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Learning to Ground Multi-Agent Communication with Autoencoders [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Communication requires having a common language, a lingua franca, between agents. This language could emerge via a consensus process, but it may require many generations of trial and error. Alternatively, the lingua franca can be given by the environment, where agents ground their language in representations of the observed world.
arxiv  

Testing the Lingua Franca Core: The intelligibility of flaps

Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2022
Over twenty years ago, Jenkins (2000) put forth the Lingua Franca Core (LFC), a pronunciation syllabus for international intelligibility among non-native speakers (NNSs) of English. Although insufficient empirical research has been directed to validating
Darío Barrera-Pardo
doaj  

Financial Market Misconduct: A Bibliometric Perspective

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides a bibliometric analysis of financial market misconduct (FMM) research. It maps the intellectual structure of FMM studies, visualizes the field's scientific literature, and uncovers its intellectual backbone, emergent ‘hot topics’, key journals, and influential authors.
Rosella Carè, Rabia Fatima
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections on ELT pedagogy: Functioning and communicating in English [PDF]

Sintagma, 2013
Globalization and multicultural communicative settings have contributed to the expansion of English as the main international language and as a result, English as a Lingua Franca use has been on the rise.
Lili Cavalheiro
doaj  

Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara

The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti‐colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens ...
Joanna Allan, Moiti Mohamed Azrouk
wiley   +1 more source

Helmholtz Theorem and Uniqueness [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Vector calculus in three dimensions with a Euclidian metric is the lingua franca of classical physics, including classical electrodynamics. This article corrects some long-standing imprecision in a fundamental result. Some textbooks assert that a vector function defined in the whole of a three dimensional space is uniquely determined by its ...
arxiv  

The learning potential of English as a lingua franca contexts in the eyes of study abroad students

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
This paper presents insights from two interview studies with the aim of shedding light on the learning potential of studying abroad in an area where English is used as a lingua franca. The majority of previous research on study abroad focuses on students’
Sybille Heinzmann, Zeynep Köylü, Kristina Ehrsam   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a Conceptualization of Legal English as a Lingua Franca? [PDF]

, 2019
English is de facto reinforcing its role as the language of international legal communication. Indeed, while different national languages continue to play a crucial role in the definition, the execution, and the application of the law, English is ...
Anesa, Patrizia
core   +1 more source

Towards epistemic and linguistic justice in universities: Exploring the Australian university linguascene from student perspectives

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper addresses linguistic and epistemic justice by exploring multilingual practices in tertiary contexts in an English‐dominant linguistic ecology. The paper argues that the university linguistic space (linguascene) governs language choices toward English monolingualism, and this has implications for epistemic justice in multilingual ...
Anikó Hatoss, Eliot Allport
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamik: Syntactically-Driven Dynamic Font Sizing for Emphasis of Key Information [PDF]

In today's globalized world, there are increasing opportunities for individuals to communicate using a common non-native language (lingua franca). Non-native speakers often have opportunities to listen to foreign languages, but may not comprehend them as fully as native speakers do.
arxiv   +1 more source