Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji, 2017 Since 2015 there has been increased protest action by students at South African universities. One of the issues is decolonizing the curriculum. Academics have been re-thinking the curricula of various academic offerings.
Anne Baker
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The Musts and the Must-nots for Translators (A Glance at Principles of the Free Translation of Literary Texts from English to Persian) [PDF]
International Journal of Ethics and Society, 2021 Background: The present article tried to investigate the musts and the must-nots for translators. In other words, the present researcher did her best to take an analytic look at the principles of the free translation of literary texts from English to ...
Fatemeh Rakei
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Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2023 We present speculative sampling, an algorithm for accelerating transformer decoding by enabling the generation of multiple tokens from each transformer call.
Charlie Chen +5 more
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Translating emotion-related metaphors: A cognitive approach
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2016 The paper explores the existence of cognitive linguistics principles in translation of emotion-related metaphorical expressions. Cognitive linguists (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Lakoff, 1987) define metaphor as a mechanism used for understanding one ...
Hanić Jasmina +2 more
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A Teacher-Student Framework for Zero-Resource Neural Machine Translation [PDF]
, 2017 While end-to-end neural machine translation (NMT) has made remarkable progress recently, it still suffers from the data scarcity problem for low-resource language pairs and domains.
Chen, Yun +3 more
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StructGPT: A General Framework for Large Language Model to Reason over Structured Data [PDF]
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023 In this paper, we study how to improve the zero-shot reasoning ability of large language models~(LLMs) over structured data in a unified way. Inspired by the study on tool augmentation for LLMs, we develop an \emph{Iterative Reading-then-Reasoning~(IRR)}
Jinhao Jiang +5 more
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Terminology Development at Tertiary Institutions: A South African Perspective
Lexikos, 2014 There is a dire need in South Africa for multilingual polythematic terminology. Cur-rently no tertiary institution presents terminology theory and practice as a fully-fledged subject and there is also no sufficient mechanism for the training of ...
Mariëtta Alberts
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Teachers’ codeswitching in EFL classrooms: Functions and motivations
Cogent Education, 2022 Codeswitching, which has become the subject of much debate and controversy among different scholars due to its pros and cons, is commonly employed in English as foreign language (EFL) classrooms.
Arega Temesgen, Eyasu Hailu
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Bilingual Sentiment Embeddings: Joint Projection of Sentiment Across Languages [PDF]
, 2018 Sentiment analysis in low-resource languages suffers from a lack of annotated corpora to estimate high-performing models. Machine translation and bilingual word embeddings provide some relief through cross-lingual sentiment approaches.
Barnes, Jeremy +2 more
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Warm-Up as a Means of Fostering Target-Language Performance in a Particular English Class
Revista Romaneasca pentru Educatie Multidimensionala, 2019 The article concerns the problem of fostering future border guard officers’ target-language performance by means of warming-up activities. The aim of the article is to track and validate the influence of warming-up activities on the effectiveness of ...
Maiia Karpushyna +5 more
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