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Corpora have become bigger, better and more numerous, and their interfaces are quicker, simpler and freely available for use on any computer. At the same time, user manuals and teaching materials have been created to support the technology. The technological and pedagogical aspects of corpus-based language learning are equally important, but the previous research has been weighted towards the creation...
Natural sign language is the language form widely used by hearing impaired peoples for daily communication and the establishment of dynamic Chinese natural sign language corpus is the major content for accelerating Chinese sign language research and popularizing the use of sign language. In this thesis, the development situation of sign language corpus both at home and abroad is summarized, the major...
Linguistic competences are of foremost importance to students in ESP (English for Specific Purposes) programs where they receive training in areas such as vocabulary, sentence structure and rhetoric norms common to science engineering fields in order to function professionally in English in an increasingly international environment. To achieve this goal, students have to be nurtured in field-specific...
Computer learner corpora (CLC) collected from language learners have been mainly used in linguistic study, and it deserves the attention of exploiting its potential further. This paper will discuss ways in which CLC can be analyzed by utilizing the automated text retrieval technology and automated annotation technology. Pedagogical application of CLC will be discussed as well in the aspects of CLC-based...
In this paper, I illustrate the influence of two views of communication, the interactive alignment model and the collaboration model, on human-robot interaction design. I argue that these views may inspire different design approaches, with very different outcomes. After presenting the two models, I compare the two approaches in an empirical analysis, using the concept of shaping as an example. The...
Voice impersonators possess a flexible voice which allows them to imitate and create different voice identities. These impersonations present a challenge for forensic analysis and speaker identification systems. To better understand the phenomena underlying successful voice impersonation, we collected a database of synchronous speech and ElectroGlottoGraphic (EGG) signals from three voice impersonators...
IndusMarker is an automated short-answer marking system based on structure-editing and structure-matching rather than extensive use of linguistic features analysis. Since IndusMarker cannot guarantee 100% human-system agreement rate, the use of IndusMarker has therefore been limited to conducting practice tests. It was expected that such a use of IndusMarker will lead to improvements in student learning...
Natural sign language is the language form widely used by hearing impaired peoples for daily communication and the establishment of dynamic Chinese natural sign language corpus is the major content for accelerating Chinese sign language research and popularizing the use of sign language. In this thesis, the development situation of sign language corpus both at home and abroad is summarized, the major...
Piaget's theory of social exchanges has been used as the basis for the analysis of interactions in Multiagent Systems, allowing the modeling of interactions as services exchange processes between pairs of agents, followed by the evaluation of those services by the agents involved, producing the so-called social exchange values. The purpose of this work is to develop a BDI-Fuzzy agent model for the...
Second language acquisition is important for culture exchange, business, and politics. Arabic language is a Semitic language that used in twenty Middle East countries as an official language of hundreds of millions of people and considered as the religious language for all Muslims of various ethical and cultural backgrounds. Although there is much care of Arabic language traditionally, a lot of dictionaries...
With the globalization processing, intercultural communication and communicative failures have become more and more frequent. Cultural differences have become the major source of communicative failures. So it is necessary and important to raise intercultural communicative awareness. The author first analyzed the necessity of raising intercultural communication awareness, then discussed the principle...
Piaget's theory of social exchanges has been used as the basis for the analysis of interactions in Multiagent Systems, allowing the modeling of interactions as services exchange processes between pairs of agents, followed by the evaluation of those services by the agents involved, producing the so-called social exchange values. The purpose of this work is to develop a BDI-Fuzzy agent model for the...
This paper examines the mechanics and the implications of remediated practices in the context of virtual cross-organizational collaboration. Our treatment of the issue is informed by a case study aiming to assess how imbrications of representations hosted by different social media enable or constrain peer co-engagement of members in a virtual partnership. To this effect, we draw upon theories of agency...
The paper introduces a fuzzy system meant to control the oxygen pressure and amperage of a CNC metal plate cutting machine. The fuzzy system control the oxygen pressure and the amperage by analyzing the plate thickness and type, which eliminates the possible human error in making such decision. The system was implemented using as hardware a Simatic S7-\300 PLC.
Translator's initiatives have been widely explored within subject-object paradigm from the philosophical angle. This paper attempts to explore translator's initiatives from the angle that translator, acting as the subject of translational behavior, is human being. Motivation is the pivotal subjective factors regarding subject or human being. The author rests on Maslow's motivation theory in cognitive...
The present paper tries to substantiate the claim that users of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) will gain considerable language awareness, in terms of both semantics and grammar, while checking on the accuracy of their edited texts, if an integrated software material - which we intend to develop - is used. The following set of concrete proposals for developing such a software for the active study...
This paper focuses on oral English teaching via multimedia based on computer technology. Teaching approach, methods, and specific teaching design will be illustrated in this paper. By introducing multimedia into oral English teaching, the effectiveness of in-class teaching is believed to be improved. This paper will provide teachers and researchers with a good sample of oral English teaching in class.
In addition to discourse association and assuming that allocation of key information is an important feature of prosodic expressiveness of continuous speech, the common accentuation patterns across 3 Mandarin speech genres through 4 degrees of perceived emphases are derived. Using frequency count as another control, it is found that only 6 types of emphasis patterns are needed account for 70% of the...
A learner corpus is a very important resource for research on second language acquisition. In this paper, the design and development of a Chinese learner corpus is described. The corpus is based on compositions by learners from 59 countries. The procedure of the development of the corpus is reported, including coping, proofing, etc. Information such as type of writing, student number, time of writing,...
In order to deepen the understanding of the nature of first language acquisition, we carry a longitudinal recording of speech production of twenty-three Mandarin-speaking children from one year old to four years old at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing since 2009. The interactive communication between children and parents is recorded in both audio and video mode. Apart from longitudinal...
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