AbLit: A Resource for Analyzing and Generating Abridged Versions of English Literature [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Creating an abridged version of a text involves shortening it while maintaining its linguistic qualities. In this paper, we examine this task from an NLP perspective for the first time. We present a new resource, AbLit, which is derived from abridged versions of English literature books.
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International Journal for Educational IntegrityGenerative AI has prompted educators to reevaluate traditional teaching and assessment methods. This study examines AI’s ability to write essays analysing Old English poetry; human markers assessed and attempted to distinguish them from authentic ...
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I am Malala: A Woman’s Struggle for Her Rights in Education
Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature, 2019 The right to experience an education is a basic right for everyone to have. Men and women should have the same opportunities to get a proper education. However, some society seem to differentiate the opportunity for men and women’s education.
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Quantifying Synthesis and Fusion and their Impact on Machine Translation [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Theoretical work in morphological typology offers the possibility of measuring morphological diversity on a continuous scale. However, literature in Natural Language Processing (NLP) typically labels a whole language with a strict type of morphology, e.g. fusional or agglutinative.
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An Investigation of Indian Native Language Phonemic Influences on L2 English Pronunciations [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Speech systems are sensitive to accent variations. This is especially challenging in the Indian context, with an abundance of languages but a dearth of linguistic studies characterising pronunciation variations. The growing number of L2 English speakers in India reinforces the need to study accents and L1-L2 interactions.
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Expanding Scope: Adapting English Adversarial Attacks to Chinese [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Recent studies have revealed that NLP predictive models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Most existing studies focused on designing attacks to evaluate the robustness of NLP models in the English language alone. Literature has seen an increasing need for NLP solutions for other languages.
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Enhancing English Writing Proficiency in China's Polytechnic Students An In-Depth Literature Review on the Application of the Input Hypothesis [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Having good English writing skills is extremely important for students in polytechnic institutions. However, a lot of students in technical schools have difficulties in reaching high levels of skill. The Input Hypothesis, created by Stephen Krashen, suggests that people learn languages well when they receive information that's a little harder than what
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INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION OF A MULTICULTURAL FAMILY IN BURU REGENCY
Lingual, 2017 This study aimed at; 1) exploring the process of intercultural communication in a multiculturalism family in Namlea; 2) investigating the functions of intercultural communication in a multiculturalism family; 3) knowing the multiculturalism family ...
Saidna Zulfiqar Bin-Tahir +2 more
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A phenomenographic study on language assessment literacy: hearing from Iranian university teachers
Language Testing in Asia, 2021 This study aims to disclose the Iranian university teachers’ perceptions of the fundamentals of language assessment literacy (LAL). To this aim, using purposive sampling, eighteen university teachers from two Iranian universities were invited to ...
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The "higher" status language does not always win: The fall of English in India and the rise of Hindi [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Classical language dynamics explains language shift as a process in which speakers adopt a higher status language in lieu of a lower status language. This is well documented with English having out-competed languages such as Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Mandarin.
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