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Impact of heat waves and cold spells on cause-specific mortality in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The impact of heat waves and cold spells on mortality has become a major public health problem worldwide, especially among older adults living in low- to middle-income countries. This study aimed to investigate the effects of heat waves and cold spells under different definitions on cause-specific mortality among people aged 65 years and over in Sao ...
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Spelling is a fundamental literacy skill facilitating word recognition and thus higher-level reading abilities via its support for efficient text processing (Adams, 1990; Joshi et al., 2008; Perfetti and Stafura, 2014).
Katherine I. Martin +4 more
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Bahastra, 2021 The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics of a spelling learning syllabus oriented towards improving Higher Order Thinking (Berpikir Tingkat Tinggi/BTT) skills in elementary schools; describe the characteristics of lesson plans for ...
Main Sufanti +2 more
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Iranian EFL Learners’ Perceptions about Automatic Spelling Correction Software Use for Learning English Spellings: A Study with Focus on Gender [PDF]
International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies, 2019 The aim of the current study was investigating EFL learners’ perceptions of using automatic spelling correction software for learning English spelling among male and female EFL learners.
Mehrak Rahimi +2 more
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Context-aware Stand-alone Neural Spelling Correction [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Existing natural language processing systems are vulnerable to noisy inputs resulting from misspellings. On the contrary, humans can easily infer the corresponding correct words from their misspellings and surrounding context. Inspired by this, we address the stand-alone spelling correction problem, which only corrects the spelling of each token ...
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A Chinese Spelling Check Framework Based on Reverse Contrastive Learning [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Chinese spelling check is a task to detect and correct spelling mistakes in Chinese text. Existing research aims to enhance the text representation and use multi-source information to improve the detection and correction capabilities of models, but does not pay too much attention to improving their ability to distinguish between confusable words ...
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Spelling convention sensitivity in neural language models [PDF]
EACL Findings 2023, 2023 We examine whether large neural language models, trained on very large collections of varied English text, learn the potentially long-distance dependency of British versus American spelling conventions, i.e., whether spelling is consistently one or the other within model-generated strings.
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LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal, 2023 Competence in a certain language including correct spelling is very crucial for successful communication. Spelling mistakes may convey a totally different message and cause disastrous consequences.
Khaled Khader Oraby +1 more
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Lenient Evaluation of Japanese Speech Recognition: Modeling Naturally Occurring Spelling Inconsistency [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Word error rate (WER) and character error rate (CER) are standard metrics in Speech Recognition (ASR), but one problem has always been alternative spellings: If one's system transcribes adviser whereas the ground truth has advisor, this will count as an error even though the two spellings really represent the same word.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 This research examined the relations among Cantonese phonological awareness, invented spelling in Pinyin (in Mandarin), and invented English spelling in 29 first language (L1) and 34 s language (L2) Cantonese-speaking second and third graders in Hong ...
Yanling Zhou, Catherine McBride
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