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... 2000; Tenenhauset al., 1995) and recent investigations on computa-tional models for language acquisitionand ground-ing (Siskind, 1995; Roy and Pentland, 2002; Yu and Ballard, 2004), we are particularly ... perceptually groundedobjects in the environment (Siskind, 1995; Roy and Pentland, 2002; Yu and Ballard, 2004). Especially in(Yu and Ballard, 2004), an unsupervised approachbased on a generative ... gaze and spoken utter-ances during human machine conversation to auto-matically acquire and interpret vocabularies.Motivated by psycholinguistic studies (Just and Carpenter, 1976; Griffin and...
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... '99 and DNA entities was too small to train with. As part of the overall project we are creating an expert-tagged corpus of MEDLINE abstracts and full papers for training and testing ... extract named entity properties, events and other domain-specific concepts from MEDLINE abstracts and full texts. One part of this work is the construction and maintenance of an ontology for the ... structure). Eventu- ally we hope to be able to identify and extract do- main specific facts such as protein-protein binding information from full texts and to aid biochemists in the formation of cell...
... Electric, Pratt and Whitney, and Rolls-Royce (North America).This report should be of interest to the cost-analysis community, the military aircraft acquisition community, andacquisition policy ... into military engine technology, the military aircraft acquisi-tion process, and parametric cost-estimating methodologies.This study draws from databases from various Air Force, Navy, and military ... OneINTRODUCTIONSTUDY BACKGROUND AND PURPOSERealistic cost estimates for military aircraft play an important role indeveloping sound budgets and in contributing to an effective acquisition policy. RAND has a long...
... both Vietnamese teachers and students considered that it was safe to learn and memorize rules. Vietnamese learners are also famous for scrutinizing words and phrases and paid little attention ... learning strategies on the learning and teaching of foreign and second language. Good choice and use of learning strategies would help learners become more independent and autonomous as well as improve ... related to female’s social skills, stronger verbal skills, and greater conformity to academic and linguistic norms. In their study, Bacon and Finnemann (1992) also find that women use more “private/...
... discussion and its impacts on speaking and its impacts on speaking ability of the non-major ability of the non-major students at the post-students at the post-elementary level in Military ... participants in PTP group performed better and more accurately than those in NP group in terms of EFVF and EFNF (in terms of tense, subject verb agreement and pronouncing morpheme-s in plurality ... complexity and accuracy.-Find out other factors affect students’ speaking competence-experiment in higher or mixed proficiency level students -Include the subjects of both male and female...
... Department ofEducation and Arts (1994), the review ofresearch into language and literacy byFreebody and Gilbert (1999), and thereview of recent developments inlanguage and literacy development ... EducationCommission of Victoria.Anderson, M. (1992) Intelligence and Development: A Cognitive Theory.Oxford, UK, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Andrews, S. (1989). Psycholinguistics and reading acquisition: The ... real words,both regular and irregular (effect sizes of.55, .46 and .60), and on the measures ofreading comprehension and listeningcomprehension (effect sizes of .69 and .40).A further follow-up...
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... understanding of the production of military activities would be valuable. Interest in experience, training, personnel quality and flexibility, and teamwork is long-standing. However, the military ... define and measure experience and individual effectiveness. Work by Dahlman, Kerchner, and Thaler (DKT) (2002) demonstrates the importance of identifying and maintaining the proper experience and ... Table 3.1. Career Training and F-14 Landing Performance 18 Table 3.2. Training in Previous Month and F-14 Landing Performance 18 Table 3.3. Career Training Hours and Bombing Error 19 Table...
... ASLIB’99 Translating and the Computer 21.N. Kando. 2001. Overview of the SecondNTCIR Work-shop. In Proc. Second NTCIR Workshop on Researchin Chinese and Japanese Text Retrieval and Text Sum-marization.P. ... terminology acquisitionand lexicalresources enrichment (Dejean et al., 2002; Fung,2000; Koehn and Knight, 2002; Rapp, 1999).This paper presents a novel approach to bilin-gual terminology acquisition ... vectorsof source and target languages.First experiments were conducted on the severalcombinations of weighting parameters and schemesof SMARTretrieval system for documents terms and query terms....