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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"paraphrasing"”.
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Idiomatic sentence generation and paraphrasing
… new tasks of idiomatic sentence generation and paraphrasing to fill this research gap. We introduce a curated dataset of 823 IEs, and a parallel corpus with sentences containing them and the same sentences where the IEs were replaced by their literal paraphrases as the primary resource for our …
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Scaffolding feedback interpretation process for creative work through reflection, paraphrasing, and information visualization
… we investigated the effects of combining paraphrasing and reflection techniques for feedback interpretation. Participants (N=104) created an initial design and revised it after reviewing feedback using one of the four strategies: a) paraphrasing feedback and then reflect, b) paraphrasing …
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The implementation of the exit slip strategy to examine the advancement of paraphrasing and summarizing Shakespearean text
… to help develop students' summarization and paraphrasing skills. Teacher feedback was also integrated onto the learning process to help reinforce and refine the skill development process. The findings in this study highlighted the importance of implementing and equipping students with …
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Effects of RAP Paraphrasing and Semantic-Mapping Strategies on the Reading Comprehension of English Learners and Fully- English-Proficient Students with Mild-to-Moderate Learning Disabilities
… of traditional instruction, the RAP Paraphrasing Strategy, the semantic-mapping strategy, and a combination of these strategies on the reading comprehension skills of 11 English learners (ELs) with learning disabilities and 8 fully English-proficient students (FEPs) with learning …
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A diversified instructional reading program in the fourth grade using a single basic text
… at this level, the type of creative writing or paraphrasing the story of the reading text, repetitious language arts activities, and research in reading could be developed so that all the children would achieve by using one basic reading text.</p>
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The Chimney
There is nothing worse, I think, than paraphrasing a poem, much less a whole manuscript of poems. Doing so wrongly implies that poetry exists mainly as ideas, and not, as it truly does, as words. Thus, that an "abstract" should summarize the writing in this thesis seems to me not only impossible, …
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Jazz Recordings by Ed Bickert and Problems of Stylistic Analysis
… “planing” and 2/3 note punctuation chords. Paraphrasing and motive/motivic development are important melodic aspects of Bickert’s style, though both usually involve other categories and required the most research due to the inadequacy or lack of consensus of definitions in the existing …
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Effect of Teaching Complex Noun Phrases for Reading Comprehension Purposes in EAP Programs
… on the structure of CNPs and the parsing and paraphrasing strategies aimed to help the students expediently and accurately interpret them results in more accurate interpretation of sentences containing them. A two-phase mixed-methods study resulted in three publications in peer-reviewed …
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Selected sequence signals in Japanese : a semantic analysis
… words which are generally used fo r summarizing, paraphrasing or c la rify in g what has been previously stated. The function of these four words is to re la te sentences in a discourse. Therefore, the meaning of the words cannot be discovered by considering a sentence in is o la tio n - they must …
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Multilingual writers' unintentional plagiarism: action research in college composition
… history, need maximum opportunities to practice paraphrasing, summarizing, and citing sources all to prevent unintentional plagiarism.</p>
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Methods of sentence extraction, abstraction and ordering for automatic text summarization
… perform sentence compression, fusion, and paraphrasing at the sentence level. We also model abstractive compression generation as a sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) problem using an encoder-decoder framework. Furthermore, we applied our sentence abstraction techniques to the multi-document …
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USE OF LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE MATCHING AND RETRIEVAL IN TRANSLATION MEMORY
… The results on both evaluations show that paraphrasing improves matching and retrieval. An approach based on manually designed features extracted using NLP systems and resources is presented, where a Support Vector Machine (SVM) regression model is trained, which calculates the similarity …
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Using Writing-To-Learn Strategies: Promoting Peer Collaboration Among High School Science Teachers
… 1) improving reading comprehension using paraphrasing, 2) activating prior knowledge using generic questions: who, what, where, when, why, & how, and 3) writing before and after other classroom activities to activate prior knowledge and then better integrate new information. The strategies …
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Thinking and creativity in learning mathematics teaching
… interactions were found to include metaphoric paraphrasing of what students said, but little integration. This finding highlights the need to understand better teachers’ comprehension of mathematical classroom dialogue from an interactional perspective. At the practical level, the study …
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Investigation of financial management practices in selected Mafikeng schools
… to the problem were explored by quoting them, paraphrasing them, and relating them to the research problem. This research used questionnaires for collecting data. The sample was selected from 1 0 schools in the Mafikeng district. Data analysis gave rise to a set of findings, which mainly …
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Generating Paraphrases with Greater Variation Using Syntactic Phrases
… paraphrases generated. The ParaMeTer system (Paraphrasing by MT) identifies syntactic chunks in paraphrase sentences and substitutes labels for those chunks. This enables the system to generalize movements that are more syntactically plausible, as syntactic chunks generally capture sets of …
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Haole Like Me: Identity Construction and Politics in Hawaii
… to something “other” and really, colonial. Paraphrasing rhetorician Kenneth Burke, this thesis analyzes how this word “works in the world,” and from there, explores how identity, culture, and belonging are constructed through language. The essential questions become: are culture and identity …
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Issues in ESL Academic Writing
… some serious issues with in-text citation and paraphrasing. As far as the underlying causes of issues were concerned, the lack of academic writing input and practice, differences in teaching and learning styles in the source country compared to the target country as well as sociocultural, …
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Testing and evaluation of machine learning’s capability of generating program code
… state-of-the-art LLMs remain robust under mild paraphrasing of task descriptions. Finally, the usability in multi-attempt generation process is automated using functional correctness and code smell feedback for prompt refinement and termination. Results indicate that while LLMs are usable for …
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