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Symbols as a Lingua Franca for Bridging Human-AI Chasm for Explainable and Advisable AI Systems [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Despite the surprising power of many modern AI systems that often learn their own representations, there is significant discontent about their inscrutability and the attendant problems in their ability to interact with humans. While alternatives such as neuro-symbolic approaches have been proposed, there is a lack of consensus on what they are about ...
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English in the mainstream: Heritage language or lingua franca? [PDF]
, 2006 This article examines fundamental assumptions that relate to the nature and role of the English language in Aotearoa New Zealand, including its use in society generally and in the school curriculum specifically.
Bruce, Ian
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The Decentering of Native English Speaking Teachers in English as a Lingua Franca Contexts [PDF]
, 2022 English’s spread throughout the world has made it the most widely studied second language in the world and the de facto lingua franca. Though the purpose of a lingua franca is to allow speakers with varied native languages to have a common language to ...
Folliard, Seamus
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The biocultural heritage and changing role of indigenous yams in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Global yam production is centred on West Africa, but there are significant knowledge gaps about farm‐level diversity across much of the region, and especially in Guinea. Although yam production is increasing in Guinea, in the longer term, varietal diversity and the sustainability of agri‐systems are at risk.
Nagnouma Condé +8 more
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High-Performance Deterministic Concurrency using Lingua Franca [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Actor frameworks and similar reactive programming techniques are widely used for building concurrent systems. They promise to be efficient and scale well to a large number of cores or nodes in a distributed system. However, they also expose programmers to nondeterminism, which often makes implementations hard to understand, debug, and test.
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English, the lingua franca of globalization [PDF]
, 2016 1 archivo PDF (14 páginas). fhquinquagintaduoEste trabajo revisa las causas que han hecho del inglés la lingua franca, lengua hegemónica, en la época actual. Primeramente se explora el concepto de lingua franca en su contexto histórico.
Serrano Godínez, María Dolores
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Iperstoria, 2015 Review of Current Perspectives on Pedagogy for English as a Lingua Franca.
Valeria Franceschi
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ALIST: Associative Logic for Inference, Storage and Transfer. A Lingua Franca for Inference on the Web [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Recent developments in support for constructing knowledge graphs have led to a rapid rise in their creation both on the Web and within organisations. Added to existing sources of data, including relational databases, APIs, etc., there is a strong demand for techniques to query these diverse sources of knowledge.
arxiv
Learnable Programming: Blocks and Beyond [PDF]
Communications of the ACM, June 2017, pp. 72-80, 2017 Blocks-based programming has become the lingua franca for introductory coding. Studies have found that experience with blocks-based programming can help beginners learn more traditional text-based languages. We explore how blocks environments improve learnability for novices by 1) favoring recognition over recall, 2) reducing cognitive load, and 3 ...
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Explaining employees’ reactions towards a cross-border merger:the role of English language fluency [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper, we focus on the role of language in cross-border mergers and acquisitions and explore how organization members’ language skills, or fluency, in the adopted lingua franca may impact their reactions to a merger.
Cornelissen, Joep P. +2 more
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