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Comprehensibility assessment using the Karlsruhe comprehensibility concept
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2009 This article makes a contribution to text and translation quality assessment in the functionalist paradigm. It presents a communication-oriented framework for the evaluation of pragmatic texts including their translations with regard to their ...
Susanne Göpferich
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The Influence of the Gender Asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) on Comprehensibility and Interest
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Recently, the gender asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) has become more widespread in grammatical gender languages in order to represent all genders. Such gender-fair language is intended to help better address women and other genders and make their interests ...
Marcus C. G. Friedrich +3 more
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Disentangling accent from comprehensibility [PDF]
, 2012 The goal of this study was to determine which linguistic aspects of second language speech are related to accent and which to comprehensibility. To address this goal, 19 different speech measures in the oral productions of 40 native French speakers of ...
Trofimovich, P, Isaacs, Talia
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On the Comprehension of Program Comprehension
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2014 Research in program comprehension has evolved considerably over the past decades. However, only little is known about how developers practice program comprehension in their daily work. This article reports on qualitative and quantitative research to comprehend the strategies, tools, and knowledge used for program comprehension.
Maalej, Walid +3 more
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On Making Reading Comprehension More Comprehensive [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Machine Reading for Question Answering, 2019 Machine reading comprehension, the task of evaluating a machine’s ability to comprehend a passage of text, has seen a surge in popularity in recent years. There are many datasets that are targeted at reading comprehension, and many systems that perform as well as humans on some of these datasets.
Matt Gardner 0001 +4 more
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Deconstructing comprehensibility: identifying the linguistic influences on listeners' L2 comprehensibility ratings [PDF]
, 2012 Comprehensibility, a major concept in second language (L2) pronunciation research that denotes listeners’ perceptions of how easily they understand L2 speech, is central to interlocutors’ communicative success in real-world contexts.
Isaacs, T, Trofimovich, P
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Sense of coherence and employees’ perceptions of helping and restraining factors in an organisation
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2009 The objectives of this study were to assess the construct validity and reliability of the 13-item version of the Orientation to Life Questionnaire (OLQ) and to investigate whether employees with a strong sense of coherence perceived helping and ...
Yolande Muller, Sebastiaan Rothmann
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To Be or Not to Be Comprehensive [PDF]
The Annals of Family Medicine, 2015 That is the question. Specifically, it is the question posed by Bazemore et al in this issue of the Annals1 in their study of the association between the comprehensiveness of care provided by family physicians and health care costs for Medicare beneficiaries, framed in the context of an “existential debate” over the fundamental character of family ...
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On the Comprehensibility of EU Legislation: Reform for a sustainable EU [PDF]
, 2021 (Beitrag 5. Europäisches Symposium zur Verständlichkeit von Rechtsvorschriften) EU legislation is currently speaking to EU institutions, and Member States and their national authorities. It is therefore detached from EU citizens.
Xanthaki, Helen
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Evaluation of pharmaceutical pictogram comprehension among adults in the Philippines
Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2022 Background The use of pharmaceutical pictograms to enhance patients’ understanding of drug regimens has been proven effective in many countries. There are two reference systems for pictograms generally used in pharmacy: the United States Pharmacopeia ...
Margarita M. Gutierrez +2 more
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