Specifically, it focuses on two groups of adult English language learners who are students at an American university as they read, write about, and discuss literature written by an author from the local area and which portrays the …
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A tree-to-tree model for statistical machine translation
… tree-to-tree approach, first the source-language input is parsed into a syntactic tree structure; then the source-language tree is mapped to a target-language tree. This kind of approach has several advantages. For one, parsing the input generates valuable information about its meaning. …
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Early Language Learning and Teaching of Toddlers from Mexican Immigrant Homes
This two-part dissertation investigated the home language experiences and language development of 35 toddler-aged children from low-income Mexican immigrant families. These children represent a rapidly growing demographic in the United States. Because early language abilities are closely linked to …
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The design and implementation of an input/output subsystem for a Farsi language search engine
… States for querying a web-based native Farsi language search engine. A document conversion utility consisting of a C program called html2unicode was constructed to convert the native language web pages into a common format. A Javascript keyboard application and corresponding embeddable web …
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Communicative value and linguistic knowledge in second language oral input processing
… value and linguistic knowledge in second language input processing. It was hypothesized that focus of attention on an element of low communicative value would negatively affect input processing for meaning while focus of attention on an element of high communicative value would not. It was …
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Inferring beliefs for search and rescue from natural language
A learned natural language robotic interface can allow a human operator to intuitively communicate instructions to a robot. A number of models, including probabilistic grounding graphs, have been used to ground natural language input to the real-world tasks a robot must perform. In this thesis, I …
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Realistic Dialogue Engine for Video Games
… with non-player characters using natural-language input. By using various techniques of modern Artificial Intelligence such as information retrieval and sentiment analysis, non-player characters have the capability of engaging in dynamic dialogue: they can answer questions, ask questions, …
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The Reflection of First-Language-Derived Processes in Second Language Acquisition
In research on first language acquisition, similarities between children acquiring any language have been attributed to the operation of common, universal processes, such as the formation of rules and rule generalization. However, it is not necessarily the case that processes for interpreting …
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Embodied object schemas for grounding language use
… the Object Schema Model (OSM) for grounded language interaction. Dynamic representations of objects are used as the central point of coordination between actions, sensations, planning, and language use. Objects are modeled as object schemas -- sets of multimodal, object-directed behavior …
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Implementation of dual system hypothesis in speech-language pathology
… has become the prevailing model of bilingual language development. This replaced the previously accepted unitary system hypothesis after decades of debate and research. It has also had an impact on the understanding of bilingual literacy development in children. This qualitative study …
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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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Early quadrilingual language acquisition: a longitudinal case study
… study examines the early quadrilingual language acquisition of a young girl, Sofia, who was born and raised in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. Sofia was exposed to Slovak, Japanese and English from birth and Italian from the age of 18 months. In addition to investigating the …
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Parametric synthesis of sign language
… of knowledge most hearing people have of sign language. To most, there seems to be little need to learn a language that is spoken by such a small minority unless perhaps a relative is unable to hear. Even with a desire to learn, the task may seem insurmountable due to the unique formational and …
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The effects of peer tutoring on first-grade middle school students' English reading achievement and self-esteem in China
<p>Traditional foreign language teaching pedagogy, such as the grammar-translation and audio-lingual methods, dominate most English language classrooms in China. Those methods provide a good deal of target language input but do not foster a student-centered learning environment. This study examined …
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Natural Language Driven Image Edits using a Semantic Image Manipulation Language
Language provides us with a powerful tool to articulate and express ourselves! Understanding and harnessing the expressions of natural language can open the doors to a vast array of creative applications. In this work we explore one such application - natural language based image editing. We …
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The narrative abilities of a severely hard-of-hearing child
… of various narrative types is altered when language input is impaired in cases of congenital hearing loss, where it is expected that the acquisition of linguistically transmitted sociocultural knowledge will be delayed but cognitive knowledge will not. A 4-year-old severely hard-of-hearing …
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