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Learning Non-linguistic Skills without Sacrificing Linguistic Proficiency [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The field of Math-NLP has witnessed significant growth in recent years, motivated by the desire to expand LLM performance to the learning of non-linguistic notions (numerals, and subsequently, arithmetic reasoning). However, non-linguistic skill injection typically comes at a cost for LLMs: it leads to catastrophic forgetting of core linguistic skills,
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Putting climate change at the heart of education: Is England's strategy a placebo for policy?
British Educational Research Journal, Volume 48, Issue 6, Page 1083-1101, December 2022., 2022 Abstract In this paper we present an analysis of the sustainability and climate change strategy for education and children's services systems in England, produced by the Department for Education. Using critical discourse analysis, we juxtapose qualitative data collected from >200 youth teachers and teacher educators in the context of co‐creating a ...
Lynda Dunlop, Elizabeth A. C. Rushton
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Generating semantic maps through multidimensional scaling: linguistic applications and theory [PDF]
, 2020 This paper reports on the state-of-the-art in application of multidimensional scaling (MDS) techniques to create semantic maps in linguistic research. MDS refers to a statistical technique that represents objects (lexical items, linguistic contexts, languages, etc.) as points in a space so that close similarity between the objects corresponds to close ...
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Educators' positive practices with refugee pupils at two schools in England
British Educational Research Journal, Volume 48, Issue 6, Page 1125-1144, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Extensive evidence indicates that education is an integral part of the settling in process for refugee and asylum‐seeking children. Furthermore, it has been suggested that positive teaching practice with refugee pupils should be asset‐based and holistic in nature. The present study examines educators' positive practices with refugee pupils and
Caitlin M. Prentice
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A logical Reconstruction of Leonard Bloomfield's Linguistic Theory [PDF]
, 2012 In this work we present a logical reconstruction of Leonard Bloom- field’s theory of structural linguistics. First, the central notions of this theory are analyzed and discussed.
Meier, Thomas
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Syntactic Structure from Deep Learning [PDF]
, 2020 Modern deep neural networks achieve impressive performance in engineering applications that require extensive linguistic skills, such as machine translation. This success has sparked interest in probing whether these models are inducing human-like grammatical knowledge from the raw data they are exposed to, and, consequently, whether they can shed new ...
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Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 3 [PDF]
, 2014 In the three volumes of Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the editors guide the reader through a well-selected compendium of works, presenting a fresh look at contemporary linguistics.
Alexiou, Thomaï +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, Volume 48, Issue 6, Page 1145-1160, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Racism, as a covert but pervasive presence in teacher education in England, remains a major structural issue and its effects on student teachers who are Black and Asian are real and troubling. Their personal stories reveal multiple challenges and present empirical evidence that can usefully be analysed to examine their experience of daily ...
Diane Warner
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This paper contributes to the task of defining the relationship between the results of production and rating experiments in the context of language variation.
Anastasia Gerasimova +3 more
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Flowing Time: Emergentism and Linguistic Diversity
Philosophies, 2023 Humans are complex systems, ‘macro-entities’, whose existence, behaviour and consciousness stem out of the configurations of physical entities on the micro-level of the physical world.
Kasia M. Jaszczolt
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