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English as a second or foreign language

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Stop Pre-Training: Adapt Visual-Language Models to Unseen Languages

Karl Aberer, Rémi Philippe Lebret, Negar Foroutan Eghlidi

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) has advanced the performance of many visionlanguage tasks, such as image-text retrieval, visual entailment, and visual reasoning. The pre-training mostly utilizes lexical databases and image queries in English. Previous w ...

Assoc Computational Linguistics-Acl2023

Inclusive engineering classrooms: student teaching assistants' perspectives

Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima, Helena Kovacs

Inclusive teaching is the intentional practice of recognising biases, working to mitigate their impact, and ensuring that students have equitable learning opportunities. In addition to improving students' sense of belonging and self efficacy, inclusive tea ...

TU Dublin2023

Single-fraction radiosurgery outcomes for large vestibular schwannomas in the upfront or post-surgical setting: a systematic review and International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society (ISRS) Practice Guidelines

Constantin Tuleasca

PurposeTo perform a systematic review of literature specific to single-fraction stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for large vestibular schwannomas (VS), maximum diameter >= 2.5 cm and/or classified as Koos Grade IV, and to present consensus recommendations o ...

Springer2023

Automated Essay Scoring in Foreign Language Students Based on Deep Contextualised Word Representations

Martin Jaggi, Bojana Rankovic

We introduce a method for automated grading of handwritten essays written by foreign language learners of French. The handwriting recognition system allows digitising the essays for further processing and functions at a low character error rate. The transc ...

2020

Automatic Speech Recognition Benchmark for Air-Traffic Communications

Petr Motlicek

Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) over the last decade opened new areas of speech-based automation such as in Air-Traffic Control (ATC) environments. Currently, voice communication and Controller Pilot Data Link Communications are the only way ...

ISCA2020

Developing teacher agency through dialogue

Roland John Tormey

Based on the experiences of a group of mainstream primary teachers of English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) learners in Ireland, a dialogic inquiry has the potential to influence perceptions regarding teacher agency. The participants examined their pract ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Appropriation of a representational tool in a second-language classroom

Yun Wen

While the affordances of face-to-face and online environments have been studied somewhat extensively, there is relatively less research on how technology-mediated learning takes place across multiple media in the networked classroom environment where face- ...

Springer2015

Web page language identification based on URLs

Monika Henzinger

Given only the URL of a web page, can we identify its language? This is the question that we examine in this paper. Such a language classifier is, for example, useful for crawlers of web search engines, which frequently try to satisfy certain language quot ...

2008

Perception Studies on the Attributes of Synthetic Clear Speech for the Hard of Hearing

Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

We make a case for ‘synthetic clear speech’ in the context of the persons with hearing impairment. We study the acoustic attributes of ‘clear speech’ that enable us to understand their importance in speech perception. Our perception experiments are motivat ...

IEEE2007